Journal of Applied Mathematics

Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 920260, 19 pages

doi:10.1155/2012/920260

Research Article

On Robust Hybrid Force/Motion Control Strategies Based on Actuator Dynamics for Nonholonomic Mobile Manipulators

Yongxin Zhu¹ and Liping Fan1,2

¹School of Microelectronics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

²School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China

Received 1 March 2012; Accepted 25 May 2012

Academic Editor: Weihai Zhang

Copyright © 2012 Yongxin Zhu and Liping Fan. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract.

Robust force/motion control strategies are presented for mobile manipulators under both holonomic and nonholonomic constraints in the presence of uncertainties and disturbances. The controls are based on structural knowledge of the dynamics of the robot, and the actuator dynamics is also taken into account. The proposed control is robust not only to structured uncertainty such as mass variation but also to unstructured one such as disturbances. The system stability and the boundness of tracking errors are proved using Lyapunov stability theory. The proposed control strategies guarantee that the system motion converges to the desired manifold with prescribed performance. Simulation results validate that not only the states of the system asymptotically converge to the desired trajectory, but also the constraint force asymptotically converges to the desired force.

1. Introduction

Mobile manipulators refer to robotic manipulators mounted on mobile platforms. Such systems combine the advantages of mobile platforms and robotic arms and reduce their drawbacks [1–4]. For instance, the mobile platform extends the arm workspace, whereas the arm offers much operational functionality. Applications for such systems could be found in mining, construction, forestry, planetary exploration, teleoperation, and military [5–11].

Mobile manipulators possess complex and strongly coupled dynamics of mobile platforms and manipulators [12–16]. A control approach by nonlinear feedback linearization was presented for the mobile platform so that the manipulator is always positioned at the preferred configurations measured by its manipulability [17]. In [14], the effect of the dynamic interaction on the tracking performance of a mobile manipulator was studied, and nonlinear feedback control for the mobile manipulator was developed to compensate the dynamic interaction. In [18], a basic framework for the coordination and control of vehicle-arm systems was presented, which consists of two basic task-oriented control: end-effector task control and platform self-posture control. The standard definition of manipulability was generalized to the case of mobile manipulators, and the optimization of criteria inherited from manipulability considerations were given to generate the controls of the system when its end-effector motion was imposed [19]. In [20], a unified model for mobile manipulator was derived, and nonlinear feedback was applied to linearize and decouple the model, and decoupled force/position control of the end-effector along the same direction for mobile manipulators was proposed and applied to nonholonomic cart pushing. The previously mentioned literature concerning with control of the mobile manipulator requires the precise information on the dynamics of the mobile manipulator; there may be some difficulty in implementing them on the real system in practical applications.

Different researchers have investigated adaptive controls to deal with dynamics uncertainty of mobile manipulators. Adaptive neural-network- (NN-) based controls for the arm and the base had been proposed for the motion control of a mobile manipulator [21, 22]; each NN control output comprises a linear control term and a compensation term for parameter uncertainty and disturbances. Adaptive control was proposed for trajectory/force control of mobile manipulators subjected to holonomic and nonholonomic constraints with unknown inertia parameters [23, 24], which ensures the state of the system to asymptotically converge to the desired trajectory and force. The principal limitation associated with these schemes is that controllers are designed at the velocity input level or torque input level, and the actuator dynamics are excluded.

As demonstrated in [25–27], actuator dynamics constitute an important component of the complete robot dynamics, especially in the case of high-velocity movement and highly varying loads. Many control methods have therefore been developed to take into account the effects of actuator dynamics (see, e.g., [28–30]). However, the literature is sparse on the control of the nonholonomic mobile manipulators including the actuator dynamics. In most of the research works for controlling mobile manipulators, joint torques are control inputs though in reality joints are driven by actuators (e.g., DC motors), and therefore using actuator input voltages as control inputs is more realistic. To this effect, actuator dynamics is combined with the mobile manipulator's dynamics in this paper.

This paper addresses the problem of stabilization of force/motion control for a class of mobile manipulator systems with both holonomic and nonholonomic constraints in the parameter uncertainties and external disturbances.

Unlike the force/motion control presented in [31–37], which is proposed for the mechanical systems subject to either holonomic or nonholonomic constraints, in our paper, the control is to deal with the system subject to both holonomic and nonholonomic constraints. After the dynamics based on decoupling force/motion is first presented, the robust motion/force control is proposed for the system under the consideration of the actuator dynamics uncertainty to complete the trajectory/force tracking. The paper has main contributions listed as follows.

(i)Decoupling robust motion/force control strategies are presented for mobile manipulator with both holonomic and nonholonomic constraints in the parameter uncertainties and external disturbances, and nonregressor-based control design is developed in a unified manner without imposing any restriction on the system dynamics.(ii)The actuators (e.g., DC motor) dynamics of both the mobile platform and the arm are integrated with mobile manipulator dynamics and kinematics so that the actuator input voltages are the control inputs thus making the system more realistic.

Simulation results are described in detail that show the effectiveness of the proposed control law.

