Design of LMI-Based H$\infty$ Controller for Robot Manipulators

In this paper, we present new control method for robot manipulators. The design objective can be the implementation of minimax controller with H$_{\infty}$ performance via LMI approach to guarantee the robustness and to obtain the exact tracking performance for robot manipulators with system parameter uncertainty and exogenous disturbance. We show that the Algebraic Riccati equation (ARE) which is needed for the construction of H$_{\infty}$ controller can be recast into the Algebraic Riccati Inequality (ARI) and the optimal control gain can be obtained by convex optimization method. Then, we will apply the proposed controller to rigid robot manipulators for verifying the performance of our controller.