Abstract
An efficient numerical method for solving the partial differential equation (PDE) governing the flexible manipulator control dynamics is presented. A finite-dimensional model of the equation is obtained through discretization in both time and space coordinates by using finite-difference approximations to the PDE. An expert program written in the Macsyma symbolic language is utilized in order to embed the boundary conditions into the program, accounting for a mass carried at the tip of the manipulator. The advantages of the proposed algorithm are many, including the ability to 1) include any distributed actuation term in the partial differential equation, 2) provide distributed sensing of the beam displacement, 3) easily modify the boundary conditions through an expert program, and 4) modify the structure for running under a multiprocessor environment.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages | 557-560 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| State | Published - 1989 |
| Event | IEEE International Conference on Systems Engineering - Fairborn, OH, USA Duration: Aug 24 1989 → Aug 26 1989 |
Other
| Other | IEEE International Conference on Systems Engineering |
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| City | Fairborn, OH, USA |
| Period | 8/24/89 → 8/26/89 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Engineering