Second-order and implicit methods in numerical integration improve tracking performance of the closed-loop inverse kinematics algorithm

Drexler, Dániel András and Kovács, Levente (2016) Second-order and implicit methods in numerical integration improve tracking performance of the closed-loop inverse kinematics algorithm. In: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference Proceedings. IEEE, Budapest, pp. 3362-3367. ISBN 978-1-5090-1819-2

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Abstract

A general approach to solve the inverse kinematics problem of series manipulators, i.e. finding the required joint motions for the desired end effector motions, is based on the linear approximation of the forward kinematics map and discretization of the continuous problem. Due to the linearization, first velocities are calculated, so numerical integration needs to be done to get the joint variables. This general solution is just a numerical approximation, thus improving the tracking performance of the inverse kinematics algorithm is of great importance. The application of several numerical integration techniques (implicit Euler, explicit trapezoid, implicit trapezoid) is analyzed, and a fix point iteration is given that can be used to calculate implicit solutions. The tracking performance of the spatial inverse positioning problem of a spatial manipulator is analyzed by checking the tracking error in the desired direction (i.e. along the derivative of the desired end effector path) and in the plane perpendicular to the desired direction. The application of the explicit and implicit trapezoid methods yielded much better tracking performance in the directions orthogonal to the desired direction when the end effector had to track a linear path, while the tracking performance in the desired direction was similar for all the methods. Simulations showed that the application of implicit and second-order methods in the numerical integration may greatly improve the tracking performance of the closed-loop inverse kinematics algorithm.

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