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In this paper, the tracking control problem for 5 DOF surgical robot which is affected by tremor of surgeons' hand is considered. Mechanical modeling and dynamic analysis of a robotic arm in slave subsystem of a telesurgery system will be…
Existing works on control of tractor-trailers systems only consider the kinematics model without taking dynamics into account. Also, most of them treat the issue as a pure control theory problem whose solutions are difficult to implement.…
In this paper, we investigate the visual tracking problem for robotic systems without image-space velocity measurement, simultaneously taking into account the uncertainties of the camera model and the manipulator kinematics and dynamics. We…
This article presents a three-dimensional nonlinear trajectory tracking control strategy for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the presence of spatial constraints. As opposed to many existing control strategies, which do not consider…
We investigate energy-optimal control of robots with ultracapacitor based regenerative drive systems. Based on a previously introduced framework, a fairly generic model is considered for the robot and the drive system. An optimal control…
In this work we propose a family of trajectory tracking controllers for marine craft in the port-Hamiltonian (pH) framework using virtual differential passivity based control (v-dPBC). Two pH models of marine craft are considered, one in a…
Passivity-based control ensures system stability by leveraging dissipative properties and is widely applied in electrical and mechanical systems. Port-Hamiltonian systems (PHS), in particular, are well-suited for interconnection and damping…
This paper presents a novel method for directly incorporating user-defined control input saturations into the calculation of a control Lyapunov function (CLF)-based walking controller for a biped robot. Previous work by the authors has…
In this work, we introduce a novel gradient descent-based approach for optimizing control systems, leveraging a new representation of stable closed-loop dynamics as a function of two matrices i.e. the step size or direction matrix and value…
Nonlinear tracking control enabling a dynamical system to track a desired trajectory is fundamental to robotics, serving a wide range of civil and defense applications. In control engineering, designing tracking control requires complete…
In this paper, we propose a compliant motion control strategy for handling a single object by two similar industrial robots. The dynamics of the object carried by the two robots is assimilated to the dynamics of a mass-spring-damper system…
This paper presents a switched model reference admittance control framework to achieve safe and compliant human-robot collaboration through reference trajectory shaping. The proposed method generates variable admittance parameters according…
Robotic systems are frequently deployed in missions that are dull, dirty, and dangerous, where ensuring their safety is of paramount importance when designing stabilizing controllers to achieve their desired goals. This paper addresses the…
A Lyapunov-based method is presented for stabilizing and controlling of closed quantum systems. The proposed method is constructed upon a novel quantum Lyapunov function of the system state trajectory tracking error. A positive-definite…
This paper considers the prescribed performance control (PPC) of spacecraft attitude tracking under multiple physical constraints, focusing on the robust issues. A novel Barrier Lyapunov function is proposed to realize the…
This paper presents an approach towards guaranteed trajectory tracking for nonlinear control-affine systems subject to external disturbances based on robust control contraction metrics (CCM) that aims to minimize the $\mathcal L_\infty$…
In this paper, the attitude tracking problem is considered using the rotation matrices. Due to the inherent topological restriction, it is impossible to achieve global attractivity with any continuous attitude control system on $SO(3)$.…
Robotic laparoscopic grasper is a surgical tool with minimal invasion. In this robot, achieve goals like precise tracking, stability and disturbance rejection are very important. In this paper, first the stages of modeling and simulating of…
Saturations in control signal can challenge the stability proof of a feedback-linearization-based controller, even leading the system unstable [1]. Thus, several approaches are established to avoid reaching the saturation bound [2,3].…
Many robotic systems are underactuated, meaning not all degrees of freedom can be directly controlled due to lack of actuators, input constraints, or state-dependent actuation. This property, compounded by modeling uncertainties and…