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.
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.
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...
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.< >
The use of a single-camera 3D computervision system as a position sensor in order to perform robot calibration is examined. A vision feedback scheme, termed vision-guided robot control (VRC), that can improve the acc...
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The use of a single-camera 3D computervision system as a position sensor in order to perform robot calibration is examined. A vision feedback scheme, termed vision-guided robot control (VRC), that can improve the accuracy of a robot in an online iterative manner is described. This system demonstrates the advantage that can be achieved by a Cartesian space robot control scheme when end-effector position and orientation are actually sensed instead of calculated from the kinematic equations. The viability of using a vision system for robot calibration is demonstrated by experimentally showing that the accuracy of a robot can be drastically improved. The vision system can also be used to determine the repeatability and accuracy of a robot in a simple, efficient, and quick manner. Experimental work with an IBM electric drive robot and the proposed vision system produced a 97- and 145-fold improvement in the position and orientation accuracy of the robot, respectively.< >
It has been shown recently that robot inverse kinematic transformation can be easily carried out by using a nonlinear dynamic system called “joint space command generator.” In this paper, an adapti...
It has been shown recently that robot inverse kinematic transformation can be easily carried out by using a nonlinear dynamic system called “joint space command generator.” In this paper, an adaptive version of the command generator is proposed. The main feature of this command generator is that the inverse Jacobian is estimated on-line (using least-squares algorithms), thus the explicit form of the inverse Jacobian is not required. Since the Jacobian is dependent on the end-effector orientation representation, the adaptive command generator is then inherently flexible in accommodating any choice of orientation representation during Cartesian trajectory planning. The only knowledge required is the forward kinematics of the robot. Thus inverse kinematic transformation of robot trajectories can be carried out with a minimum amount of kinematic information. Extensive simulation studies of the proposed scheme have been carried out which showed that the adaptive command generator is computationally feasible and highly accurate. Different orientation representations have been tested with equal success. Some typical simulation results are presented to illustrate the performance of the adaptive command generator.
Sensing is one of the most essential aspects of any robotic application, be it manufacturing or any automated process. Robotic sensors can be divided into two classes of " internal " and " external &quo...
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Sensing is one of the most essential aspects of any robotic application, be it manufacturing or any automated process. Robotic sensors can be divided into two classes of " internal " and " external ". Examples of the first group are position or velocity, while the second group includes proximity, touch, or vision to name a few. The other important problem in manufacturing is interfacing with the environment within a cell. The object of this tutorial paper is to survey the two issues of "sensing" and "interfacing" in robotics and manufacturing.
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