Iterative learning control for trajectory tracking of a parallel Delta robot

Abstract

Abstract This paper proposes an iterative learning controller (ILC) under the alignment condition for trajectory tracking of a parallel Delta robot, that performs various repetitive tasks for palletization. Motivated by the high cadence of our application that leads to significant coupling effects, where the traditional PD/PID fail to satisfy the requirements performances. A PD-type ILC is combined with a PD controller in order to enhance the performance through iterations during the whole operation interval. The traditional resetting condition is replaced by the practical alignment condition, then the convergence of the tracking error is derived based on the Lyapunov’s theory. We definitely point out that the position and velocity errors decrease as the number of iterations increases. Experiments are carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed controller.