A survey of the field of control for flexible multi-link robots is presented. This research area has drawn great attention during the last two decades, and seems to be somewhat less “attractive” now, due to the many satisfactory results already obtained, but also because of the complex nature of the remaining open problems. Thus it seems that the time has come to try to deliver a sort of “state of the art” on this subject, although an exhaustive one is out of scope here, because of the great amount of publications. Instead, we survey the most salient progresses – in our opinion – approximately during the last decade, that are representative of the essential different ideas in the field. We proceed along with the exposition of material coming from about 119 included references. We do not pretend to deeply present each of the methods quoted hereafter; however, our goal is to briefly introduce most of the existing methods and to refer the interested reader to more detailed presentations for each scheme. To begin with, a now well-established classification of the flexible arms control goals is given. It is followed by a presentation of different control strategies, indicating in each case whether the approach deals with the one-link case, which can be successfully treated via linear models, or with the multi-link case which necessitates nonlinear, more complex, models. Some possible issues for future research are given in conclusion.

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We present a sparse sensing framework based on Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) to identify flow regimes and bifurcations in large-scale thermo-fluid systems. Motivated by real-time sensing and control of thermal-fluid flows in buildings and equipment, we apply this method to a Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) data set of a 2D laterally heated cavity. The resulting flow solutions can be divided into several regimes, ranging from steady to chaotic flow. The DMD modes and eigenvalues capture the main temporal and spatial scales in the dynamics belonging to different regimes. Our proposed classification method is data-driven, robust w.r.t measurement noise, and exploits the dynamics extracted from the DMD method. Namely, we construct an augmented DMD basis, with "built-in" dynamics, given by the DMD eigenvalues. This allows us to employ a short time-series of data from sensors, to more robustly classify flow regimes, particularly in the presence of measurement noise. We also exploit the incoherence exhibited among the data generated by different regimes, which persists even if the number of measurements is small compared to the dimension of the DNS data. The data-driven regime identification algorithm can enable robust low-order modeling of flows for state estimation and control.

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In this paper, we present an overview of adaptive control by contrasting model-based approaches with data-driven approaches. Indeed, we propose to classify adaptive controllers into two main subfields, namely, model-based adaptive control and data-driven adaptive control. In each subfield, we cite monographs, survey papers, and recent research papers published in the last few years. We also include a few simple examples to illustrate some general concepts in each subfield.

We study in this paper the problem of adaptive robust control of electromagnetic actuators. We first design a nonlinear controller that stabilizes locally the error dynamics. Next, we complement this nonlinear controller with a multiparametric extremum seeking control to tune the feedback gains of the nonlinear controller. We use numerical tests to demonstrate the performance of this controller in dealing with model uncertainties.

a b s t r a c tWe present some results on the stabilization of reduced-order models (ROMs) for thermal fluids. The stabilization is achieved using robust Lyapunov control theory to design a new closure model that is robust to parametric uncertainties. Furthermore, the free parameters in the proposed ROM stabilization method are optimized using a data-driven multiparametric extremum seeking (MES) algorithm. The 2D and 3D Boussinesq equations provide challenging numerical test cases that are used to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed method.