Fast Whole-Body Strain Regulation in Continuum Robots
We propose reaching steps towards the real-time strain control of multiphysics, multiscale continuum soft robots. To study this problem fundamentally, we ground ourselves in a model-based control setting enabled by mathematically precise dynamics of a soft robot prototype. Poised to integrate, rather than reject, inherent mechanical nonlinearities for embodied compliance, we first separate the original robot dynamics into separate subdynamics -- aided by a perturbing time-scale separation parameter. Second, we prescribe a set of stabilizing nonlinear backstepping controllers for regulating the resulting subsystems' strain dynamics. Third, we study the interconnected singularly perturbed system by analyzing and establishing its stability. Fourth, our theories are backed up by fast numerical results on a single arm of the Octopus robot arm. We demonstrate strain regulation to equilibrium, in a significantly reduced time, of the whole-body reduced-order dynamics of an infinite degrees-of-freedom soft robot. This paper communicates our thinking within the backdrop of embodied intelligence: it informs our conceptualization, formulation, computational setup, and yields improved control performance for infinite degrees-of-freedom soft robots.
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