A new paradigm of event-based robotic control, called reference adaptive impedance control, is presented for partially constrained robots under uncertain or unknown environmental constraints. The reference adaptive im...
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A new paradigm of event-based robotic control, called reference adaptive impedance control, is presented for partially constrained robots under uncertain or unknown environmental constraints. The reference adaptive impedance control determines the desired next state adaptively in such a way as to follow the optimal path from the current state, where the optimal path is generated with the environmental constraints updated through time. The embedded impedance control provides a mechanism for collecting more complete information on the environment. An application to obstacle avoidance trajectory planning is given with computer simulations.
—This paper describes a multiple criteria, statistical technique for mobile robot evaluation. The evaluation method measures the time and energy costs of a particular class of exploratory mission. The method is imple...
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The emergence and effectiveness of communication interface in a colony of autonomous agents is discussed in this paper. The robotic agents sense the world within which they are embedded, while performing specific task...
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One way to find an optimal plan is to enumerate all plans and evaluate a quality metric for each plan. However it is well known that N parts can have up to O(2/sup N/) assembly plans. Reducing N by grouping parts has ...
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One way to find an optimal plan is to enumerate all plans and evaluate a quality metric for each plan. However it is well known that N parts can have up to O(2/sup N/) assembly plans. Reducing N by grouping parts has been proposed earlier but to our knowledge has not been formally defined. In this paper we define two types of groups in terms of part geometry using the nondirectional blocking graph and binary adjacency matrices defined by Wilson and Latombe (1994). We give a polynomial time algorithm for identifying serial and parallel groups. We tested the algorithm on two planar assemblies where it reduced plan time by a factor of 4.
In this paper a method for collision detection and collision avoidance for dual arm robots is proposed. The collision detection, a fast geometric approach based on link intersection, detects the collision and construc...
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In this paper a method for collision detection and collision avoidance for dual arm robots is proposed. The collision detection, a fast geometric approach based on link intersection, detects the collision and constructs the collision region for given trajectories. The time delay planning determines the minimum necessary time delay to avoid collisions using a potential field representation for collision regions. The planning is based on a flexible, massively parallel approach. It effectively avoids any local minima problems due to the potential field representation and can be used regardless of the complexity of the collision region (e.g., concave or complicated regions).
This paper describes a multiple criteria, statistical technique for mobile robot evaluation. The evaluation method measures the time and energy costs of a particular class of exploratory missions. The method is implem...
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This paper describes a multiple criteria, statistical technique for mobile robot evaluation. The evaluation method measures the time and energy costs of a particular class of exploratory missions. The method is implemented in the special case of one wheeled mobile robot in the laboratory, which was made to execute several (approximately 100) instances of the mission. It is proposed that a validated, dynamic model of the robot embedded in a simulated mission scenario is to be used to study alternate robot designs in a small 'neighborhood' of the existing physical system. Such a simulation was built and is described here. Results from trials with the physical robot and its simulated counterpart are compared and shown to agree well. The simulation is used to evaluate designs not constructed in the laboratory, and results are discussed.
A broad computer research program that includes many topics of basic research such as perceptual grouping, stereo and motion analysis, shape description and object recognition as well as many application areas such as...
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A broad computer research program that includes many topics of basic research such as perceptual grouping, stereo and motion analysis, shape description and object recognition as well as many application areas such as aerial image analysis, moving target analysis and vehicle navigation are being conducted at the University of Southern California. The objective of the research is to construct 'generic' vision system. A generic system is one that is capable of working in a variety of domains, or at least is capable of being reconfigured rapidly to do so.
A fixture is an arrangement of fixturing modules that locate and hold a workpart during a manufacturing operation. In this work we address the fixturing problem in the plane. We consider fixtures with frictionless poi...
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Load balancing is one of the central problems that have to be solved in parallel computation. Here, the problem of distributed, dynamic load balancing for massive parallelism is addressed.A new local method, which rea...
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Load balancing is one of the central problems that have to be solved in parallel computation. Here, the problem of distributed, dynamic load balancing for massive parallelism is addressed.A new local method, which realizes a physical analogy to equilibrating liquids in multi-dimensional tori or hypercubes, is presented. It is especially suited for communication mechanisms with low set-up to transfer ratio occurring in tightly-coupled or SIMD systems. By successive shifting single load elements to the direct neighbors, the load is automatically transferred to lightly loaded *** to former methods, the proposed Liquid model has two main advantages. First, the task of load sharing is combined with the task of load balancing, where the former has priority. This property is valuable in many applications and important for highly dynamic load distribution. Second, the Liquid model has high efficiency, Asymptotically, it needsO(D K Ldiff) load transfers to reach the balanced state in aD-dimensional torus withKprocessors per dimension and a maximum initial load difference ofLdiff. The Liquid model clearly outperforms an earlier load balancing approach, the *** a survey of related research, analytical results within a formal framework are derived. These results are validated by worst-case simulations in one- and two-dimeasional tori with up to two thousand processors.
Performing fine manipulations with multifingered robot hands makes high demands on the control algorithms and the speed of the control computer. Mainly nonlinear friction problems and plant uncertainties require inten...
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Performing fine manipulations with multifingered robot hands makes high demands on the control algorithms and the speed of the control computer. Mainly nonlinear friction problems and plant uncertainties require intensive fine-tuning of a controller. This paper gives insight into the frictional behaviour of geared finger links. The behaviour has been approximated by a friction model. Considering the estimated system parameters two kinds of controllers are developed: a simple PD controller with switchable I-part and a PD-controller with a fuzzy friction compensation working in parallel. The results of both controllers are presented and compared in this paper.
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