A new method for global path planning of mobile robots is presented using an Evolutionary Strategy (ES). A two-dimensional autonomous path planning problem of a point mobile robot among polygonal obstacles is formulat...
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The crawl motion of a quadruped walking robot is considered as the combination of two forms. One results from a parallel manipulator composed of the standing legs and robot's body, and the another is the swing leg...
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The crawl motion of a quadruped walking robot is considered as the combination of two forms. One results from a parallel manipulator composed of the standing legs and robot's body, and the another is the swing leg's movement. The walk conditions satisfied with the constraint of robot's mechanical structure are derived and the closed-form direct kinematics solution of a quadruped robot is presented. It is shown that the direct kinematics of the robot involves solving a sixteenth-degree polynomial of a single variable. A numerical example is also presented and the results are verified by an inverse kinematics analysis. The approach can be used to derive the kinematics of the other gaits for quadruped robots.
We describe an evolution strategy (ES) using the statistical information of subgroups obtained automatically by a similarity metric of individuals at each generation. Arithmetical crossover is done with an elite indiv...
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Artificial intelligent robots use the subsumption architecture on an increasing level of competence behaviors in many applications due to the advantage of dividing the control system according to the task achieving be...
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Artificial intelligent robots use the subsumption architecture on an increasing level of competence behaviors in many applications due to the advantage of dividing the control system according to the task achieving behaviors. One important application for a mobile robot is to reach a target while avoiding obstacles based on fuzzy behavior-based control. Apart from the behavior-based approach, there are other applications where the manipulators need to avoid obstacles and track a given path, and they involve inverse kinematic techniques in controlling the system. We study a manipulator reaching a target while avoiding obstacles based on a fuzzy behavior-based control approach. An additional element is also combined with the controller to compensate the gravitational effect. Simulations were carried out for 3 initial conditions and the results show that the fuzzy behavior approach is suitable for controlling manipulators.
Provides a brief discussion on control and motion planning approaches to robotic manipulators or mobile robots with soft computing techniques. In particular, the paper presents the latest accomplishments and explores ...
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Provides a brief discussion on control and motion planning approaches to robotic manipulators or mobile robots with soft computing techniques. In particular, the paper presents the latest accomplishments and explores future trends in such a field. Specific topics of interest to this survey include: (1) the identification of a dynamic model for multi-link manipulators by using neural networks (NNs) with genetic algorithms (GAs), (2) behavior-based control of mobile robots or manipulators by applying NNs or fuzzy reasoning, together with evolutionary computations such as GAs, genetic programming (GP), or evolutionary strategy (ES), (3) a path planning problem with obstacle avoidance for mobile robots or manipulators by using evolutionary computations, and (4) a motion planning approach to configure self-organizing robots by applying GAs.
In this paper, we describe the dependence of an initial state in a self-organizing robot on an optimal structure configuration, where a “fractum” is used as a basic unit. Each robot operates on a genetic algorithm (...
In this paper, we describe the dependence of an initial state in a self-organizing robot on an optimal structure configuration, where a “fractum” is used as a basic unit. Each robot operates on a genetic algorithm (GA) by itself, and all of them will produce a desired configuration. However, problems such as a deadlock state can happen depending on the initial configuration. A deadlock state means a state in which no robots can move because each robot moves autonomously. It is proved from simulations that a difference in the initial configuration can affect both the deadlock rate and the number of movements of fracta needed to obtain an optimal structure configuration.
A new approach to analysis of robot stability is presented by defining the statically stable area for the foot placement. The proposed approach is applied not only to generate the free gait for a quadruped robot walki...
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A new approach to analysis of robot stability is presented by defining the statically stable area for the foot placement. The proposed approach is applied not only to generate the free gait for a quadruped robot walking in difficult terrain, but also to judge the robot stability. The effectiveness of this method is demonstrated by a practical example.
Describes the construction of a task-oriented configuration structure in the cellular robotic system as a three-dimensional self-organizing robot by using genetic algorithms (GAs). To deal with the optimal configurati...
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Describes the construction of a task-oriented configuration structure in the cellular robotic system as a three-dimensional self-organizing robot by using genetic algorithms (GAs). To deal with the optimal configuration in a three-dimensional environment, a special fitness of a GA is introduced: it consists of the reachable height and lifting capacity of the robot. The simulation result shows that the present task-oriented configuration structure method in three dimensional environment can be used to find the desired configuration for a given task.
Proposes a method for identification of dynamics of a multi-link robot arm using Runge-Kutta-Gill neural networks (RKGNN). Shape adaptive radial basis function (RBF) neural networks have been employed with an evolutio...
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Proposes a method for identification of dynamics of a multi-link robot arm using Runge-Kutta-Gill neural networks (RKGNN). Shape adaptive radial basis function (RBF) neural networks have been employed with an evolutionary algorithm to optimize the shape parameters and the weights of the RKGNN. Due to the fact that the RKGNN can accurately grasp the changing rates of the states, this method can effectively be used for long term prediction of the states of the robot arm dynamics. Unlike in conventional methods, the proposed method can even be used without input torque information because a torque network is part of the functional network. This method can be proposed as an effective option for dynamics identification for manipulators with high degrees of freedom, as opposed to the derivation of dynamic equations and making additional hardware changes in the case of statistical parameter identification such as linear least-squares method.
Addresses the issue of flexible geometric approximations of polygonal obstacles for intelligent autonomous robot (IAR) navigation which is an extension of our previous work (1998). The trajectory learning problem for ...
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Addresses the issue of flexible geometric approximations of polygonal obstacles for intelligent autonomous robot (IAR) navigation which is an extension of our previous work (1998). The trajectory learning problem for IAR navigation is formulated as a constrained discrete-time-optimal control problem where the polygonal obstacles are the constraints. From the visibility and sensor modeling concepts, polygonal obstacles within the environment are approximated as either by circles or by ellipses depending on the shape and size of them. Furthermore, some practical issues are identified and resolved through these type of approximations. The effectiveness of these methods is illustrated by some simulations of the robot within a heavily obstacled environment.
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