Adaptive event-triggered robust tracking control of soft robots

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Main Authors: Ma, Renjie, Qu, Ziyao, Hu, Zhijian, Zhao, Dong, Polycarpou, Marios M.
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Published: 2025
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author Ma, Renjie
Qu, Ziyao
Hu, Zhijian
Zhao, Dong
Polycarpou, Marios M.
author_facet Ma, Renjie
Qu, Ziyao
Hu, Zhijian
Zhao, Dong
Polycarpou, Marios M.
contents Soft robots manufactured with flexible materials can be highly compliant and adaptive to their surroundings, which facilitates their application in areas such as dexterous manipulation and environmental exploration. This paper aims at investigating the tracking control problem for soft robots under uncertainty such as unmodeled dynamics and external disturbance. First, we establish a novel switching function and design the compensated tracking error dynamics by virtue of the command filter. Then, based on the backstepping methodology, the virtual controllers and the adaptive logic estimating the supremum of uncertainty impacts are developed for synthesizing an event-triggered control strategy. In addition, the uniformed finite-time stability certification is derived for different scenarios of the switching function. Finally, we perform a case study of a soft robot to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control algorithm.
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spellingShingle Adaptive event-triggered robust tracking control of soft robots
Ma, Renjie
Qu, Ziyao
Hu, Zhijian
Zhao, Dong
Polycarpou, Marios M.
Systems and Control
Robotics
Soft robots manufactured with flexible materials can be highly compliant and adaptive to their surroundings, which facilitates their application in areas such as dexterous manipulation and environmental exploration. This paper aims at investigating the tracking control problem for soft robots under uncertainty such as unmodeled dynamics and external disturbance. First, we establish a novel switching function and design the compensated tracking error dynamics by virtue of the command filter. Then, based on the backstepping methodology, the virtual controllers and the adaptive logic estimating the supremum of uncertainty impacts are developed for synthesizing an event-triggered control strategy. In addition, the uniformed finite-time stability certification is derived for different scenarios of the switching function. Finally, we perform a case study of a soft robot to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control algorithm.
title Adaptive event-triggered robust tracking control of soft robots
topic Systems and Control
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09523