Active force control applied to a rigid robot arm

• Main Authors: Mailah, Musa, Hewit, J. R., Meeran, Sheik
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering 1996
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/8345/1/MusaMailah1996_ActiveForceControlApplied.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/8345/; http://portal.psz.utm.my/psz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=128&Itemid=305&PHPSESSID=81b664e998055f65b4ccff8f61bf7cb2

The paper presents the implementation of Active Force Control (AFC) strategy to control a rigid robot arm. The robustness and effectiveness of AFC as 'disturbance rejector' is demonstrated through a simulation study using MATLAB(R) and SIMULINK(r)* softare packages. The work is carried out...