Robust Learning Control for Robot Manipulators With Random Initial Errors and Iteration-Varying Reference Trajectories

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an error-tracking iterative learning control scheme to tackle the position tracking problem for robot manipulators with random initial errors and iteration-varying reference trajectories. Different from general usual ones, the control strategy in our work is to drive system errors perfectly track the desired error trajectories over the whole time interval as the iteration number increases, by which, the position trajectory and velocity trajectory can respectively track their reference trajectories during the predefined part operation interval. For fulfilling the control design, a new construction method of desired error trajectories is presented to remove the perfect initial resetting condition, which must be satisfied in most traditional iterative learning control algorithms. The uncertainties and disturbances in the robotic system dynamics are compensated by the robust approach and iterative learning approach, combinedly.