Task-Based Control and Design of a BLDC Actuator for Robotics

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General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception Laboratory
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This work was supported in part by AFRL grant #FA865015D1845 subcontract 669737-1, and in part by ONR grant #N00014-16-1-2817, a Vannevar Bush Fellowship held by the last author, sponsored by the Basic Research Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.
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This paper proposes a new multi-input brushless DC motor current control policy aimed at robotics applications. The controller achieves empirical improvements in steady-state torque and power-production abilities relative to conventional controllers, while retaining similarly good torque-tracking and stability characteristics. Simulations show that non-conventional motor design optimizations whose feasibility is established by scaling model extrapolations from existing motor catalogues can vastly amplify the effectiveness of this new control-strategy.

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2019-01-12
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IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2019
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