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The balancing of robotic systems is an important issue, because it allows for significant reduction of torques. However, the literature review shows that the balancing of robotic systems is performed without considering the traveling trajectory. Although in static balancing the gravity effects on the actuators are removed, and in complete balancing the Coriolis, centripetal, gravitational, and cross-inertia terms are eliminated, it does not mean that the required torque to move the manipulator from one point to another point is minimum. In this chapter, “optimal balancing” is presented for the open-chain robotic system based on the indirect solution of open-loop optimal control problem. Indeed, optimal balancing is an optimal trajectory planning problem in which states, controls, and all the unknown parameters associated with the counterweight masses or springs must be determined simultaneously to minimize the given performance index for a predefined point-to-point task. For this purpose, on the base of the fundamental theorem of calculus of variations, the necessary conditions for optimality are derived which lead to the optimality conditions associated with the Pontryagin’s minimum principle and an additional condition associated with the constant parameters. In this chapter, after presenting the formulation of the optimal balancing and static balancing, the obtained optimality conditions are developed for a two-link manipulator in details. Finally the efficiency of the suggested approach is illustrated by simulation for a two-link manipulator and a PUMA-like robot. The obtained results show that the proposed method has dominant superiority over the previous methods such as static balancing or complete balancing.
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Nikoobin, A., Moradi, M. (2016). Optimal Balancing of the Robotic Manipulators. In: Zhang, D., Wei, B. (eds) Dynamic Balancing of Mechanisms and Synthesizing of Parallel Robots. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17683-3_14
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