Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for Robotic Surface Treatment Using Force Feedback
Luis Gracia, J. Ernesto Solanes, Pau Muñoz-Benavent, Jaime Valls Miro, Carlos Perez-Vidal, Josep Tornero
MECHATRONICS  (2018)
 ISSN:0957-4158  DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2018.04.008  - Vol. 52 pp. 102-118

Resumen:

This work presents a hybrid position-force control of robots in order to apply surface treatments such as pol- ishing, grinding, finishing, deburring, etc. The robot force control is designed using sliding mode concepts to benefit from robustness. In particular, the sliding mode force task is defined using equality constraints to attain the desired tool pressure on the surface, as well as to keep the tool orientation perpendicular to the surface. In order to deal with sudden changes in material stiffness, which are ultimately transferred to the polishing tool and can produce instability and compromise polishing performance, several adaptive switching gain laws are con- sidered and compared. Moreover, a lower priority tracking controller is defined to follow the desired reference trajectory on the surface being polished. Hence, deviations from the reference trajectory are allowed if such deviations are required to satisfy the constraints mentioned above. Finally, a third-level task is also considered for the case of redundant robots in order to use the remaining degrees of freedom to keep the manipulator close to the home configuration with safety in mind. The main advantages of the method are increased robustness and low computational cost. The applicability and effectiveness of the proposed approach are substantiated by ex- perimental results using a redundant 7R manipulator: the Rethink Robotics Sawyer collaborative robot.