ADAPTIVE FUZZY POSITION/FORCE CONTROL FOR A PLANAR TWO LINK CONSTRAINED FLEXIBLE MANIPULATOR

In this paper, a class of planar two link constrained flexible manipulators is discussed and a new adaptive fuzzy logic control scheme is presented to control the tip position and the contact force of the manipulators. Structural decomposition technique is utilized to simplify the MIMO fuzzy inference system, and gradient descent method is adopted to adjust the system parameters adaptively. Computer simulation results demonstrate that this new control scheme is reasonable and effective.