Abstract:
This thesis aims to develop a technique to determine friction characteristic in real mechanical plants and also develop a friction model that can effectively demonstrate the effect of dither. The waist joint of the CRS Robotics is used in the study since the motion of this joint is free to the gravity. The joint position, sensed by an incremental encoder, is a discrete signal. Thus, a practical differentiation technique is proposed to determine joint velocity and acceleration which are first and second derivative of the position respectively. The friction characteristic should be determined in conjunction with joint inertia since both are unknown. This study also proposed a practical technique to determine both friction and plant inertia simultaneously based on the sinusoidal input, joint position, velocity and acceleration In the study, it is shown that the dither can reduce the steady state error in the feedback system when the command references are step and sinusoidal. All friction models, including Coulomb, Dahl, Lugre, Seven Parameter and State variable models show their response to the dither and the responses from the simulation with any of these friction models agree with the result from the experiment .Thus, these friction models can be used to study the effect of dither. The friction in the CRS Robotics, determined by the proposed technique, is closed to the Coulomb viscous friction, and the joint inertia is found to be 27.68 Nm S². When the dither is applied to the systems, the friction characteristic changes, especially at zero velocity. The discontinuous friction at the zero velocity is transformed to a continuous function. Thus, the mathematical model that can effectively display the effect of dither is proposed