Decomposition-based friction compensation of mechanical systems

In this paper, a linear parametric friction model is formulated by linearizing a nonlinear empirical friction model in parameters. A proposed decomposition-based control design framework is applied to synthesize the friction compensation scheme. A separate compensator is designed for each type of friction utilizing the most suitable control technique. The nominal friction is compensated by feed forward, An adaptive compensator is derived to compensate for parametric unmodeled friction with unknown but constant parameters, and a robust compensator is used to deal with friction model parameter variations. as well as non-parametric unmodeled friction. The combination of the compensators yields the overall compensation scheme. Adaptive and robust compensators complement each other in compensating the effects of model uncertainties. The analytical and simulation studies have confirmed the efficiency of the proposed friction compensation method. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.