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IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS LETTERS
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages 1837-1842Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/LCSYS.2021.3134165
Keywords
Pistons; Soft robotics; Robots; Backstepping; Aerodynamics; Actuators; Force; Control applications; PID control; robotics
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This study proposes a model-based control strategy for pneumatically-actuated soft robots. By establishing a model that describes the relationship between the robot's state, acting fluidic pressure, and piston dynamics, the backstepping control method can be applied to non-linear feedback coupling systems. The specialized application example is a robot with piecewise constant curvature.
Actuators' dynamics have been so far mostly neglected when devising feedback controllers for continuum soft robots since the problem under the direct actuation hypothesis is already quite hard to solve. Directly considering actuation would have made the challenge too complex. However, these effects are, in practice, far from being negligible. The present work focuses on model-based control of piston-driven pneumatically-actuated soft robots. We propose a model of the relationship between the robot's state, the acting fluidic pressure, and the piston dynamics, which is agnostic to the chosen model for the soft system dynamics. We show that backstepping is applicable even if the feedback coupling of the outer on the inner subsystem is not linear. Thus, we introduce a general model-based control strategy based on backstepping for soft robots actuated by fluidic drive. As an example, we derive a specialized version for a robot with piecewise constant curvature.
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