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Large-scale deployable cable-driven robots face a lack of kinematic precision, and the cable dynamics impose considerable challenges in terms of controller design. The problem’s complexity increases because a deployable robot may not exploit expensive and highly accurate of measurement devices. Thus, it is necessary to efficiently combine the set of measurements available through low-cost sensors to track the end-effector’s position and reduce the oscillations. This paper’s main contribution is to propose a novel feedback method for fusing the vision and joint kinematic sensors for achieving suitable tracking performance. To this end, the dynamic formulation of a large-scale deployable cable-driven robot has been derived considering a lumped mass model for the cables. Based on this model, it is then shown that the stability conditions are satisfied through a suitable combination of sensory data incorporated into the control law. Finally, the performance for the proposed controller has been illustrated using the experimental results on a deployable suspended cable-driven robot showing the effectiveness of the proposed methodology regardless of the underlying system uncertainties.
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Khalilpour, S.A., Khorrambakht, R., Damirchi, H. et al. Tip-trajectory tracking control of a deployable cable-driven robot via output redefinition. Multibody Syst Dyn 52, 31–58 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11044-020-09761-x
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