Fractional-order sliding mode controller for the two-link robot arm

Abstract

This study presents a control system of the two-link robot arm based on the sliding mode controller with the fractional-order. Firstly, the equations of the two-link robot arm are analyzed, then the author proposes the controller for each joint based on these equations. The controller is a sliding mode controller with its order is not an integer value. The task of the control system is controlling the torques acted on the joints so that the response angle of each link equal to the desired angle. The effectiveness of the proposed control system is demonstrated through Matlab-Simulink software. The robot model and controller are built for investigating the efficiency of the system. The result shows that the system quality is very good: There is not the chattering phenomenon of torques, the response angle of two links always follow the desired angle with the short transaction time and the static error of zero.