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JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT MATERIAL SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES
Volume 34, Issue 2, Pages 123-137Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1045389X221099453
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Robotic arm actuation system; variable stiffness and variable damping; magnetorheological dampers; positioning control; overshoot; settling time
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This paper presents an innovative variable stiffness and variable damping magnetorheological (MR) actuation system to solve the overshoot and long settling time problems in the positioning control of robotic arms. By controlling the stiffness and damping of the VSVD unit, the system can reduce overshoot and settling time of the robotic arm with less energy consumption. Both numerical and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed VSVD actuation system is an effective solution for robotic arm positioning control problems.
Overshoot and long settling time are two common problems of the positioning control for robotic arms. To solve the positioning control problems, an innovative variable stiffness and variable damping (VSVD) magnetorheological (MR) actuation system for robotic arms was designed, prototyped and evaluated in this paper. The system can reduce the overshoot and settling time of the robotic arm with less energy consumption by controlling the stiffness and damping of its VSVD unit. A robotic arm with the VSVD actuation system was developed and prototyped. In order to evaluate the performance of the system, a step route and a customised route were designed for the robotic arm system to trace. Under these two routes, the positioning control performances of the VSVD robotic arm were evaluated numerically and experimentally with the control modes of uncontrolled, VD, VS and VSVD, respectively. Both the numerical and experimental results demonstrated that the VSVD control mode works best in general with less overshoot, settling time and energy consumption, indicating that the proposed VSVD actuation system can serve as a good candidate to solve the positioning control problems of robotic arms.
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