A parallel neuro-controller for DC motors containing nonlinear friction
This paper presents an application of a parallel neuro-controller for compensating the effects induced by the friction in a DC motor system. A back-propagation neural network based on a gradient descent algorithm is employed, and a bound on the tracking error is derived from the analysis of the tracking error dynamics. The parallel neuro-controller is a combination of a linear controller and a neural network controller which compensates for nonlinear friction. The proposed scheme is implemented and tested on an IBM PC-based DC motor control system. The algorithm, simulations, and experimental results are described. The results are relevant for many precision drives, such as those found in industrial robots.
neuro-controller dc motor friction compensation tracking error bound