Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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11002951 | Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing | 2019 | 14 Pages |
Abstract
Impedance control and specifically stiffness control are widely applied for physical human-robot interaction. The series elastic actuator (SEA) provides inherent compliance, safety and further benefits. This paper aims to improve the stiffness control performance of a cable-driven SEA. Existing impedance controllers were designed within the full frequency domain, though human-robot interaction commonly falls in the low frequency range. We enhance the stiffness rendering performance under formulated constrains of passivity, actuator limitation, disturbance attenuation, noise rejection at their specific frequency ranges. Firstly, we reformulate this multiple frequency-band optimization problem into the Hâ synthesis framework. Then, the performance goals are quantitatively characterized by respective restricted frequency-domain specifications as norm bounds. Further, a structured controller is directly synthesized to satisfy all the competing performance requirements. Both simulation and experimental results showed that the produced controller enabled good interaction performance for each desired stiffness varying from 0 to 1 times of the physical spring constant. Compared with the passivity-based PID method, the proposed Hâ synthesis method achieved more accurate and robust stiffness control performance with guaranteed passivity.
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Authors
Ningbo Yu, Wulin Zou, Yubo Sun,