The rest of the paper is organized as follows. The system description of mobile manipulator subject to nonholonomic constraints and holonomic is briefly described in Section 2. Problem statement for the system control is given in Section 4. The main results of robust adaptive control design are presented in Section 5. Simulation studies are presented by comparison between the proposed robust control with nonrobust control in Section 6. Concluding remarks are given in Section 7.

2. System Description

Consider an DOF mobile manipulator with nonholonomic mobile base. The constrained mechanical system can be described as

where denote the generalized coordinates; is the symmetric bounded positive definite inertia matrix; denotes the Centripetal and Coriolis torques; is the gravitational torque vector; denotes the external disturbances; is the control inputs; is a full rank input transformation matrix and is assumed to be known because it is a function of fixed geometry of the system; denotes the vector of constraint forces; is Jacobian matrix; is Lagrange multipliers corresponding to the nonholonomic and holonomic constraints.

The generalized coordinates may be separated into two sets , where describes the generalized coordinates for the mobile platform, is the coordinates of the manipulator, and .

Assumption 2.1 (see [38–40]). The mobile manipulator is subject to known nonholonomic constraints.

Assumption 2.2. The system (2.8) is subjected to independent holonomic constraints, which can be written as

where is full rank, then .

Remark 2.3. In actual implementation, we can adopt the methods of producing enough friction between the wheels of the mobile platform and the ground such that this assumption holds [41–43].

The vehicle is subjected to nonholonomic constraints, the nonintegrable and independent velocity constraints can be expressed as

where is the kinematic constraint matrix which is assumed to have full rank . In the paper, the vehicle is assumed to be completely nonholonomic. The effect of the constraints can be viewed as a restriction of the dynamics on the manifold as

The generalized constraint forces for the nonholonomic constraints can be given by

Assume that the annihilator of the codistribution spanned by the covector fields is a -dimensional smooth nonsingular distribution on . This distribution is spanned by a set of smooth and linearly independent vector fields ; that is, , which satisfy, in local coordinates, the following relation:

where . Note that is of full rank. Constraints (2.3) imply the existence of vector [44], such that

Considering the nonholonomic constraints (2.3) and its derivative, the dynamics of mobile manipulator can be expressed as

From Assumption 2.2, the holonomic constraint force can be converted to the joint space as . Hence, the holonomic constraint on the robot’s end effector can be viewed as restricting only the dynamics on the constraint manifold defined by . The vector can be further rearranged and partitioned into ;   describes the constrained motion of the manipulator, and denotes the remaining joint variable. Then,

From [45], it could be concluded is the function of , that is, , and we have , where , , and , satisfy the relationship

The dynamic model (2.8), when it restricted to the constraint surface, can be transformed into the reduced model:

where

Multiplying by both sides of (2.11), we can obtain

The force multipliers can be obtained by (2.11):

where , , , .

Property 1. The matrix is symmetric and positive definite.

Property 2. The matrix is skew symmetric.

Property 3 (see [46]). For holonomic systems, matrices , are uniformly bounded and uniformly continuous if is uniformly bounded and continuous, respectively.

Property 4. There exist some finite positive constants and finite nonnegative constant such that for all , for all , , , , and .

3. Actuator Dynamics

The joints of the mobile manipulators are assumed to be driven by DC motors. Consider the following notations used to model a DC motor: represents the control input voltage vector; denotes an -element vector of motor armature current; is a positive definite diagonal matrix which characterizes the electromechanical conversion between current and torque; , , , represent the equivalent armature inductances, resistances, back EMF constants, angular velocities of the driving motors, respectively; denotes the gear ratio for joints; are the torque exerted by the motor. In order to apply the DC servomotors for actuating an -DOF mobile manipulator, assuming no energy losses, a relationship between the th joint velocity and the motor shaft velocity can be presented as with the gear ratio of the th joint , the th motor shaft torque , and the th joint torque . The motor shaft torque is proportional to the motor current . The back EMF is proportional to the angular velocity of the motor shaft; then we can obtain

In the actuator dynamics (3.1), the relationship between and is dependent on the type of mechanical system and can be generally expressed as

The structure of depends on the mechanical systems to be controlled. For instance, in the simulation example, a two-wheel differential drive 2-DOF mobile manipulator is used to illustrate the control design. From [47], we have

where and are the angular velocities of the two wheels, respectively, and is the linear velocity of the mobile platform, as shown in Figure 1. Since , we have

where and are shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: The 2-DOF mobile manipulator.

Eliminating from the actuator dynamics (3.1) by substituting (3.2), one obtains

Until now we have brought the kinematics (2.3), dynamics (3.5), (3.6) and actuator dynamics (3.7) of the considered nonholonomic system from the generalized coordinate system to feasible independent generalized velocities without violating the nonholonomic constraint (2.3).

4. Problem Statement

Since the system is subjected to the nonholonomic constraint (2.3) and holonomic constraint (2.2), the states , , are not independent. By a proper partition of , is uniquely determined by . Therefore, it is not necessary to consider the control of .

Given a desired motion trajectory and a desired constraint force , or, equivalently, a desired multiplier , the trajectory and force tracking control is to determine a control law such that for any , , , asymptotically converge to a manifold specified as where

The controller design will consist of two stages: (i) a virtual adaptive control input is designed so that the subsystems (3.5) and (3.6) converge to the desired values, and (ii) the actual control input is designed in such a way that . In turn, this allows and to be stabilized to the origin.

