An Adaptive Neural Network Control Method for Robot Manipulators

In recent years the neural network known as a sort of the intelligent control strategy is used as a powerful tool for designing control system since it has learning ability. But it is difficult for neural network controllers to guarantee the stability of control systems. In this paper we try connecting a radial basis function network to an adaptive control strategy. Radial basis function networks are simpler and easier to handle than multilayer perceptrons. We use the radial basis function network to generate control input signals that are similar to the control inputs of adaptive control using linear reparameterization of the robot manipulator. We adopt the saturation function as an auxiliary controller. This paper also proves mathematically the stability of the control system under the existence of disturbances and modeling errors.