Biomimetic hybrid feedback feedforword adaptive neural control of robotic arms

This paper presents a biomimetic hybrid feedback feedforword (HFF) adaptive neural control for a class of robotic arms. The control structure includes a proportional-derivative feedback term and an adaptive neural network (NN) feedforword term, which mimics the human motor learning and control mechanism. Semiglobal asymptotic stability of the closed-loop system is established by the Lyapunov synthesis. The major difference of the proposed design from the traditional feedback adaptive approximation-based control (AAC) design is that only desired outputs, rather than both tracking errors and desired outputs, are applied as NN inputs. Such a slight difference leads to several attractive properties, including the convenient NN design, the decrease of the number of NN inputs, and semiglobal asymptotic stability dominated by control gains. Compared with previous HFF-AAC approaches, the proposed approach has two unique features: 1) all above attractive properties are achieved by a much simpler control scheme; 2) the bounds of plant uncertainties are not required to be known. Simulation results have verified the effectiveness and superiority of this approach.