Distributed Parameter Modeling and Boundary Control of Flexible Manipulators

Introduction.- Mathematical Preliminaries.- PDE Modeling for Flexible Manipulator.- PDE Boundary Control Using Singular Perturbation Approach.- Boundary Control for Flexible Manipulator with Exponential Convergence.- Boundary Control for a Flexible Manipulator with LaSalle Analysis.- Boundary Control for a Flexible Manipulator with State Constraints Using Barrier Lyapunov Function.- Boundary Control of Flexible Manipulator with Input Constraints.- A Robust Observer Design for Flexible Manipulator Based on PDE Model.- Infinite Dimensional Disturbance Observer for Flexible Manipulator.- Boundary Control for a Flexible Manipulator with Guaranteed Transient Performance.- Conclusions.

Professor Jinkun Liu received BS, MS and PhD degrees from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 1989, 1994 and 1997, respectively. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China from 1997 to 1999, and is currently a full professor at Beihang University, Beijing, China. He has published more than 100 research papers and eight books. His research interests include intelligent control and sliding mode control; partial differential equation (PDE) modeling and boundary control; application areas related to motion control, such as flight control and robotic control, especially for under-actuated systems.
Professor Wei He received his PhD from Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, in 2011, his M.Eng. and B.Eng. degrees both from School of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou, China, in 2008 and 2006, respectively. He iscurrently working as the Full Professor at School of Automation and Electric Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), Beijing, China. He is a senior member of IEEE, the member of IEEE Control System Society (CSS), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) and IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES). He has been awarded a Newton Advanced Fellowship from The Royal Society, London, UK in 2017. He is a recipient of the IEEE SMC Society Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award in 2017. He is serving as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, and IEEE Access, the Editor of Neurocomputing, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Springer, and the Editor of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. He is the member of the IFAC TC on Distributed Parameter Systems, IFAC TC on Computational Intelligence in Control and IEEE CSS TC on Distributed Parameter Systems. He served as