Robust control of robot manipulators with parametric uncertainty

This paper proposes a robust control law for n-link robot manipulators with parametric uncertainty whose upper bound is not assumed to be known. The proposed robust control based on the Corless-Leitmann approach includes a simple estimation law for the upper bound on the parametric uncertainty and an additional control input to be updated as a function of the estimated value. Using the Lyapunov stability theory, the uniform ultimate boundedness of the tracking error is proved