Robust H∞ intelligent tracking control for robot manipulators

A novel robust H^infin intelligent control (RHIC) strategy is proposed for the trajectory following problem of robot manipulators. The proposed system is comprised of a computed torque controller and neural robust controller. Based on Lyapunov stability theorem, it is shown that the proposed controller can guarantee H^infin tracking performance of robotic system, in the sense that all variables of the closed-loop system are bounded and the effect due to the external disturbance on the tracking error can be attenuated to any pre-assigned level. The proposed approach indicates that computed torque control method is also valid for controlling uncertain robotic manipulators as long as compensative controller is appropriately designed.