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To realize ideal force control of robots that interact with a human, a very precise actuating system with zero impedance is desired. For such applications, a rotary series elastic actuator (RSEA) has been introduced recently. This chapter presents the design of RSEA and the associated control algorithms. To generate joint torque as desired, a torsional spring is installed between a motor and a human joint, and the motor is controlled to produce a proper spring deflection for torque generation. When the desired torque is zero, the motor must follow the human joint motion, which requires that the friction and the inertia of the motor be compensated. The human joint and the body part impose the load on the RSEA. They interact with uncertain environments and their physical properties vary with time. In this chapter, the disturbance observer method is applied to make the RSEA precisely generate the desired torque under such time-varying conditions. Based on the nominal model preserved by the disturbance observer, feedback and feedforward controllers are optimally designed for the desired performance: i.e. the RSEA 1) exhibits very low impedance and 2) generates the desired torque precisely while interacting with a human. The effectiveness of the proposed design is verified by experiments.
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Kong, K., Bae, J., Tomizuka, M. (2015). Mechatronic Considerations for Actuation of Human Assistive Wearable Robotics: Robust Control of a Series Elastic Actuator. In: Mohammed, S., Moreno, J., Kong, K., Amirat, Y. (eds) Intelligent Assistive Robots. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 106. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12922-8_16
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