Flexible Robot Manipulators: Modelling, Simulation and Control

Industrial automation is driving the development of robot manipulators in various applications, with much of the research effort focused on flexible manipulators and their advantages compared to their rigid counterparts. This book reports recent advances and new developments in the analysis and control of these robot manipulators.

After a general overview of flexible manipulators the book introduces a range of modelling and simulation techniques based on the Lagrange equation formulatio…