• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.677-688
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• 2008

In this paper, the general problem of impedance control for a robotic manipulator with a moving flexible base is addressed. Impedance control imposes a relation between force and displacement at the contact point with the environment. The concept of impedance control of flexible base mobile manipulator is rather new and is being considered for first time using singular perturbation and new sliding mode control methods by authors. Initially slow and fast dynamics of robot are decoupled using singular perturbation method. Slow dynamics represents the dynamics of the manipulator with rigid base. Fast dynamics is the equivalent effect of the flexibility in the base. Then, using sliding mode control method, an impedance control law is derived for the slow dynamics. The asymptotic stability of the overall system is guaranteed using a combined control law comprising the impedance control law and a feedback control law for the fast dynamics. As first time, base flexibility was analyzed accurately in this paper for flexible base moving manipulator (FBMM). General dynamic decoupling, whole system stability guarantee and new composed robust control method were proposed. This proposed Sliding Mode Impedance Control Method (SMIC) was simulated for two FBMM models. First model is a simple FBMM composed of a 2 DOFs planar manipulator and a single DOF moving base with flexibility in between. Second FBMM model is a complete advanced 10 DOF FBMM composed of a 4 DOF manipulator and a 6 DOF moving base with flexibility. This controller provides desired position/force control accurately with satisfactory damped vibrations especially at the point of contact. This is the first time that SMIC was addressed for FBMM.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.25-32
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• 1994

This paper presents a robust impedance controller design to coordinate a robot manipulator under system uncertainties while regulating external forces. By an impedance approach, the relationship between the motion and external forces is defined. Due to the system uncertainties, two kind of sliding mode control schemes based on the impedance approach are derived to ensure that the manipulator end-effector follows a desired trajectory and the force applied to end effector is regulated according to a target impendance. A stability condition is shown according to a sliding condition. To evaluate the devised control scheme, a numerical example is shown.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.256-264
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• 2018

Unlike normal wheels, the Mecanum wheel enables omni-directional movement regardless of the orientation of a mobile robot. In this paper, a robust trajectory tracking control method is developed based on the dynamic model of the Mecanum wheel mobile robot in order that the mobile robot can move along the given path in the environment with disturbance. The method is designed using the impedance control to make the mobile robot to track the path, and the integral sliding mode control for robustness to disturbance. The good performance of the proposed method is verified using the MATLAB /Simulink simulation and also through the experiment on an actual Mecanum wheel mobile robot. In both the simulation and the experimentation, we make the mobile robot move along a reference trajectory while maintaining the robot's orientation at a constant angle to see the characteristics of the Mecanum wheel.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.643-650
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• 2017

최근에 유연관절로봇의 제어는 로봇시스템에 있어서 다양한 적용가능성이 증가하고 있기 때문에 점점 그 중요성이 커지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 유연관절로봇의 제어에 있어서 적분슬라이딩모드제어기와 백스테핑제어기법을 도입하여 강인성을 증가시키는 방법을 제안한다. 슬라이딩모드제어기를 사용하여 강인성을 향상시키기 위해서는 제어대상이 정합조건을 만족시켜야 하는데 유연관절로봇은 이 조건을 만족시키지 못한다. 유연관절로봇은 링크측과 모터측으로 나누어 생각할 수 있고 각 측에 외란이 존재하나 실제입력은 모터측에 존재하기 때문에 링크측 외란은 정합조건을 만족시킬 수 없으므로 슬라이딩모드제어기로 제거하기가 어렵다. 이에 본 논문에서는 백스테핑을 도입하여 이러한 비정합 문제를 해결함으로써 링크측 외란의 영향을 제거할 수 있도록 한다. 이와 더불어 임피던스제어 성능을 가질 수 있도록 적분슬라이딩모드제어기를 함께 사용한다.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2017

For dismantling heavy structure under special environment in radioactivity, there are many problems which should be tele-operated and feedback a cutting force for cutting a thick structure such as concrete. When operator dismantles a thick heavy concrete structure, it is in sufficient to judge whether robot is contacting or not with environment by using only vision information. To overcome this problem, force feedback and impedance model based bilateral control are introduced. The sliding mode control with sliding perturbation observer (SMCSPO) based bilateral control is applied and surveyed to a single rod hydraulic cylinder in this paper. The sliding mode control is used for robustness against a disturbance. The sliding perturbation observer is used for estimation of a reaction force such as cutting force. The bilateral control is executed using the information of reaction force estimated by SMCSPO. The contribution of this paper is that the estimation method and bilateral control of the single rod hydraulic cylinder are introduced and discussed by experiment.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.741-752
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• 2015

