All-Electric Heavy-Duty Robotic Manipulator: Surrogate-Enhanced Modeling and Adaptive Modular Control

Abstract:This paper presents a unified system-level modeling and control framework for an all-electric heavy-duty robotic manipulator (HDRM) driven by electromechanical linear actuators (EMLAs). A surrogate-enhanced actuator model, combining integrated electromechanical dynamics with a neural network trained on a dedicated testbed, is integrated into an extended virtual decomposition control (VDC) architecture augmented by a natural adaptation law. The derived analytical HDRM model supports a hierarchical control structure that seamlessly maps high-level force and velocity objectives to real-time actuator commands, accompanied by a Lyapunov-based stability proof. In multi-domain simulations of both cubic and a custom planar triangular trajectory, the proposed adaptive modular controller achieves sub-centimeter Cartesian tracking accuracy. Experimental validation of the same 1-DoF platform under realistic load emulation confirms the efficacy of the proposed control strategy. These findings demonstrate that a surrogate-enhanced EMLA model embedded in the VDC approach can enable modular, real-time control of an all-electric HDRM, supporting its deployment in next-generation mobile working machines.

Revised version of arXiv:2508.06313. This is the same work with an updated title, previously titled: Surrogate-Enhanced Modeling and Adaptive Modular Control of All-Electric Heavy-Duty Robotic Manipulators. Please retain the existing arXiv identifier to preserve continuity with previous versions and citations

Robotics (cs.RO)

arXiv:2508.06313 [cs.RO]

(or arXiv:2508.06313v2 [cs.RO] for this version)