A New Fuzzy Backstepping Control Based on RBF Neural Network for Vibration Suppression of Flexible Manipulator

Flexible manipulators have been widely used in industrial production. However, due to the poor rigidity of the flexible manipulator, it is easy to generate vibration. This will reduce the working accuracy and service life of the flexible manipulator. It is necessary to suppress vibration during the operation of the flexible manipulator. Based on the energy method and the Hamilton principle, the partial differential equations of the manipulator were established. Secondly, an improved radial basis function (RBF) neural network was combined with the fuzzy backstepping method to identify and suppress random vibration during the operation of the flexible manipulator, and the Lyapunov function and control law were designed. Finally, Simulink was used to build a simulation platform, three different external disturbances were set up, and the effect of vibration suppression was observed through the change curves of the final velocity error and displacement error. Compared with the RBF neural network boundary control method and the RBF neural network inversion method, the simulation results show that the effect of the RBF neural network fuzzy inversion method is better than the previous two control methods, the system convergence is faster, and the equilibrium position error is smaller.