Error Prediction for a Large Optical Mirror Processing Robot Based on Deep Learning

Predicting the errors of a large optical mirror processing robot (LOMPR) is very important when studying a feedforward control error compensation strategy to improve the motion accuracy of the LOMPR. Therefore, an end trajectory error prediction model of a LOMPR based on a Bayesian optimized long short-term memory (BO-LSTM) was established. First, the batch size, number of hidden neurons and learning rate of LSTM were optimized using a Bayesian method. Then, the established prediction models were used to predict the errors in the X and Y directions of the spiral trajectory of the LOMPR, and the prediction results were compared with those of back-propagation (BP) neural network. The experimental results show that the training time of the BO-LSTM is reduced to 21.4 % and 15.2 %, respectively, in X and Y directions than that of the BP neural network. Moreover, the MSE, RMSE, and MAE of the prediction error in the X direction were reduced to 9.4 %, 30.5 %, and 31.8 %, respectively; the MSE, RMSE, and MAE of the prediction error in the Y direction were reduced to 9.6 %, 30.8 %, and 37.8 %, respectively. It is verified that the BO-LSTM prediction model could improve not only the accuracy of the end trajectory error prediction of the LOMPR but also the prediction efficiency, which provides a research basis for improving the surface accuracy of an optical mirror.