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How to control the unknown: Novel method for robotic manipulation

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January 10, 2017
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A simple, linear robot is easy to control. With known goals and a clear understanding of variables, a controller tells the robot the rules to follow. If button A is pressed, for example, pick up an item from the conveyor belt. The item can either be moved to a different belt, or disposed of completely.

A more complicated, nonlinear robot is more difficult. The rules change when neither the goals nor the variables are understood.

"The knowledge of system dynamics is completely unknown and system states are not available… therefore, it is desirable to design a novel control scheme that does not need the exact knowledge of system dynamics but only the input and output data measured during the operation of the system," said Dr. Zhijun Fu, a researcher in the department of mechanical engineering at Zhejiang University, China.

Fu and his research team published a paper describing this novel control scheme in IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (JAS).

The scientists first had to determine the system states in order to figure out how to control them. They implemented a neural network – an artificial brain capable of quick assessment and learning – to observe the system at multiple time scales and to update its information as it studies.

"We cannot apply existing actor-based methods to unknown nonlinear systems directly," Fu said, explaining the appeal of an observer-based method. An actor must be told what to do, while the observer watches the system to learn the requirements for optimal control.

Optimal control is the goal in most robotic systems. It's the budget of the system – how to achieve the goals at the lowest cost possible.

"The proposed method may be used [in] industrial systems with 'slow' and 'fast' dynamics, due to the presence of some… parameters, such as small time constants," Fu said.

Such variable dynamics can typically cost a system a lot, in terms of energy and resources. An observer-based method takes into account each type of parameter and adjusts ideally.

This method also accounts for a common system control problem: the overwhelming of actuators. Actuators, the physical sensors in automated machines, can become saturated with information and stop working properly. Since this control method accounts for input constraints (since only the input and output data are measured), the actuators avoid saturation.

Not all of the system control problems are solved, though.

"[In this paper,] we don't consider the state constraints problem," Fu said, referring to potential limitations that scientists may need to apply to a robotic system in some situations. "[Future] research will be dedicated to solving this problem."

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Z. J. Fu, W. F. Xie, S. Rakheja, and J. Ma, "Observer-based adaptive optimal control for unknown singularly perturbed nonlinear systems with input constraints," IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, Vol. 4, no.1, pp. 33-42, Jan. 2017.

IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (JAS) is a joint publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc (IEEE) and the Chinese Association of Automation. JAS publishes papers on original theoretical and experimental research and development in all areas of automation. The coverage of JAS includes but is not limited to: Automatic control/Artificial intelligence and intelligent control/Systems theory and engineering/Pattern recognition and intelligent systems/Automation engineering and applications/Information processing and information systems/Network based automation/Robotics/Computer-aided technologies for automation systems/Sensing and measurement/Navigation, guidance, and control.

To learn more about JAS, please visit: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6570654

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