An Approach of Optimising S-curve Trajectory for a Better Energy Consumption

In today's manufacturing industry, higher productivity and sustainability should go hand-in-hand. This practice is motivated by governmental regulations as well as customers' awareness. For the current time, one of the inexpensive solutions is motion planning for an improved energy consumption. This paper introduces a general approach that is valid for testing and optimising energy consumption of the input motion profile. The Particle Swarm Optimisation method (PSO) is used because of its mathematical simplicity and quick convergence. Being commonly used, s-curve motion profile is reconstructed and optimised for a better energy consumption. The results show potential energy reduction and better positioning for the system configured according to the optimised s-curve.