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Hamza Tahiri1, Mohamed Amine Tahiri2, Mhamed Sayyouri2

  • 1Laboratory of Engineering, Systems and Applications, National School of Applied Sciences, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah-Fez University, Fez, Morocco. hamza.tahiri@usmba.ac.ma.

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An improved Stochastic Paint Optimizer (SPO-CL1) effectively tunes sliding mode controller gains for robotic trajectory tracking, achieving superior accuracy and faster convergence.

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3-DoF robotic manipulatorAutomatic gain tuningMetaheuristicsSliding mode controlStochastic paint optimizer

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Area of Science:

  • Robotics
  • Control Systems
  • Optimization Algorithms

Background:

  • Robotic manipulators face challenges like nonlinearities, couplings, and external disturbances.
  • Achieving high trajectory tracking accuracy with reduced control effort and chattering is crucial for complex robotic applications.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an optimization-control framework for trajectory tracking of a 3-DoF manipulator.
  • To automatically tune sliding mode controller (SMC) gains using an enhanced Stochastic Paint Optimizer (SPO-CL1).
  • To enhance robustness, accuracy, convergence speed, and reduce chattering and actuation effort in robotic control.

Main Methods:

  • An improved Stochastic Paint Optimizer (SPO-CL1) was developed with chaotic initialization, Opposition-Based Learning, and Lévy flight perturbations.
  • SPO-CL1 automatically tuned the gains of a sliding mode controller by minimizing the Integrated Squared Error (ISE) cost function.
  • Validation involved benchmarking against eleven algorithms on the CEC-2022 suite and a path planning experiment on a Lemniscate of Bernoulli trajectory.

Main Results:

  • SPO-CL1 achieved the best Friedman rank (1.83) on the CEC-2022 benchmark suite, demonstrating statistically significant superiority over eleven other algorithms.
  • In the path planning experiment, SPO-CL1 yielded the lowest ISE (1.51 × 10⁻⁴) with minimal inter-run variance.
  • The approach demonstrated the fastest tracking error convergence and the tightest end-effector trajectory compared to all twelve algorithms.

Conclusions:

  • SPO-CL1 is a competitive and reliable approach for automatic SMC gain tuning in complex robotic applications.
  • The proposed framework effectively addresses nonlinearities, couplings, and disturbances, leading to improved robotic control performance.
  • The integration of structure-aware enhancements significantly boosts the optimizer's performance in tuning control system parameters.