Talk:Feedforward control

So what is it?
What exactly *is* feedforward control? It might help if it were compared and contrasted to beedback control. Introductory paragraphs typically provide such a definition in a form accessable to the layman. Later paragraphs may provide a more formal definition. Finally, the tutorial link at the end of the introductory paragraph is on machine learning and control but does refer to feedforward control. Unfortunately, that tutorial does not provide a basic definition for feedforward control. Vonkje (talk) 17:44, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Which book does the chapter_9 which is referenced in this article comes from. What is the exact reference? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.142.129.248 (talk) 16:05, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

References formatting
References use manual formatting. Needs to be changed to use standard formatting. -—Kvng 15:18, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Strange biblio
I have moved this strange biblio from the article. Perhaps we can try and agree on which should be put back as a 6 or 7 source "Further reading" section? Chaosdruid (talk) 22:18, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

1. Oosting, K.W., Simulation of Control Strategies for a Two Degree-of-Freedom Lightweight Flexible Robotic Arm, Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1987,

2. Alberts, T.E., Augmenting the Control of A Flexible Manipulator with Passive Mechanical Damping, PhD. Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, August 1986.

3. Hastings, G.G., Controlling Flexible Manipulators, An Experimental Investigation, Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of Mech. Eng., Georgia Institute of Technology, August, 1986.

4. Book, W.J. and Cetinkunt, S., "Optimum Control of Flexible Robot Arms OR Fixed Paths", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. December 1985.

5. Meckl, P.H. and Seering, W.P. /'Feedforward Control Techniques Achieve Fast Settling Time in Robots" Automatic Control Conference Proceedings. 1986, pp 58–64.

6. Sakawa, Y., Matsuno, F. and Fukushima, S., "Modeling and Feedback Control of a Flexible Arm", Journal of Robotic Systems. August 1985, pp 453–472.

7. Truckenbrodt, A., "Modeling and Control of Flexible Manipulator Structures", 4th CISM-IFToMM Symp., Warszawa, 1981.

8. Leu, M.C., Dukovski, V. and Wang, K.K., "An Analytical and Experimental Study of the Stiffness of Robot Manipulators with Parallel Mechanisms", 1985 ASME Winter Annual Meeting PRD-Vol. 15 Robotics and Manufacturing Automation, pp. 137–144

9. Asada, H., Youcef-Toumi, K. and Ramirez, R.B., "Designing of the MIT Direct Drive Arm", Int. Symp. on Design and Synthesis, Japan, July 1984.

10. Rameriz, R.B., Design of a High Speed Graphite Composite Robot Arm, M.S. Thesis, M.E. Dept., MIT, Feb. 1984.

11. Balas, M.J., "Feedback Control of Flexible Systems", IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, Vol.AC-23, No.4, Aug. 1978, pp. 673–679.

12. Balas, M.J., "Active Control of Flexible Systems", J. of Optim. Th. and App., Vol.25, No.3, July 1978,

13. Book, W.J., Modeling, Design and Control of Flexible Manipulator Arms, PhD. Thesis, MIT, Dept. of Mech. Eng., April 1974.

14. Maizza-Neto, 0., Modal Analysis and Control of Flexible Manipulator Arms, PhD. Thesis-, MIT, Dept. of Mech. Eng., September 1974.

15. Book, W.J., Maizzo Neto, 0. and Whitney, D.E., "Feedback Control of Two Beam, Two Joint Systems With Distributed Flexibility", Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Vol.97, No.4, December 1975, pp. 424–430.

16. Book, W.J., "Analysis of Massless Elastic Chains With Servo Controlled Joints", Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Vol.101, September 1979, pp. 187–192.

17. Book, W.J., "Recursive Lagrangian Dynamics of Flexible Manipulator Arms Via Transformation Matrices", Carnegie-Mellon University Robotics Institute Technical Report, CMU-RI-TR-8323, Dec. 1983.

18. Hughes, P.C., "Dynamics of a Flexible Manipulator Arm for the Space Shuttle", AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Conference, September 1977, Jackson Lake Lodge, Wyoming.

