15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
COMPARISON OF FOUR METHODS OF ROBOT TRAJECTORY CONTROL
D.T. PHAM* and Şahin YILDIRIM+
* Manufacturing Engineering Centre, Cardiff University
Cardiff CF24 3TE, UK
+ Engineering Faculty, Erciyes University
Kayseri 38039, TURKEY

This paper describes four methods for robot trajectory control. These methods are a standard PID controller, a Computed Torque Method (CTM), a neural networks based inverse controller and a neural network based Internal Model Controller(IMC). The IMC is investigated as an alternative to the basic inverse control scheme that is difficult to implement. The results presented show the superior ability of the proposed neural network based IMC scheme at adapting to changes in the dynamic parameters of the robot.
Keywords: control, neural networks
Session slot T-Th-A18: Advanced Robotics/Area code 1d : Robotics