This study proposes a new solution for the parallel operation of microgrid inverters in terms of circuit topology and control structure. A combined three-phase four-wire inverter composed of three single-phase full-bridge circuits is adopted. Moreover, the control structure is based on adaptive three-order sliding-mode control and wireless load-sharing control. The significant contributions are as follows. 1) Adaptive sliding-mode control performance in inner voltage loop can effectively reject both voltage and load disturbances. 2) Virtual resistive-output-impedance loop is applied in intermediate loop to achieve excellent power-sharing accuracy, and load power can be shared proportionally to the power rating of the inverter when loads are unbalanced or nonlinear. 3) Transient droop terms are added to the conventional power outer loop to improve dynamic response and disturbance rejection performance. Finally, theoretical analysis and test results are presented to validate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.881-893
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• 2019

This paper proposes a practical sliding-mode controller design for shaping the impedances of cascaded boost-converter power decoupling circuits for reducing the second order harmonic ripple in photovoltaic (PV) current. The cascaded double-boost converter, when used as power decoupling circuit, has some advantages in terms of a high step-up voltage-ratio, a small number of switches and a better efficiency when compared to conventional topologies. From these features, it can be seen that this topology is suitable for residential (PV) rooftop systems. However, a robust controller design capable of rejecting double frequency inverter ripple from passing to the (PV) source is a challenge. The design constraints are related to the principle of the impedance-shaping technique to maximize the output impedance of the input-side boost converter, to block the double frequency PV current ripple component, and to prevent it from passing to the source without degrading the system dynamic responses. The design has a small recovery time in the presence of transients with a low overshoot or undershoot. Moreover, the proposed controller ensures that the ripple component swings freely within a voltage-gap between the (PV) and the DC-link voltages by the small capacitance of the auxiliary DC-link for electrolytic-capacitor elimination. The second boost controls the main DC-link voltage tightly within a satisfactory ripple range. The inverter controller performs maximum power point tracking (MPPT) for the input voltage source using ripple correlation control (RCC). The robustness of the proposed control was verified by varying system parameters under different load conditions. Finally, the proposed controller was verified by simulation and experimental results.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.173-179
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• 2017

본 논문은 고자유도의 로봇에 대한 강인한 임피던스제어를 제안한다. 자유도가 높은 로봇에 대해서 동특성기반으로 제어하기 위해서는 해석적인 로봇의 동특성확보가 거의 불가능하기 때문에 수치해석적인 모델을 사용하게 된다. 이에 근본적으로 모델링오차가 존재하고 작업공간에서 임피던스제어기를 설계하는 경우에 많은 개수의 관절의 움직임의 영향을 받기 때문에 강인제어의 필요성이 더욱 절실하다. 이에 모델링 불확실성과 외란의 존재와 상관없이 원하는 임피던스를 유지하기 위해서는 공칭계통의 동특성에 슬라이딩모드의 강인성을 추가할 수 있는 적분슬라이딩모드제어를 도입하였고 입력외란의 영향을 제거할 수 있는 외란 관측기를 동시에 적용한 강인한 임피던스제어기를 제안하였다. 외란과 모델 불확실성이 존재함에도 불구하고 공칭계통을 기반으로 한 임피던스제어기의 특성을 그대로 유지할 수 있는 제어기가 설계되었다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.1046-1055
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• 2016

A controller to mitigate the destabilizing effect of constant power load (CPL) is proposed for a DC/DC buck-boost converter. The load profile has been considered to be predominantly of CPL type. The negative incremental resistance of the CPL tends to destabilize the feeder system, which may be an input filter or another DC/DC converter. The proposed sliding mode controller aims to ensure system stability under the dominance of CPL. The effectiveness of the controller has been validated through real-time simulation studies and experiments under various operating conditions. The controller has been demonstrated to be robust with respect to variations in supply voltage and load and capable of mitigating instabilities induced by CPL. Furthermore, the controller has been validated using all possible load profiles, which may arise in modern-day DC-distributed power systems.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.416-422
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• 2017

인간과 로봇이 같은 공간에서 작업을 할 경우가 많아짐에 따라 안전성을 고려한 로봇의 제어가 필요하다. 안정성을 위해서 로봇은 인간의 힘에 순응해야 함으로 낮은 임피던스가 요구되는 반면에 높은 제어성능을 갖도록 하기 위해서는 외란에 강인하기 위해서는 높은 임피던스가 요구된다. 이러한 이율배반적인 목적을 달성하기 위해서 본 연구에서는 적분슬라이딩모드와 외란관측기(DOB)를 사용하여 인간의 힘 이외의 외란에는 강인한 특성을 보이고 인간의 힘에는 순응할 수 있는 제어기를 설계한다. 인간의 동작이 특정 주파수의 범위에 있다는 사실에 근거하여 인간에 의한 외란인 경우의 외란에 대해서는 로봇이 순응하도록 슬라이딩모드를 설계하는 것이 본 논문의 독창적인 아이디어이다.