As labor shortages and safety regulations become more prominent, the need for human-in-the-loop automation of excavators is increasing. To meet this demand, we have developed a comprehensive modeling method for the ex...
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(纸本)9798350342734
As labor shortages and safety regulations become more prominent, the need for human-in-the-loop automation of excavators is increasing. To meet this demand, we have developed a comprehensive modeling method for the excavator arm using nonlinear optimization approaches, including a simplified model that maps the task space to the joint space, as well as an equivalent model that maps the joint space to the actuator space. These models were then used to build a feedforward-PID joint velocity controller and a joint trajectory controller combined with position feedback, which forms the core of our proposed semi-automatic control system for the excavator arm. Our deployment scheme is simple and efficient, and has been deployed on two excavators of different makes and sizes. Experiments show that our deployment scheme performs well on both excavators, with an average error of 0.05 rad/s for the velocity controller and less than 5 cm for the trajectory controller. Using our semi-automatic system, we have completed demonstration experiments for precise digging and grading operations. A demonstration video can be found at https://***/N6I0WZGSF68.
Design automation is a core technology in industrial design software and an important branch of knowledge-worker automation. For example, electronic design automation (EDA) has played an important role in both academi...
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Design automation is a core technology in industrial design software and an important branch of knowledge-worker automation. For example, electronic design automation (EDA) has played an important role in both academia and industry. Design automation for intelligent robots refers to the construction of unified modular graph models for the morphologies (body), controllers (brain), and vision systems (eye) of intelligent robots under digital twin architectures, which effectively supports the automation of the morphology, controller, and vision system design processes of intelligent robots by taking advantage of the powerful capabilities of genetic programming, evolutionary computation, deep learning, reinforcement learning, and causal reasoning in model representation, optimization, perception, decision making, and reasoning. Compared with traditional design methods, MOdular DEsigN automation (MODENA) methods can significantly improve the design efficiency and performance of robots, effectively avoiding the repetitive trial-and-error processes of traditional design methods, and promoting automatic discovery of innovative designs. Thus, it is of considerable research significance to study MODENA methods for intelligent robots. To this end, this paper provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of applying MODENA in intelligent robots, analyzes the current problems and challenges in the field, and provides an outlook for future research. First, the design automation for the robot morphologies and controllers is reviewed, individually, with automated design of control strategies for swarm robots also discussed, which has emerged as a prominent research focus recently. Next, the integrated design automation of both the morphologies and controllers for robotic systems is presented. Then, the design automation of the vision systems of intelligent robots is summarized when vision systems have become one of the most important modules for intelligent robotic systems. Then
Through investigating the traditional echo state network, their output structure has only one output layer using the same output weight learning method, such that the networked prediction results is not always reliabl...
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The applications of visual tracking in real life are becoming more and more extensive, and attention paid to it is getting higher and higher. The problem of traditional particle filtering is that the recommended distr...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538670576
The applications of visual tracking in real life are becoming more and more extensive, and attention paid to it is getting higher and higher. The problem of traditional particle filtering is that the recommended distribution probability density generally does not include the target current position state information. The Camshift algorithm introduced in the particle filtering prediction particle phase is proposed, and the current position information is added to the new sampling particle. Using the directional feature, the target edge is extracted by Snake, the observation probability of the directional model feature is calculated. The algorithm greatly reduces the problem of particle degradation and improves the tracking accuracy. And the experimental results show that the algorithm can be used to solve the single-target and multi-target tracking problems with good robustness.
The production of power electronic modules requires cost-effective manufacturing of customer-specific small batches to meet today's requirements. Consequently, traditional methods of production are being replaced ...
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(纸本)9798350315684
The production of power electronic modules requires cost-effective manufacturing of customer-specific small batches to meet today's requirements. Consequently, traditional methods of production are being replaced by highly flexible and fully automated manufacturing processes. This paper introduces a novel approach: a robot-assisted laser beam welding method designed to join copper clips with power modules' Direct Bonded Copper substrates and power terminals. The proposed setup involves using two six-axis articulated robots to assemble the components. Additionally, stationary scanner optics are utilized to guide a laser beam with a wavelength of 515 nm in order to establish the connections. To investigate the feasibility of the proposed approach initial experiments which focus on examining the influence of the pick and place process on the laser beam welding were conducted. The results demonstrate the feasibility of the manufacturing concept while showing a correlation between the geometry of the copper clamp, the clamping force and the resulting gap between the welded copper clamp and the Direct Bonded Copper. The findings obtained from these experiments contribute valuable insights toward the development of a flexible and reliable production method for power electronic modules.
There is a considerable need for assistive dressing among people with disabilities, and robots have the potential to fulfill this need. However, training such a robot would require extensive trials in order to learn t...
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Robotic layup of pre-impregnated (prepreg) fiber plies onto complex molds is a hitherto unsolved problem. At the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), we have gathered an international consortium with industrial keypl...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783030319939;9783030319922
Robotic layup of pre-impregnated (prepreg) fiber plies onto complex molds is a hitherto unsolved problem. At the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), we have gathered an international consortium with industrial keyplayers for addressing this gap in the FlexDraper project. We use an underactuated array of suction cups to handle the plies and our approach is based on model- and simulation-based control of the shaping of the tool and the free hanging plies during the draping procedure. This requires fast computable models in the draping control loop. In this paper, we present a tool model that predicts the 6D configuration of the suction cups based on the actuator positions and subsequently a ply model that predicts the shape of the free hanging prepreg fiber plies with perpendicular fiber directions, where the ply is held (clamped) at a set of locations that are not too far apart. Rather than using computationally expensive physical techniques, e.g. FEM simulations, our ply model is only based on interpolations between the held locations satisfying curve length constraints in fiber directions. The paper also contains experimental tests for the accuracy of the overall model.
A general tracking control problem is solved for a chaotic system (Duffing oscillator) with unknown parameters, under the additional requirement that the tracking error must remain inside an imposed hard constraint. T...
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A general tracking control problem is solved for a chaotic system (Duffing oscillator) with unknown parameters, under the additional requirement that the tracking error must remain inside an imposed hard constraint. The barrier Lyapunov functions technique is applied in an adaptive backstepping scheme. Several system properties are investigated and benefits coming from state variable constraints are discussed. The same approach may be used for chaos synchronization and chaotification.
The paper deals with the output observation problem for a class of distributed parameter systems. We describe the design procedure by deriving sufficient conditions to be satisfied by a functional observer which does ...
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The paper deals with the output observation problem for a class of distributed parameter systems. We describe the design procedure by deriving sufficient conditions to be satisfied by a functional observer which does the job. The plant is described by a state space model with the system operator generating a strongly continuous group. We assume that both the input and the output operators of the plant and the observer are bounded.
This paper presents an online motion planning strategy for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in an obstacle-strewn environment that is complicated by uncertainties stemming from unmodeled effects and environmental distu...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9780980740448
This paper presents an online motion planning strategy for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in an obstacle-strewn environment that is complicated by uncertainties stemming from unmodeled effects and environmental disturbances, particularly cross-winds. During execution underlying wind currents are estimated and applied to the forward model used in online trajectory planning. To facilitate on-board computations, a reduced order forward model is used. We consider a 2D slice of the operating environment and assume that the UAV has independent bounded control over airspeed and altitude. Results are demonstrated from simulation using a medium fidelity non-linear model of a small UAV (Sig Rascal) under wind disturbances of varying magnitude and direction. The approach is tested in base winds in excess of 22 knots (50% forward speed). Results suggest that the method provides an efficient strategy for navigating to the desired destination by re-routing the trajectory as opposed to pure-pursuit methods under significant disturbance.
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