Methods for steering car-like robots with trailers are investigated. A connection is demonstrated between Murray and Sastry's (1990, 1991) work of steering with integrally related sinusoids and Sussmann and Liu...
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Methods for steering car-like robots with trailers are investigated. A connection is demonstrated between Murray and Sastry's (1990, 1991) work of steering with integrally related sinusoids and Sussmann and Liu's (1991) recent work on asymptotic behavior of systems with high-frequency sinusoids as inputs. The merits of coordinate transformations, relative to the convergence properties, are discussed. Simulation results for a car-like robot with two trailers are presented.< >
A technique for stabilizing nonholonomic systems to trajectories is presented. It is well known that such systems cannot be stabilized to a point using smooth static-state feedback. The authors suggest the use of cont...
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A technique for stabilizing nonholonomic systems to trajectories is presented. It is well known that such systems cannot be stabilized to a point using smooth static-state feedback. The authors suggest the use of control laws for stabilizing a system about a trajectory, instead of a point. Given a nonlinear system and a desired nominal feasible trajectory, an explicit control law which will locally exponentially stabilize the system to the desired trajectory is given. The theory is applied to several examples, including a car-like robot.< >
A hardware and software system for the generation of video patterns that can be used for various vision tests, particularly depth perception, is presented. Among the capabilities of the system is generation of static ...
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A hardware and software system for the generation of video patterns that can be used for various vision tests, particularly depth perception, is presented. Among the capabilities of the system is generation of static and dynamic random dot stereograms that can be used to test depth perception. The system generates the patterns in real time, which provides the ability of moving the objects in the stereogram. The system is based on the TMS34010 graphics processor, operating at 40 MHz. The processor is interfaced to 512 Kb of video random access memory (VRAM), 256 Kb of dynamic random access memory (DRAM), and 16 Kb of erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM). The system also has an RS-232C serial communication part for communicating with a host computer and a red, green, and blue (RGB) video output for connection to an RGB color video monitor which displays the various video patterns. The software developed produces the various patterns and test experiments. A monitor program was also written to aid in developing any new software needed to produce new patterns or test experiments.< >
Intelligent robotic systems should be capable of performing a range of complex tasks in unstructured and dynamic environments. This chapter discusses a number of important items associated with intelligent robots, rol...
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Intelligent robotic systems should be capable of performing a range of complex tasks in unstructured and dynamic environments. This chapter discusses a number of important items associated with intelligent robots, role of vision sensing in intelligent robotics, and architecture for the design of an intelligent robot. The chapter also describes the computational task hierarchy that governs a model-based robot vision system, and presents a detailed tutorial on two important components of this hierarchy: image segmentation and matching. The main capabilities that intelligent robotic systems should possess include ability for perception of their environment, planning of their actions, and execution of the planned action. The two important components of a model-based vision system are image segmentation and the matching module. A procedure that allows transformation of 2D image coordinates into 3D world coordinates is also discussed in the chapter. The architecture and control aspects of an integrated sensor-based robotic system consist of six modules: supervisor, task planner, perception, motor, user interface, and knowledge-base. Intelligent, sensor-driven systems pose many challenging basic-research problems from a broad range of scientific and technological disciplines; however, there are many important application areas where such systems would be of significant value and utility, including hazardous environments such as nuclear plants, underwater, and space as well as many industrial-automation tasks. Recent advancements in the VLSI, computer-architectures, sensor-and robot-hardware, and artificial-intelligence fields may aid to the development of robust, practical, and cost-effective intelligent robotic systems for a wide variety of applications.
Robotic systems employed in the laboratory, in rehabilitation, and in surgery are reviewed. The advantages of using a robot system over manual procedures in the laboratory to prepare samples is discussed, and some of ...
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Robotic systems employed in the laboratory, in rehabilitation, and in surgery are reviewed. The advantages of using a robot system over manual procedures in the laboratory to prepare samples is discussed, and some of the obstacles are noted. A typical laboratory robot is described. Rehabilitative applications in the major research areas of tactile sensors, assistive devices for the blind, prosthetics, and orthotics are examined. Manipulators that can help a disabled individual with important everyday tasks and other assistive robotic systems in rehabilitation are described. A variety of robots that assist or perform surgery is surveyed. These applications include positioning in stereotactic neurosurgery, patient manipulation, an in vivo spinal kinematic instrument, and robotic radial keratotomy, among others.< >
A description is given of research efforts directed towards the development of an active exploration system performing acquisition, processing, and integration of sensory inputs from vision, point laser range, tactile...
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A description is given of research efforts directed towards the development of an active exploration system performing acquisition, processing, and integration of sensory inputs from vision, point laser range, tactile, and force/torque sensors. An attempt is made to bring out the rationale that robotic workcell exploration can benefit by utilizing noncontact (e.g., vision, range, and proximity) as well as contact (e.g., tactile and force/torque) sensors while accomplishing tasks such as object identification, object localization, object grasping and object manipulation. The experimental results presented indicate that the rationale utilized in the design of the multisensory robotic active exploration scheme can work successfully.< >
We present a method for making accurate, optimally localized measurements of the fractal dimension of images modeled as locally fractal Brownian surfaces. Fractal Brownian surfaces are good models for the multiscale a...
New inverse kinematic algorithms for generating redundant robot joint trajectories are proposed. The algorithms utilize the kinematic redundancy to improve robot motion performance (in joint space or Cartesian space) ...
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New inverse kinematic algorithms for generating redundant robot joint trajectories are proposed. The algorithms utilize the kinematic redundancy to improve robot motion performance (in joint space or Cartesian space) as specified by certain objective functions. The algorithms are based on the extension of the existing "joint-space command generator" technique in which a null space vector is introduced which optimizes a specific objective function along the joint trajectories. In this article, the algorithms for generating the joint position and velocity (PV) trajectories are extensively developed. The case for joint position, velocity, and acceleration (PVA) generation is also addressed. Application of the algorithms to a four-link revolute planar robot manipulator is demonstrated through simulation. Several motion performance criteria are considered and their results analyzed.
Image smoothing and segmentation algorithms are frequently formulated as optimization problems. Linear and nonlinear (reciprocal)resistive networks have solutions characterized by an extremum principle. Thus, appropri...
A reference force-tracking impedance control system is proposed, consisting of a conventional impedance controller in the inner-loop and a trajectory modifying controller in the outer-loop for force-tracking. The desi...
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A reference force-tracking impedance control system is proposed, consisting of a conventional impedance controller in the inner-loop and a trajectory modifying controller in the outer-loop for force-tracking. The design of the outer-loop is presented and the stability of the two-loop control system is analyzed. A computationally efficient control algorithm for the inner-loop is suggested. Simulation results are presented. The controller is able to achieve excellent position and force-tracking with unknown environment stiffness and the presence of a burr on the tracking surface.< >
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