Vibration Control of the Flexible Robotic Arm through Modal Interaction

Abstract

A vibration control method is proposed to suppress nonlinear large vibration of the flexible robotic arm undergoing rigid motion. The method takes advantage of modal interaction and is implemented based on internal resonance. To attenuate vibration of the flexible arm, another vibrating system, consisting of a rigid link, a flexible joint and a damper, is introduced as a vibration absorber. Perturbation technique is used to study the transient response of the nonlinear equations of motion. Numerical simulation results preliminarily verify that the proposed control strategy is able to effectively reduce vibration of the flexible robotic arm.