An adaptive link position tracking controller for rigid-link flexible-joint robots without velocity measurements

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 412-427

  Lim, Ser Yong ^a   Dawson, Darren M ^b   Hu, Jun ^b   De Queiroz, Marcio S ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FILTERS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; PERFORMANCE; SENSORS; TORQUE;

ADAPTIVE LINK POSITION TRACKING CONTROLLER; RIGID LINK FLEXIBLE JOINT ROBOTS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 0031167409     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3477.584949     Document Type: Article

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