Modeling of a Two Arm Flexible Robot in Gravity

중력장에서 두개의 탄성팔을 가지는 로보트의 모델링

This paper presents techniques used to model a two arm experimental robot. Both arms are compliant and the robot operates in a vertical plane and is therefore influenced by gravity. The robot is being built to study different control strategies for robots containing compliant members. The system is built with extremely flexible members. This limits the required bandwidth of the control electronics, and mimics the flexible motions that are observed for stiffer faster robots. The objective of this paper is to develop a reduced order model of the robot system and to experimentally validate the model. Validation requires that the model includes gravitational effects. Therefore, an assumed modes model is developed which facilitates modeling of gravitational effects. In order to select the order and mode shapes for the model, an analytical solution is derived for a linearized continuous model. This is compared to the assumed modes model to determine the number of mode shapes needed to model the system. The final model, which includes shortening effects, correlates very well with experimental results.

본 연구에서는 두개의 팔을 가지는 실험용 로보트를 모델링 하기위해 사용된 기법들을 제시한다. 로보트는 수직 평면상에서 움직이므로 중력의 영향을 받는다. 그리고 두팔은 모두 탄성을 가진다. 이 로보트는 탄성 멤버들을 가지는 로보트의 여 러 제어기법들을 연구하기위해 만들어졌다. 시스템의 특성들은 아주 유연한 멤버들 을 가지게끔 정해진다.이것은 제어를 위해 쓰이는 전자부품들에 요구되는 밴드폭을 제안하고, 탄성이 크고 빠른 로보트에서 관찰 되어지는 유연한 운동들을 흉내낸다.