Lightweight robots are known to be intrinsically elastic in their joints. The established classical approaches to control such systems are mostly based on motor-side coordinates since the joints are comparatively stiff. However, that inevitably introduces errors in the coordinates that actually matter: the ones on the link side. Here we present a new joint-torque controller that uses feedback of the link-side positions. Passivity during interaction with the environment is formally shown as well as asymptotic stability of the desired equilibrium in the regulation case. The performance of the control approach is experimentally validated on DLR’s new generation of lightweight robots, namely the SARA robot, which enables this step from motor-side-based to link-sided-based control due to sensors with higher resolution and improved sampling rate.


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    Title :

    Joint-Level Control of the DLR Lightweight Robot SARA



    Conference:

    2020 ; Las Vegas, NV, USA



    Publication date :

    2020-10-25


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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