Abstract
In practical applications, robots are often required to handle payloads with unknown dynamics. This paper considers the path tracking control problem of a robot carrying an unknown payload. An adaptive control scheme is presented in which the uncertain dynamics of the payload is taken into account, and prior information about the payload's mass or inertia is not required. By introducing a generalized inner product, an alternative approach for stability analysis (rather than the more usual Lyapunov method) is established which proves the asymptotically stable control of the proposed strategy. © 1991.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 59-70 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Systems and Control Letters |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jul 1991 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Help from Dr. R.H. Middleton of the University of Newcastle is gratefully acknowledged.Funding
This work was partly supported by a Research Scholarship from the University of Newcastle in Australia.
Keywords
- adaptive path tracking
- generalized inner product
- Robotics
- unknown payload dynamics