Real-Time Compliance and Position Control of a Hyper-redundant Soft Robotic Arm
Robots working in unstructured or partially unobservable environments must combine accurate motion with physical compliance that can passively correct contact misalignment. Soft robots provide this compliance but have struggled to precisely control their tip compliance and position. This paper presents a robot architecture designed around that control problem: a 7-link arm whose six articulated joints provide twelve independently driven revolute axes, each actuated by an antagonistic pair of pneumatic muscles, so that every axis can simultaneously change its angle and linearly adjust its stiffness. The rigid articulated backbone makes the tip compliance and position of the arm predictable enough to be commanded quantitatively in real time. The robot employs a unified iterative inverse-kinematics and inverse-compliance controller to achieve simultaneous, quantitative control of both compliance and position. The task-space compliance and kinematics models and the control law are derived and verified on both the physical arm and a matched simulation. Simulation is then used to study how the same framework extends to other arm morphologies. Finally, the arm demonstrates tasks that have been difficult for both rigid and soft arms: rejecting disturbances while writing on a moving whiteboard, and passively correcting hidden misalignment during a key-insertion and drawer-opening task. That these tasks succeed under so straightforward a controller is evidence for the advantage of this algorithm-informed structural design.
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