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T. Bajd, M. Mihelj, J. Lenarčič, A. Stanovnik, M. Munih, Robotics, Springer, 2010

ROBOT CONTROL

T. Bajd and M. Mihelj


• Robot control deals with computation of the forces or torques which must be generated by the actuators in order to successfully accomplish the robot task.

• The robot task can be – execution of the motion in a free space, where position control

is performed, or – in contact with the environment, where control of the contact

force is required.• The choice of the control method depends on

– the robot task,– the mechanical structure of the robot mechanism.

• Robot control usually takes place in the world coordinate frame, which is defined by the user and is called also the coordinate frame of the robot task.

Robot control


General control approach

End-effector pose

Position Orientation

RPY notation of the orientation


• Control loop is closed separately for each particular degree of freedom

• Less suitable for robotic systems characterized by nonlinear and time varying behavior

• Position error computation– Reference positions– Measured robot joint positions– Position error

PD position control


• Control law; computation of control variable (torque, velocity)

• Actuation of robot motors is proportional to the error• Velocity feedback loop introduces damping into the system• Velocity error can be introduced into the control law (faster

system response)

• leading to

PD position control


Block schemes


• Robot inverse dynamic model

• In static conditions can be simplified to

• Estimated gravity term part of the control law

PD position control with gravity compensation


PD position control with gravity compensation


• Robot inverse dynamic model

• Robot forward dynamic model

• Define new variable

• leading to

Robot dynamic model


• Assume that the robot dynamic model is known– inertial matrix is an approximation of real values ,– represents an approximation of

• Consider the following control law

• where input y will be defined later.

Inverse dynamics control


Inverse dynamics control block scheme

y represents computed acceleration in joint space


• position error

• velocity error

• control law

• error dynamics

PD position control


Controller block scheme


• Definition of pose error

• Control based on the transposed Jacobian matrix

• Control based on the inverse Jacobian matrix

Robot control in external coordinates


• End-effector position

• Differential kinematics

Manipulator Jacobian matrix

Jacobian matrix


• Jacobian matrix

Manipulator Jacobian matrix


• Inverse velocity relation

• For a square matrix of dimension two

• Inverse velocity relation

• Inverse Jacobian matrix equals

Inverse Jacobian matrix


• Robot in contact with the environment (contact force f)• Find resulting joint torques

• In matrix form

Transposed Jacobian matrix


• Velocity relation

• Force/torque relation

• Transposed matrix

• Force/torque relation




• Pose error in external coordinates

• Control law formulation (control variable in external coordinates)

• Control variable in joint space

Transposed Jacobian matrix based Control



• Relation for small displacements

• Relation for small pose errors

• Control law in joint space

Inverse Jacobian matrix based Control


PD position control with gravity compensation in external coordinates• Control law


• Inverse dynamics


• Acceleration relation

• Computed acceleration for external coordinates control

Inverse dynamics control in external coordinates


• Pose error

• Velocity error

• Acceleration error

• Error dynamics

• Control law

Inverse dynamics control in external coordinates


Inverse dynamics control in external coordinates – block scheme


• control of end-effector desired pose while the robot is in contact with the environment

– case of robot assembly (inserting a peg into a hole)

– robot movement assures minimal contact force during action

• robot end-effector exerts a predetermined force on the environment

– case of machining parts with robot (grinding)

– robot movement depends on the difference between the desired and the actual contact force.

Control of contact force with environment


• Dynamic model with contact force

• Define new variable

• leading to

Robot dynamics with contact

result of interaction with the environment


• Inverse dynamics with contact

• Forward dynamics with contact

• Control law

Inverse dynamics control with contact


• Force control is based on position control

• Reference values for acceleration, velocity and pose are computed from force error

Force control


• Force error

• Predefined manipulator behavior via inertia and damping matrices and

• Reference trajectory

Force control


• Parallel composition assumes force control in certain direction and pose control in other directions

Parallel composition