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Title: A suite of robust controllers for the manipulation of microscale objects
Author (s): Yang, Qinmin
Sarangapani, Jagannathan
Department/Lab Affiliations: Computer Science
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Engineering Management & Systems Engineering
Intelligent Systems Center
Keywords: adaptive neural network (ANN)
micromanipulation
reinforcement learning
robust controller
Issue Date: 2008-02
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE
Citation: Q. Yang and S. Jagannathan." A Suite of Robust Controllers for the Manipulation of Microscale Objects." IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol. 38(1), Feb. 2008.
Abstract: A suite of novel robust controllers is introduced for the pickup operation of microscale objects in a microelectromechanical system (MEMS). In MEMS, adhesive, surface tension, friction, and van der Waals forces are dominant. Moreover, these forces are typically unknown. The proposed robust controller overcomes the unknown contact dynamics and ensures its performance in the presence of actuator constraints by assuming that the upper bounds on these forces are known. On the other hand, for the robust adaptive critic-based neural network (NN) controller, the unknown dynamic forces are estimated online. It consists of an action NN for compensating the unknown system dynamics and a critic NN for approximating a certain strategic utility function and tuning the action NN weights. By using the Lyapunov approach, the uniform ultimate boundedness of the closed-loop manipulation error is shown for all the controllers for the pickup task. To imitate a practical system, a few system states are considered to be unavailable due to the presence of measurement noise. An output feedback version of the adaptive NN controller is proposed by exploiting the separation principle through a high-gain observer design. The problem of measurement noise is also overcome by constructing a reference system. Simulation results are presented and compared to substantiate the theoretical conclusions.
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titleA suite of robust controllers for the manipulation of microscale objects
contributor.authorYang, Qinmin
contributor.authorSarangapani, Jagannathan
contributor.deptlabComputer Science
contributor.deptlabElectrical and Computer Engineering
contributor.deptlabEngineering Management & Systems Engineering
contributor.deptlabIntelligent Systems Center
subjectadaptive neural network (ANN)
subjectmicromanipulation
subjectreinforcement learning
subjectrobust controller
date.issued2008-02
publisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE
identifier.citationQ. Yang and S. Jagannathan." A Suite of Robust Controllers for the Manipulation of Microscale Objects." IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol. 38(1), Feb. 2008.
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description.abstractA suite of novel robust controllers is introduced for the pickup operation of microscale objects in a microelectromechanical system (MEMS). In MEMS, adhesive, surface tension, friction, and van der Waals forces are dominant. Moreover, these forces are typically unknown. The proposed robust controller overcomes the unknown contact dynamics and ensures its performance in the presence of actuator constraints by assuming that the upper bounds on these forces are known. On the other hand, for the robust adaptive critic-based neural network (NN) controller, the unknown dynamic forces are estimated online. It consists of an action NN for compensating the unknown system dynamics and a critic NN for approximating a certain strategic utility function and tuning the action NN weights. By using the Lyapunov approach, the uniform ultimate boundedness of the closed-loop manipulation error is shown for all the controllers for the pickup task. To imitate a practical system, a few system states are considered to be unavailable due to the presence of measurement noise. An output feedback version of the adaptive NN controller is proposed by exploiting the separation principle through a high-gain observer design. The problem of measurement noise is also overcome by constructing a reference system. Simulation results are presented and compared to substantiate the theoretical conclusions.
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