LAUSR

A pneumatic artificial muscle (PAM) based on a metal hydride (MH) is considered for a compact compliant actuator. It is suitable for board applications of human robot interaction (HRI). To address the problem of HRI representing by varying environment, a compliant control is introduced. In fact, the bottlenecks of improving the performance in the compliant control of the PAM actuator are: a) an inherent non-linear dynamics of a PAM, b) the parametric and non-linear uncertainties, influenced by varying environment, and c) an additional high dimension introduced by an MH employed as a driving force for the PAM. We propose a learning-based adaptive robust control (LARC) framework to tackle these challenges. A Bayesian learning technique deals with the parameter adaptation for the adaptive control. The effectiveness of the LARC has been examined in extensive experiments of tracking control.