This paper proposes a novel control scheme for precise path tracking control in cable driven parallel robots (CDPRs) with axially-flexible cables, with particular focus to the challenging case of cable suspended parallel robots (CSPRs). To handle model nonlinearities while ensuring small computational effort, a controller made by two sequential control actions is developed. The first term is a position-dependent, model predictive control (MPC) with embedded integrator to compute the optimal cable tensions ensuring accurate path tracking and fulfilling the feasibility constraints; bounds on the feasible tensions are also included. The second control term transforms the optimal tensions into the commanded motor torques, and hence currents, that are evaluated through the kinetostatic model of the electric motors used for winding and unwinding the cables. Control design is performed through the robot dynamics model, formulated with the assumption of rigid cables. Moreover, the proposed control strategy is presented in two different architectures, collocated control and noncollocated control. Flexibility is handled by penalizing large tension variations in the cost function adopted in the controller design, plus some hard constraints on the maximum tension derivatives. These features, together with the embedding of the integrator within the MPC formulation, ensure smooth control tensions that allow handling the axial flexibility of the cables, although it is not explicitly considered in the controller design.To assess the performances of the proposed control algorithm, a kinematically-determined robot with a suspended, lumped end-effector is simulated by also adopting very flexible cables. Additionally, a simplified dynamic model of the electrical dynamics and the sensor quantization are included to provide a realistic representation of the real environments. The results, together with the fair comparison with a benchmark, corroborate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, its robustness, and its feasibility in ...


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    Title :

    Model predictive control for path tracking in cable driven parallel robots with flexible cables: collocated vs. noncollocated control



    Publication date :

    2023-01-01



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    629



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