Manipulator trajectory tracking based on adaptive sliding mode control

Abstract A manipulator is a complex electromechanical system that is nonlinear, strongly coupled, and uncertain. Achieving its precise and high‐quality trajectory control is difficult. Sliding mode control (SMC) is one of the common control methods for manipulators. However, discontinuities in SMC can cause jitter and vibration in the manipulator system, leading to a reduction in the performance of the control system. For the self‐adaptive capability jitter vibration problem of SMC, the Dobot magician manipulator is treated as the research object in this article. The dynamics equations of the manipulator are established by Lagrange method, and a simplified model of the manipulator dynamics is constructed. The method of self‐adaptive sliding mode control is proposed. Self‐adaptive parameters are added to the SMC to achieve self‐adaptive adjustment of the SMC parameters. In the MATLAB/Simulink simulation environment analysis show that the self‐adaptive SMC method has better self‐tuning ability and trajectory tracking ability than the traditional SMC, and weakens the jitter phenomenon existing in the traditional SMC.