An
active disturbance rejection control method for a cable-driven continuum
robot under
actuator saturation constraints, comprising: first, establishing dynamics models of a cable-driven continuum
robot, deriving a segmented dynamics model of the cable-driven continuum
robot on the basis of a
rotational symmetry theory of the cable-driven continuum robot, and on the basis of the dynamics model of any segment in the segmented dynamics model, obtaining the dynamics model of the cable-driven continuum robot considering
actuator saturation constraints; then, using a control input quantity and a
system output quantity that are subjected to saturation constraints as two input quantities of an extended
state observer to design the extended
state observer, and obtaining a state
feedback control law on the basis of a first output quantity and a second output quantity of the extended
state observer and a
system reference input
signal; and further obtaining a
system control law on the basis of the state
feedback control law, a third output quantity of the extended state observer, and an actual control input
gain. According to the
active disturbance rejection control method, the problem of limited driving
cable tension in a cable-driven continuum robot system can be transformed into the problem of
actuator saturation, and an
actuator saturation constraint problem can be taken into account in
controller design, so that the output of an actuator can be limited to a safe range to avoid damage to the system caused by excessive output of the actuator; additionally, in the
controller design process, the system control input
gain is not estimated, but the actual control input
gain of the system is used, thereby not only reducing adjustable parameters of the controller, but also further improving the disturbance rejection performance, the tracking performance and the robustness of the system.