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Ambient Pressure Compensation and Robust Position Control of Oil-filled Electric Joint Systems for Underwater Manipulators

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Abstract
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Electric joint systems are significant elements of an underwater manipulator for its actuation, drive, and control. Working in an underwater environment, the joints suffer huge ambient pressure. To withstand it, the pressure compensation method is usually deployed, whereas the pressurized oil introduces sealing problems as well as parametric uncertainties and unknown disturbances for the dynamic model of the joint. To tackle these issues, this study proposes a design framework for the underwater oil-filled electric joint.

Control framework.
The dynamics of the pressure compensation module is analyzed and the structure of the joint is optimized to seal the internal hydraulic oil. An uncertainty dynamic model of the oil-filled joint is established and a robust position controller is designed based on the structured singular value synthesis (𝜇-synthesis). Experimental results validate the feasibility of the proposed methods.

Structure of the underwater joint.

An experiment was conducted to verify the reliability of the method.