Flexible manufacturing puts high demands on industrial automation in terms of affordable and competitive solutions and is of key importance for short-lot production typically found in small and medium sized enterprise...
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Flexible manufacturing puts high demands on industrial automation in terms of affordable and competitive solutions and is of key importance for short-lot production typically found in small and medium sized enterprises, situations where today manual labour is extensively used despite e.g. , environmental issues and harsh working conditions. Key factors in the successful introduction of new robot automation concepts are that they provide both the desired performance and quality (technical capability), but also that they enable fast deployment and extend available task repertoire. The Gantry-Tau manipulator is a new robot concept which in contrast to other high-performance parallel kinematic manipulators (PKM), has a large, open working range. Its high stiffness makes it ideal for a wide range of tasks such as grinding, deburring, and cutting. An additional aspect of such a PKM is the modularity, which in this work has been studied in terms of possibilities for assembly and mechanical reconfiguration at the end-user site, integration of such a kinematically different robot with a standard industrial controller, and new needs for methods/tools to support simple (re)configuration. A range of software tools and methods were found to be useful and necessary for efficient engineering and integration of the concept in typical SME manufacturing scenarios. For experimental evaluation, two full-scale prototype robots were designed and built, the kinematic software was developed and integrated into a couple of different robot control systems, robot CAD software was adapted to the configuration needs, and both simulations and physical experiments were carried out. Our findings make us believe that enhanced software tools should be integrated on a higher symbolic (or meta-) level to better support transformation of data and code generation, but also that the Gantry-Tau type of robot (with adequate software support) will bring a new dimension of flexibility into SME manufacturing.
Based on Bayes theory of hypothesis testing, a new DWTdomain decoder structure for image watermarking has been proposed in this work. The statistical distribution of wavelet coefficients is deliberately described with...
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Recent years has seen much progress in the theory and application of iterative learning control schemes for both linear and (classes of) nonlinear dynamics. In the case of the former, many algorithms based on minimizi...
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Policy Optimization (PO) algorithms have been proven particularly suited to handle the high-dimensionality of real-world continuous control tasks. In this context, Trust Region Policy Optimization methods represent a ...
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In this paper, an adaptive control approach is proposed for performance of constrained robot end-effector movements in presence of uncertainty. In real-world scenarios, complex physical phenomena occuring at the place...
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(纸本)9781467371605
In this paper, an adaptive control approach is proposed for performance of constrained robot end-effector movements in presence of uncertainty. In real-world scenarios, complex physical phenomena occuring at the place of interaction may introduce nonlinearities in the system dynamics, which have to be taken into account for proper system control. We currently propose an Extremum Seeking (ES) Model Reference Adaptive control (MRAC) approach for state tracking of multiple-input multiple-output systems which enclose nonlinearities in their dynamics and involve parametric uncertainty by employing Adaptive Dynamic Inversion (ADI). According to ADI, system nonlinearities are assumed known and are taken into account in the design of the system control law. The proposed scheme is based on MRAC and ADI while the unknown controller parameters are adapted by ES control. The system is shown to achieve global and asymptotic reference state tracking under the proposed control law by performing Lyapunov and averaging analysis. The approach is evaluated in simulation and in an experimental robot task.
This paper aims to introduce an application to Kalman Filtering Theory, which is rather unconventional. Recent experiments have shown that many natural phenomena, especially from ecology or meteorology, could be monit...
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The problem of model-based fault detection in the presence of both parametric uncertainty and noise is addressed in this paper. Intervals are used to represent the uncertainty in the system parameters and interval ext...
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The problem of model-based fault detection in the presence of both parametric uncertainty and noise is addressed in this paper. Intervals are used to represent the uncertainty in the system parameters and interval extensions of parity equations are used as adaptive threshold selectors. A proper combination in time of different (interval) parity equations, together with a robust indicator, is used to maintain a good sensitivity to faults whilst avoiding the effect of noise. The results in the application to the detection of different faults in a DC motor are used to show the good properties of the proposed method.
Typical autonomous driving systems are a combination of machine learning algorithms (often involving neural networks) and classical feedback controllers. Whilst significant progress has been made in recent years on th...
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Motivated by the problems of vision-based mobile robot map building and localization, we present a comparative study of statistical methods for matching image features in a wide base line between learning and recognit...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538695777;9781538695760
Motivated by the problems of vision-based mobile robot map building and localization, we present a comparative study of statistical methods for matching image features in a wide base line between learning and recognition phases. A general methodology called feature-class method for the problem of fast matching image features in a wide base line is described in the context of mobile robots. The objective of this work is to discuss and to show the performance of such methods in an example of visual SLAM, with experiments done with real data.
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