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A family of virtual contraction based controllers for tracking of flexible-joints port-Hamiltonian robots: theory and experiments

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arxiv 2002.01542 v1 pith:M2HYCGWX submitted 2020-02-04 eess.SY cs.ROcs.SYmath.OC

A family of virtual contraction based controllers for tracking of flexible-joints port-Hamiltonian robots: theory and experiments

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In this work we present a constructive method to design a family of virtual contraction based controllers that solve the standard trajectory tracking problem of flexible-joint robots (FJRs) in the port-Hamiltonian (pH) framework. The proposed design method, called virtual contraction based control (v-CBC), combines the concepts of virtual control systems and contraction analysis. It is shown that under potential energy matching conditions, the closed-loop virtual system is contractive and exponential convergence to a predefined trajectory is guaranteed. Moreover, the closed-loop virtual system exhibits properties such as structure preservation, differential passivity and the existence of (incrementally) passive maps.

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