Active Disturbance Rejection Control Design Using the Optimization Algorithm for a Hydraulic Quadruped Robot.

Journal: Computational intelligence and neuroscience
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Abstract

To increase the robustness and control precision of a hydraulic quadruped robot and simultaneously enhance the dynamic and steady characteristic of the hydraulic system, an active disturbance rejection controller (ADRC) tuned using the Lévy-flight beetle antennae search algorithm (LBAS) was proposed. Moreover, the designed controller was used in the hydraulic quadruped robot to enhance the control performance and restrain the disturbances. The use of the Lévy-flight trajectory in the advanced algorithm can help increase the search speed and iteration accuracy. In the LBAS-ADRC, the parameter tuning method is adopted to develop the active disturbance rejection controller enhanced using the beetle antennae search algorithm. When implemented in the hydraulic quadruped robot, the LBAS-ADRC can ensure satisfactory dynamic characteristics and stability in the presence of external interference. In particular, in the proposed method, the ADRC parameter search problem is transformed to a sixteen-dimensional search problem, the solution of which is identified using the Lévy-flight beetle antennae search algorithm. Moreover, three different algorithms are implemented in the active disturbance rejection controller tuning problem to demonstrate the control performance of the proposed controller. The analysis results show that the proposed controller can achieve a small amplitude overshoot under complex and changeable environments.

Authors

  • Yuqi Fan
    Key Laboratory of Advanced Manufacturing and Intelligent Technology, Ministry of Education, School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China.
  • Junpeng Shao
    Key Laboratory of Advanced Manufacturing and Intelligent Technology, Ministry of Education, School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China.
  • Guitao Sun
    Key Laboratory of Advanced Manufacturing and Intelligent Technology, Ministry of Education, School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China.
  • Xuan Shao
    Key Laboratory of Advanced Manufacturing and Intelligent Technology, Ministry of Education, School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China.