Simultaneous Position-and-Stiffness Control of Underactuated Antagonistic Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots
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| author | Yi, Bowen Fan, Yeman Liu, Dikai Romero, Jose Guadalupe |
| author_facet | Yi, Bowen Fan, Yeman Liu, Dikai Romero, Jose Guadalupe |
| contents | Continuum robots have gained widespread popularity due to their inherent compliance and flexibility, particularly their adjustable levels of stiffness for various application scenarios. Despite efforts to dynamic modeling and control synthesis over the past decade, few studies have incorporated stiffness regulation into their feedback control design; however, this is one of the initial motivations to develop continuum robots. This paper addresses the crucial challenge of controlling both the position and stiffness of underactuated continuum robots actuated by antagonistic tendons. We begin by presenting a rigid-link dynamical model that can analyze the open-loop stiffening of tendon-driven continuum robots. Based on this model, we propose a novel passivity-based position-and-stiffness controller that adheres to the non-negative tension constraint. Comprehensive experiments on our continuum robot validate the theoretical results and demonstrate the efficacy and precision of this approach. |
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| spellingShingle | Simultaneous Position-and-Stiffness Control of Underactuated Antagonistic Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots Yi, Bowen Fan, Yeman Liu, Dikai Romero, Jose Guadalupe Robotics Systems and Control Continuum robots have gained widespread popularity due to their inherent compliance and flexibility, particularly their adjustable levels of stiffness for various application scenarios. Despite efforts to dynamic modeling and control synthesis over the past decade, few studies have incorporated stiffness regulation into their feedback control design; however, this is one of the initial motivations to develop continuum robots. This paper addresses the crucial challenge of controlling both the position and stiffness of underactuated continuum robots actuated by antagonistic tendons. We begin by presenting a rigid-link dynamical model that can analyze the open-loop stiffening of tendon-driven continuum robots. Based on this model, we propose a novel passivity-based position-and-stiffness controller that adheres to the non-negative tension constraint. Comprehensive experiments on our continuum robot validate the theoretical results and demonstrate the efficacy and precision of this approach. |
| title | Simultaneous Position-and-Stiffness Control of Underactuated Antagonistic Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots |
| topic | Robotics Systems and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03865 |