An efficient robust adaptive control law for robot manipulators

A computationally efficient robust adaptive control algorithm is proposed in this paper. The regressors are implemented using the desired trajectories to replace the actual trajectories in order to reduce the computational burden. To reduce the disturbance introduced by this replacement, an adaptive variable structure control law is proposed. The proposed adaptive control law results in a system that is robust to bounded input disturbances. A small modification of the control law makes the system robust to more general input disturbances. The stability analysis is in the Lyapunov sense. Simulation results demonstrate the validity of the proposed scheme.