Decentralized Observer Design for Virtual Decomposition Control
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In this paper, we incorporate velocity observer design into the virtual decomposition control (VDC) strategy of an n-DoF open chain robotic manipulator. Descending from the VDC strategy, the proposed design is based on decomposing the n-DoF manipulator into subsystems, i.e., rigid links and joints, for which the controller-observer implementation can be done locally. Similar to VDC, the combined controller-observer design is passivity-based, and we show that it achieves semiglobal asymptotic convergence of the tracking error. The convergence analysis is carried out using non-negative accompanying functions based on the observer and controller error dynamics. The proposed design is demonstrated in a simulation study of a 2-DoF open chain robotic manipulator in the vertical plane.
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