This paper introduces a sliding mode control strategy for tracking the gradient of an artificial potential field, The control methodology is applicable to fully actuated holonomic robotic systems with n-degrees of fre...
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This paper introduces a sliding mode control strategy for tracking the gradient of an artificial potential field, The control methodology is applicable to fully actuated holonomic robotic systems with n-degrees of freedom, The controller yields exact tracking of the gradient lines and is invariant with respect to parametric uncertainty and disturbances in systemdynamics, A detailed case study for mobile robots introduces the equilibrium point placement method for designing harmonic planar potential fields for circular obstacle security zones. Diffeomorph mappings can be utilized for more complex obstacle security zones, The gradient of the harmonic potential field is shown to always lead away from the obstacle security zone and to continuously approach the goal point.
The authors propose a visual tracking method for stereo laparoscopes, which is robust, simple, and operates at a maximum rate of 17 Hz. The use of a stereo laparoscope enables the robot to track the instrument in both...
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The authors propose a visual tracking method for stereo laparoscopes, which is robust, simple, and operates at a maximum rate of 17 Hz. The use of a stereo laparoscope enables the robot to track the instrument in both lateral and longitudinal motions. Due to the multiplicity of problems with shape analysis, the authors do not check for the presence of any particular shape or structure. Instead, they use color information alone for instrument segmentation. The non-uniqueness of the instrument color inspires the authors to distinguish it by use of an artificial color mark. They analyzed the color distribution of typical laparoscopic images and chose a color that did not appear to mark the instrument. With color image segmentation, the mark can be correctly located in the image and used to control the robot motion. Thus, even if only a very small part of the instrument is visible, reliable data can still be obtained for robot control. The image processing component is implemented on a commercially available image processing system MaxVideo MV200 (Datacube, Inc., Danvers, MA). The robot the authors use is the AESOP 1000 (Automated Endoscope system for Optimal Positioning) (Computer Motion, Inc., Goleta, CA).
This paper continues demonstration of the benefits of parallel multibody simulation. In Part I implicit integration schemes combined with a modified inverse dynamic formulation were proposed for parallel multibody sim...
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This paper continues demonstration of the benefits of parallel multibody simulation. In Part I implicit integration schemes combined with a modified inverse dynamic formulation were proposed for parallel multibody simulation. In Part II the modified inverse dynamics algorithm and computation of the integrator's Jacobian are split up into independent work packages for parallelization on medium-and coarse-grain levels, respectively. The farming concept, which organizes the flow of work and result packages through a network of processors, is presented. Transputers are used to build a distributed memory multiprocessor system, where both the medium- and coarse-grain approaches are implemented, resulting in the PARSIM-package for parallel multibody dynamics. The simulation of an off-road vehicle and a multibody model for a cable demonstrate the considerable savings in simulation times achieved by the new software package.
The benefits of parallel multibody simulation are demonstrated in this paper. In Part I an extensive analysis of the options available in parallel multibody system simulation is given. As a result of this analysis, im...
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The benefits of parallel multibody simulation are demonstrated in this paper. In Part I an extensive analysis of the options available in parallel multibody system simulation is given. As a result of this analysis, implicit integration schemes are proposed for simulation and a modified inverse dynamic formulation is presented, which generates the equations of motion directly, in an implicit differential-algebraic form. In Part II medium-and coarse-grain levels will be exploited for the parallelization of the modified inverse dynamic formulation and the integrator's Jacobian, respectively. Both approaches are implemented on a Transputer network, resulting in the PARSIM-package for parallel multibody simulation. Computational efficiences of the package are demonstrated.
The design of robust low-order controllers based on a high-order model of a generic flexible test structure with collocated sensors/actuators is considered. A new synthesis technique which combines the projective and ...
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The design of robust low-order controllers based on a high-order model of a generic flexible test structure with collocated sensors/actuators is considered. A new synthesis technique which combines the projective and the positive-real control concepts is developed and used for control design. The proposed method alleviates the known difficulty of the projective approach where the residual (nonretained) closed-loop modes can become unstable, and guarantees the strictly positive realness of the controller. Two approaches for selecting the free design parameters of the design technique are provided. Based on the new technique, two global controllers and one decentralised controller are designed with their performance evaluated and compared.
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Varga, ADLR-Oberpfaffenhofen
Institute for Robotics and System Dynamics German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR) Wessling Germany
A new algorithm is proposed for the pole assignment of single-input linear time-invariant systems, The proposed algorithm belongs to the family of Hessenberg methods and is based on an implicit multishift QR-like tech...
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A new algorithm is proposed for the pole assignment of single-input linear time-invariant systems, The proposed algorithm belongs to the family of Hessenberg methods and is based on an implicit multishift QR-like technique, The new method compares favorably in many respects (speed, memory usage) with existing numerically stable methods, Its improved vectorizability guarantees good opportunities for parallel implementation on high-performance computers.
Outliers in a given training data set can cause substantial deterioration of the approximation realized by a neural network architecture. Robustization refers to the process of enhancing a learning method to deal with...
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Outliers in a given training data set can cause substantial deterioration of the approximation realized by a neural network architecture. Robustization refers to the process of enhancing a learning method to deal with data containing outliers. The robustization of a learning method for training RBF networks for function approximation is presented leading to a novel efficient robust learning method for this architecture class. Its experimental evaluation confirms the expectations created from its theoretical foundations.
Four-wheel car steering is modeled by a single-track model with nonlinear tire characteristics. A generic control law for robust decoupling of lateral and yaw motion by yaw-rate feedback to front-wheel steering is der...
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Four-wheel car steering is modeled by a single-track model with nonlinear tire characteristics. A generic control law for robust decoupling of lateral and yaw motion by yaw-rate feedback to front-wheel steering is derived. Ideal steering dynamics are achieved by velocity-scheduled lateral acceleration feedback to front-wheel steering. For robust yaw stabilization a velocity-scheduled yaw-rate feedback to rear-wheel steering is given, by which the linearized system gets velocity-independent yaw eigenvalues.
The paper tries to outline the state of the art in space robotics. It discusses the technologies used in ROTEX, the first remotely controlled space robot which flew with the shuttle Columbia in April 1993, but it also...
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The paper tries to outline the state of the art in space robotics. It discusses the technologies used in ROTEX, the first remotely controlled space robot which flew with the shuttle Columbia in April 1993, but it also gives a review of the major space robot projects envisioned by different nations for the next decade. The mechatronics and dynamics aspects of space robots including free-flying systems are briefly discussed. Broader attention is given to the telerobotic and teleoperational control loop structures, including predictive delay-compensating graphics simulation. The paper finally tries to emphasize that by task-level programming (involving 'learning by showing' on a high level) future space robots will be powerful tools for scientists and ground operators which are not robot specialists. The tele-sensor programming concept of ROTEX was a first step in this direction. We plead for flying a variety of space robot systems in the near future in order to enhance experience with and confidence in these technologies as quickly as possible.
We propose numerically reliable state-space algorithms for computing several coprime factorizations of rational matrices: (1) factorizations with factors having poles in a given stability domain;(2) factorizations wit...
We propose numerically reliable state-space algorithms for computing several coprime factorizations of rational matrices: (1) factorizations with factors having poles in a given stability domain;(2) factorizations with proper stable factors;(3) factorizations with inner and J-inner denominators. The new algorithms are based on a recursive generalized Schur algorithm for pole dislocation. They are generally applicable whether the underlying descriptor state-space representation is minimal or not, and whether it is stabilizable/detectable or not. The proposed algorithms are useful in solving various computational problems for both standard and descriptor system representations. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Inc.
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