High-Precision Admittance Control of Mechanical Arm Based on Force Sensor Compensation

Admittance control is one of the important methods of compliance control. It is performed by inputting force signals and outputting position signals. Position control can achieve high accuracy, but the force signals have large errors, which is an important factor affecting its accuracy. When the force sensor collects force data, there are non-negligible initial deviations due to gravity, installation, and other factors, resulting in poor admittance control accuracy. In order to solve this problem, this paper takes the six-degree-of-freedom manipulator admittance control as the research object. According to the mapping relationship between the end attitude and the sensor errors, we propose a method of obtaining the initial offset value of the sensor through data interpolation. This method traverses the initial values of the sensor in each working posture when the sensor has no external force input, and then performs secondary interpolation to obtain the offset values of the sensor in any posture, corrects the output values of the force/torque sensor, and then improve the accuracy of admittance control. The experimental results show that this method can quickly and effectively improve the calculation accuracy of the sensor’s initial deviation values and the admittance control accuracy.