The article discusses dynamic requirements for designing ground manipulator platforms that can be utilized to verify the performance of controllers developed for space manipulators. Dimensional analysis is used to formalize the dynamic equivalence conditions and control scaling laws between a given space manipulator and the ground manipulator to be designed, such that the space manipulator and the designed ground manipulator are dynamically equivalent. Given that, unlike its space counterpart, the ground manipulator may not have the complete six degrees of freedom for its base and it must function under the gravity effects, as well as manufacturing imprecisions in building the ground manipulator, the sensitivity of dynamic equivalence conditions to the abovementioned factors is analyzed. Furthermore, an error compensation scheme based on the feedback linearization technique is developed to make the closed-loop ground manipulator have similar joint movements to those of the space manipulator under its controller. As a result, ground-based verification experiments can be performed for the controllers that will operate on the space manipulator. The design of a ground manipulator with the error compensation scheme for a specific space manipulator is illustrated through simulations, and it is shown how the performance of a PID controller for the space manipulator can be verified using the designed ground manipulator.


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    Title :

    Control Verifications of Space Manipulators Using Ground Platforms


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    Publication date :

    2021-02-01


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    4025044 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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