Adaptive coordinating control of multiple manipulators for tasks in contact with dynamic environment situations

Abstract

The adaptive control of multiple robot manipulators handling a dynamic object motion of which is constrained by the dynamic environment, when object and/or environment parameters are not known in advance, is proposed. It may be implemented when: (i) there is no good understanding of all physical effects incorporated in the multiple robots/object/environment system; (ii) the parameters of the system are not precisely known; (iii) the system parameters do vary in a known regions about their nominal values.