{"title":"HIL test bench to test anti-swing fuzzy control of an overhead crane","authors":"M. Carmeli, M. Mauri","doi":"10.1109/ICMECH.2013.6519136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMECH.2013.6519136","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an anti-swing fuzzy control system for an overhead crane. It focuses on industrial crane with the aim of minimizing load swinging to avoid safety problems. Both speed and position control scheme have been considered and two different solutions have been proposed. The results have been validated during an experimental phase using an innovative real time test bench.","PeriodicalId":448152,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM)","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115395616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A fuzzy programming method for optimization of autonomous logistics objects","authors":"A. Mehrsai, K. Thoben, Hamid Karimi","doi":"10.1109/ICMECH.2013.6518560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMECH.2013.6518560","url":null,"abstract":"Recently several studies have explored the realization of autonomous control in production and logistic operations. In doing so, it has been tried to transmit the merit of decision-making from central controllers with offline decisions to decentralized controllers with local and real-time decision makings. However, this mission has still some drawbacks in practice. Lack of global optimization is one of them, i.e., the lost chain between the autonomous decentralized decisions at operational level and the centralized mathematical optimization with offline manner at tactical and strategic levels. This distinction can be reasonably solved by considering fuzzy parameters in mathematical programming to meet the required tolerances for autonomous objects at operational level. This claim is recommended and partially experimented in this paper. An assembly scenario is modeled by a discrete-event simulation, in which autonomous pallets carry products throughout the system. This scenario is optimized with regard to its objectives in a simulation, while fuzzy parameters in optimization programming can consider autonomous decisions done at operational level.","PeriodicalId":448152,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM)","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115219885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Visual feedback control based on optical flow vector field for biped walking robot","authors":"N. Oda, Junichi Yoneda","doi":"10.1109/ICMECH.2013.6519116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMECH.2013.6519116","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents a visual feedback control using optical flow vectors detected from camera image for biped walking robot. The authors have proposed the vision-based stabilization control for walking motion in the past research. In the approach, the zero moment point (ZMP) is related with the visual target position in the field of camera view, and the ZMP stabilizer using rotational motion around center of gravity is designed by image-based motion controller. For more improved performance of the motion stability, the optical flow field of the camera image is additionally employed for generating the recovery moment of modifying the ZMP, and it enable quick and stable recovery of ZMP against the disturbances. The validity of the proposed method is evaluated by several experimental results.","PeriodicalId":448152,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126755056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Souichi Toy Ama, Yousuke Okado, Y. Maeda, M. Iwasaki, H. Hirai
{"title":"Adaptive deadbeat feedforward compensation for robust positioning performance against plant perturbations","authors":"Souichi Toy Ama, Yousuke Okado, Y. Maeda, M. Iwasaki, H. Hirai","doi":"10.1109/ICMECH.2013.6519122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMECH.2013.6519122","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an adaptive feedforward (FF) compensation technique on the basis of the deadbeat control framework for the fast and precise positioning of mechatronic systems. Plant perturbations due to temperature variations or aging in mechanisms and/or actuators generally deteriorate the positioning performance with response variations. A robust controller design against the perturbations, therefore, is one of important issues for industrial applications. In this research, an adaptive deadbeat FF control approach is applied to provide the robustness against the plant parameter perturbations due to temperature variations. The proposed approach identifies the parameters in on-line manner using an adaptive identification system, and then, redesigns the deadbeat FF controller according to the identified parameters to achieve the nominal performance under different temperature conditions. Effectiveness of the proposed approach has been verified by numerical simulations using a prototype of galvano scanners.","PeriodicalId":448152,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128256622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yevgen Sklyarenko, Frank Schreiber, Walter Schumacher
{"title":"Maneuvering assistant for truck and trailer combinations with arbitrary trailer hitching","authors":"Yevgen Sklyarenko, Frank Schreiber, Walter Schumacher","doi":"10.1109/ICMECH.2013.6519139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMECH.2013.6519139","url":null,"abstract":"Stabilizing controllers can assist the driver to safely maneuver of truck and trailer combinations like the EuroCombis. This paper presents a novel nonlinear controller for combinations of a nonholonomic tractor car with two semi-trailers based upon a instantaneous approximation of the vehicle kinematics, an exact input-state linearization technique and a model-reference control scheme. The main advantage of the suggested controller is its universality, as it can be applied to truck and trailer combinations with an arbitrary hitching offset as well as in both driving directions. Convergence and robustness properties of the proposed controller have been validated by series of simulations and experiments with a combination, which possesses one off-axle and one on-axle joint. The presented method can also be extended