Assumption 4.1. The desired reference trajectory is assumed to be bounded and uniformly continuous and has bounded and uniformly continuous derivatives up to the second order. The desired Lagrangian multiplier is also bounded and uniformly continuous.

5. Robust Control Design

5.1. Kinematic and Dynamic Subsystems

Let ,  ,   with ,  . A decoupled control scheme is introduced to control generalized position and constraint force separatively.

Consider the virtual control input is designed as

Let the control be as the form

where , and , and . Then, (2.13) and (2.14) can be changed to

Consider the following control laws:

where ; ; are positive definite. can be defined as follows: if , , else , is a small value, is a time-varying positive function converging to zero as , such that . There are many choices for that satisfies the condition.

5.2. Control Design at the Actuator Level

Till now, we have designed a virtual controller and for kinematic and dynamic subsystems. tending to can be guaranteed, if the actual input control signal of the dynamic system be of the form which can be realized from the actuator dynamics by the design of the actual control input . On the basis of the above statements we can conclude that if is designed in such a way that tends to , then and .

Defining and substituting and of (3.7) one gets

The actuator parameters , , , and are considered unknown for control design; however, there exist , , and , such that

Consider the robust control law

where

5.3. Stability Analysis for the System

Theorem 5.1. Consider the mechanical system described by (2.1), (2.3), and (2.2); using the control law (5.5) and (5.7), the following hold for any :

(i) and converge to a set containing the origin with the convergence rate as ; (ii) and asymptotically converge to as ;(iii) and are bounded for all .

Proof. (i) By combing (3.5) with (5.5), the closed-loop system dynamics can be rewritten as

Substituting (5.5) into (5.13), the closed-loop dynamic equation is obtained:

where .

Consider the function

Then, differentiating with respect to time, we have

From Property 1, we have . By using Property 2, the time derivative of along the trajectory of (5.14) is

when ; therefore,

Differentiating with respect to time, using (3.7), one has

Substituting in (5.19) by the control law (5.11), one has

Integrating (5.18) and (5.20), can be expressed as

We can obtain

where

The term on the right-hand side (5.22) can always be negative definite by choosing suitable and . Since is positive definite, we only need to choose and such that is positive definite. Therefore, and can always be chosen to satisfy

If , it is easy to obtain . , , and converge to a set containing the origin with .

(ii) is bounded, which implies that . From , it can be obtained that . As we have established , from Assumption 4.1, we conclude that and .

Therefore, all the signals on the right hand side of (5.14) are bounded, and we can conclude that and therefore are bounded. Thus, as can be obtained. Consequently, we have , as . It follows that as .

(iii) Substituting the control (5.5) and (5.7) into the reduced order dynamic system model (5.4) yields

Since when , (3.7) could be changed as

Therefore, and in the force space; (5.20) could be changed as

Since is bounded, , we can obtain as . The proof is completed by noticing that , , and are bounded. Moreover, , and , , the right-hand side terms of (5.25), tend uniformly asymptotically to zero; then it follows that , then .

Since , , , , , , and are all bounded, it is easy to conclude that is bounded from (5.2).

6. Simulations

To verify the effectiveness of the proposed control algorithm, let us consider a 2-DOF manipulator mounted on two-wheels-driven mobile base [23] shown in Figure 1. The mobile manipulator is subjected to the following constraints: . Using Lagrangian approach, we can obtain the standard form with , , , and :

Let the desired trajectory and the end effector be subject to the geometric constraint , and , , , .

The trajectory and force tracking control problem is to design control law such that (4.1) holds and all internal signals are bounded.

In the simulation, we assume the parameter , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . The disturbance on the mobile base is set and . By Theorem 5.1, the control gains are selected as , , and , , , , , , . The disturbance on the mobile base is set and . The simulation results for motion/force are shown in Figures 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. The desired currents tracking and input voltages on the motors are shown in Figures 5, 6, 8, and 9. The simulation results show that the trajectory and force tracking errors asymptotically tend to zero, which validate the effectiveness of the control law in Theorem 5.1.

Figure 2: The positions of the joints.

Figure 3: The velocities of the joints.

Figure 4: The torques of the joints.

Figure 5: Tracking the desired currents.

Figure 6: The input voltages.

Figure 7: The constraint force.

Figure 8: Tracking the desired current of the joint 2.

Figure 9: The input voltage of the joint 2.

7. Conclusion

In this paper, effective robust control strategies have been presented systematically to control the holonomic constrained nonholonomic mobile manipulator in the presence of uncertainties and disturbances, and actuator dynamics is considered in the robust control. All control strategies have been designed to drive the system motion converge to the desired manifold and at the same time guarantee the boundedness of the constrained force. The proposed controls are nonregressor based and require no information on the system dynamics. Simulation studies have verified the effectiveness of the proposed controller.

Acknowledgment

The authors are thankful to the Ministry of Science and Technology of China as the paper is partially sponsored by the National High-Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) (no. 2009AA012201).

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