19. Hughes, P.C., "Dynamics of a Chain of Flexible Bodies", Journal of Astronautical Sciences, 27,4, Oct.-Dec. 1979, pp. 359–380.

20. Meirovitch, L., "Modeling and control of Distributed Structures" Proc. of the Workshop on Application of Distributed System Theory to Large Space Structures, JPL/CIT, NTIS #N83- 36064, July 1, 1983.

21. Schmitz, E., "Experiments on the End-point Position Control of a Very Flexible One Link.Manipulator", Ph.D. Dissertation,-Stanford Univ., Dept. of Aero & Astro., June 1985.

22. Martin, G.D., On the Control of Flexible Mechanical Systems, Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford Univ., Dept. of E.E., May 1978.

23. Zalucky, A. and Hardt, D.E., "Active Control of Robot Structure Deflections", J. of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Vol. 106, March 1984, pp. 63–69.

24. Sangveraphunsiri, V., The Optimal Control and Design of a Flexible Manipulator Arm, Ph.D Dissertation, Dept. of Mech. Eng., Georgia Inst, of Tech., 1984.

25. Alberts, T.E., Sangveraphunsiri, V. and Book, Wayne J., Optimal Control of a Flexible Manipulator Arm: Volume I, Dynamic Modeling, MHRC Technical Report, MHRC-TR-85-06, Georgia Inst, of Technology, 1985.

26. Nemir, D. C, Koivo, A. J., and Kashyap, R. L., "Pseudolinks and the Self-Tuning Control of a Nonrigid Link Mechanism", Purdue University, Advance copy submitted for publication, 1987.

27. Widmann, G. R. and Ahmad, S., "Control of Industrial Robots with Flexible Joints", Purdue University, Advance copy submitted for publication, 1987.

28. Hollars, M. G., Uhlik, C. R., and Cannon, R. H., "Comparison of Decoupled and Exact Computed Torque Control for Robots with Elastic Joints", Advance copy submitted for publication, 1987.

29. Cannon, R. H. and Schmitz, E., "Initial Experiments on the End- Point Control of a Flexible One Link Robot", International Journal of Robotics Research, November 1983.

30. Oosting, K.W. and Dickerson, S.L., “Low-Cost, High Speed Automated Inspection”, 1991, Industry Report

31. Oosting, K.W. and Dickerson, S.L., “Feed Forward Control for Stabilization”, 1987, ASME

32. Oosting, K.W. and Dickerson, S.L., “Control of a Lightweight Robot Arm”, 1986, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Automation

33. Khatib and Oussama, SPRINGER HANDBOOK OF ROBOTICS, Springer Press, 2008.

34. Oosting, K.W., “Actuated Feedforward Controlled Solar Tracking System,” 2009, Patent Pending

35. Oosting, K.W., “Feedforward Control System for a Solar Tracker,” 2009, Patent Pending

36. Oosting, K.W., “Smart Solar Tracking,” July, 2010, InterSolar NA Presentation

37. MacKay, D. M. (1966): "Cerebral organization and the conscious control of action". In: J. C. Eccles (Ed.), Brain and conscious experience, Springer, pp. 422–440

38. Greene, P. H. (1969): "Seeking mathematical models of skilled actions". In: H. C. Muffley/D. Bootzin (Eds.), Biomechanics, Plenum, pp. 149–180>.


 * These are manually linked footnotes. Only 1, 2, 3, 13, 14, 25, 30, 31, 33, 37 and 38 are explicitly referred to in the current article text. If this article is salvagable (see below), we should put at least the referenced notes back between tags. -—Kvng 12:52, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Not an encyclopaedic article
This tone and style of this article is not encyclopaedic. It has been written like an academic paper. I tried to redeem the citations by converting them to inline citations but I still don't see how this article would benefit the general reader. Moreover, the article Feed-forward control explains the topic a little better, even though it has less content. Maybe we could just shift the citations there and delete this article? Rohini (talk) 19:36, 27 April 2013 (UTC)


 * There's already an open proposal to merge this article into Feed forward (control). I think that's what needs to be done. If noting from this article is salvageable for the merge, so be it. -—Kvng 12:52, 30 April 2013 (UTC)