Pick–and–Place Trajectory Planning and Robust Adaptive Fuzzy Tracking Control for Cable–Based Gangue–Sorting Robots with Model Uncertainties and External Disturbances

Abstract

A suspended cable–based parallel robot (CBPR) composed of four cables and an end–grab is employed in a pick–and–place operation of moving target gangues (MTGs) with different shapes, sizes, and masses. This paper focuses on two special problems of pick–and–place trajectory planning and trajectory tracking control of the cable–based gangue–sorting robot in the operation space. First, the kinematic and dynamic models for the cable–based gangue–sorting robots are presented in the presence of model uncertainties and unknown external disturbances. Second, to improve the sorting accuracy and efficiency of sorting system with cable–based gangue–sorting robot, a four-phase pick–and–place trajectory planning scheme based on S-shaped acceleration/deceleration algorithm and quintic polynomial trajectory planning method is proposed, and moreover, a robust adaptive fuzzy tracking control strategy is presented against inevitable uncertainties and unknown external disturbances for trajectory tracking control of the cable–based gangue–sorting robot, where the stability of a closed-loop control scheme is proved with Lyapunov stability theory. Finally, the performances of pick–and–place trajectory planning scheme and robust adaptive tracking control strategy are evaluated through different numerical simulations within Matlab software. The simulation results show smoothness and continuity of pick–and–place trajectory for the end–grab as well as the effectiveness and efficiency to guarantee a stable and accurate pick–and–place trajectory tracking process even in the presence of various uncertainties and external disturbances. The pick–and–place trajectory generation scheme and robust adaptive tracking control strategy proposed in this paper lay the foundation for accurate sorting of MTGs with the robot.

Keywords

• cable–based parallel robot
• gangue sorting robot
• pick–and–place operations
• trajectory planning
• tracking control
• robustness