to other truck and trailer combinations.","PeriodicalId":448152,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115093313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of seismic absolute displacement sensors based on sensitivity calibration and control tests of an anti-vibration apparatus","authors":"T. Kai, Y. Nakamura, S. Wakui","doi":"10.1109/ICMECH.2013.6518526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMECH.2013.6518526","url":null,"abstract":"In the field of vibration control of aero space structures, Direct Velocity and Displacement FeedBack (DVDFB) is well-known as an effective control scheme in terms of robustness. However, according to the skyhook control theory, Direct Acceleration, Velocity, and Displacement FeedBack (DAVDFB) is preferable as to manipulate seismic parameters of controlled objects. To contribute for implementation of the DAVDFB, we have proposed a seismic displacement sensor, which can simultaneously detect absolute acceleration, velocity and displacement signals. Prototype sensors have been applied as feedback or feedforward sensors in vibration control of antivibration apparatuses. However, due to low detection sensitivity and narrow bandwidth, control performance is not enough for practical use in industrial scenes. Thus, the detection sensitivity is mechanically improved by increasing the number of coil turns, and this effect is evaluated by sensitivity calibration. Moreover, to confirm the effect on practical applications, we carry out control tests of an anti-vibration apparatus with one degree-of-freedom by using the improved displacement sensor.","PeriodicalId":448152,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129956538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new asymptotic tracking approach for robot manipulators with actuator saturation","authors":"Yuxin Su, J. Swevers","doi":"10.1109/ICMECH.2013.6519119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMECH.2013.6519119","url":null,"abstract":"This paper revisits the asymptotic tracking of robot manipulators with actuator constraints. Different from the existing control methods, the proposed saturated control algorithm is developed based on a proportional-derivative (PD) feedback control scheme with computed feedforward of robot dynamics. The benefit of the developed design approach is that it offers a new bound to shape the actuator signal that is less conservative than bounds specified by previously developed saturated control schemes, hence allowing more freedom to design the feedback gains for the given actuator constraints. Lyapunov's direct method is used to prove semi-global asymptotic stability. Simulations performed on a two-degree-of-freedom (DOF) manipulator are provided to illustrate the effectiveness and improved performance of the proposed approach.","PeriodicalId":448152,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM)","volume":"257 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132461334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where future robots should go and should not go","authors":"M. Kaneko, M. Higashimori","doi":"10.1007/978-3-7091-0277-0_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0277-0_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":448152,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130882948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"H∞ output feedback controller based on complete quadratic Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional for time delay systems","authors":"Y. Uchimura, Daiki Minagawa","doi":"10.1109/ICMECH.2013.6519159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMECH.2013.6519159","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes an output feedback controller design method based on a complete Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional for time delay systems. Conventional design methods based on the Lyapunov-Krasovskii stability theorem may be conservative because they choose the Lyapunov functional to achieve a sufficient condition. In addition, conventional H∞ performance design methods do not focus on the frequency property of a closed loop system; hence, it is difficult to obtain a controller that achieves the desired performance. This paper proposes a stabilizing condition based on a complete quadratic Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional and a controller design that considers the frequency-dependent performance.","PeriodicalId":448152,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM)","volume":"27 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134225635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Center of mass states and disturbance estimation for a walking biped","authors":"Iyad Hashlamon, K. Erbatur","doi":"10.1109/ICMECH.2013.6518544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMECH.2013.6518544","url":null,"abstract":"An on-line assessment of the balance of the robot requires information of the state variables of the robot dynamics and measurement data about the environmental interaction forces. However, modeling errors, external forces and hard to measure states pose difficulties to the control systems. This paper presents a method of using the motion information to estimate the center of mass (CoM) states and the disturbance of walking humanoid robot. The motion is acquired from the inertial measurement unit (IMU) and forward kinematics only. Kalman filter and disturbance observer are employed, Kalman filter is used for the states and disturbance estimation, and the disturbance observer is used to decompose the disturbance into modeling error and acceleration error based on the frequency band. The disturbance is modeled mathematically in terms of previous CoM and Zero moment point (ZMP) states rather than augmenting it in the system states. The ZMP is estimated using the quadratic programming method to solve the constraint dynamic equations of the humanoid robot in translational motion. A biped robot model of 12-degrees-of-freedom (DOF) is used in the full-dynamics 3-D simulations for the estimation validation. The results indicate that the presented estimation method is successful and promising.","PeriodicalId":448152,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132172990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}