Abstract
Crawler excavators are important, utilitarian machines in construction industries. Special features of the chain and chassis allow them to operate and move on unstable ground. The shock motions of the links, which coincide with the changes of the forces impacting the foundation, create vibrations within the entire system. The highest level of vibrations appears when the boom moves, as it holds the robotic excavator's entire actuator with large mass and moment of inertia. These undesired fluctuations cause system instability, driver discomfort, reduced operating efficiency, and increased energy consumption. In this study, a hierarchical sliding mode control focusing on boom movement is designed based on the system dynamic model. This controller allows the boom to move precisely with a slight fluctuation angle of the main body, even while the other links are moving using a parameter estimator. Maintaining stable boom movements significantly simplifies arm and bucket control. The effectiveness of the entire work is investigated by numerical simulation and implementation results on a small-scale hydraulic excavator.
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Abbreviations
- \(m_{1}\) :
-
Mass of the main body
- \(m_{2}\) :
-
Mass of the boom
- \(m_{3}\) :
-
Mass of the arm
- \(m_{4}\) :
-
Mass of the bucket
- \(I_{1z}\) :
-
Moment of inertia of the body about the axis perpendicular to the work plane and passing through \(O_{1}\)
- \(I_{2z}\) :
-
Moment of inertia of the boom the axis perpendicular to the work plane and passing through \(O_{2}\)
- \(I_{3z}\) :
-
Moment of inertia of the arm the axis perpendicular to the work plane and passing through \(O_{3}\)
- \(I_{4z}\) :
-
Moment of inertia of the bucket the axis perpendicular to the work plane and passing through \(O_{4}\)
- \(b_{1}\) :
-
Damping coefficients of body motion
- \(b_{2}\) :
-
Damping coefficients of boom motion
- \(g\) :
-
Gravitational acceleration
- \(a_{1}\) :
-
Length of the body
- \(a_{2}\) :
-
Length of the boom
- \(a_{3}\) :
-
Length of the am
- \(a_{4}\) :
-
Length of the bucket
- \(\delta_{\alpha } \left( t \right)\) :
-
Controlled angle of the body
- \(\beta \left( t \right)\) :
-
Controlled angle of the boom
- \(\gamma \left( t \right)\) :
-
Controlled angle of the arm
- \(\theta \left( t \right)\) :
-
Controlled angle of the bucket
- \(a_{c1}\) :
-
Distance from the origin to the mass center of the body
- \(a_{c2}\) :
-
Distance from the origin to the mass center of the boom
- \(a_{c3}\) :
-
Distance from the origin to the mass center of the arm
- \(a_{c4}\) :
-
Distance from the origin to the mass center of the bucket
- \(\varphi_{1}\) :
-
Fixed angle in the body related to the position of the mass center
- \(\varphi_{2}\) :
-
Fixed angle in the boom related to the position of the mass center
- \(\varphi_{3}\) :
-
Fixed angle in the arm related to the position of the mass center
- \(\varphi_{4}\) :
-
Fixed angle in the bucket related to the position of the mass center
- \(K_{eq}\) :
-
Equivalent stiffness of the foundation
- \(S_{\alpha }\) :
-
Abbreviation of \(\sin \alpha\)
- \(C_{\alpha }\) :
-
Abbreviation of \(\cos \alpha\)
- \(S_{\alpha \beta }\) :
-
Abbreviation of \(\sin (\alpha + \beta )\)
- \(C_{\alpha \beta }\) :
-
Abbreviation of \(\cos (\alpha + \beta )\)
- \(T\), \(\Pi\) :
-
Kinematic and potential energy of the system
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This research was partly supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education (2019R1A2C2010195) and by the Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea, under the ICT Consilience Creative program (IITP-2019-2015-0-00742) supervised by the IITP. Besides, the work was supported by Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy under Robot Industrial Core Technology Development Project program (K_G012000921401) supervised by the KEIT and by the LIG Nex1 Co., Ltd., through the Development of Multi-Platform Interlocking Control Model and Control Algorithm Program of the Agency for Defense Development (ADD) of Korea under Grant 20192610. It was also supported by Vietnam Maritime University.
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Hoang, QD., Park, JG., Lee, SG. et al. Aggregated Hierarchical Sliding Mode Control for Vibration Suppression of an Excavator on an Elastic Foundation. Int. J. Precis. Eng. Manuf. 21, 2263–2275 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12541-020-00422-9
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