This article describes the proposal for an architecture that allows to easily connect different devices or modules to a system for computer integrated surgery (CIS). This would allow the reuse of expensive CIS devices...
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This article describes the proposal for an architecture that allows to easily connect different devices or modules to a system for computer integrated surgery (CIS). This would allow the reuse of expensive CIS devices like robots. Yet, in contrast to other surgical robot systems, this architecture does not require a robot - it just supports its use. Therefore, a robot and its attached tool are distinguished as two separate devices. All devices in this architecture have knowledge about themselves and thus hardly depend on other devices. The article motivates and describes this architecture and explains an example implementation.
In this paper we present an algorithm for planning the path of a 3 DOF mobile platform for a humanoid robot. It is simple enough to be executed online and yet powerful enough to generate a smooth path from starting po...
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In this paper we present an algorithm for planning the path of a 3 DOF mobile platform for a humanoid robot. It is simple enough to be executed online and yet powerful enough to generate a smooth path from starting point and orientation to a destination point with a different orientation. Thus we strive to achieve a human-like appearance of our robot that encourages the humans in vicinity to interact with our humanoid robot and enhances the possibilities of human-robot collaboration. We opted to use NURBS curves as the basis for our path planning algorithm
Tactile sensors systems are very important for today's service robotics. Designed as a holohedral cover for a robot, they are suitable for collision detection when working in unstructured environments, for human-m...
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Tactile sensors systems are very important for today's service robotics. Designed as a holohedral cover for a robot, they are suitable for collision detection when working in unstructured environments, for human-machine interaction or, with a high resolution, as object sensors enabling dexterous hands for reactive gripping. In this paper, we explain construction and working principle of resistive tactile sensor cells. The latter is based on the change of the electrical resistance between a conductive polymer and at least two electrodes. For this effect, we formulate a model to describe the dependence between the sensor's electrical resistance and the applied load. The model enables further improvements of resistive tactile sensor cells.
Tactile sensors can be used in many applications from object recognition in industrial grippers and medical devices to human-robot-interaction in service robotics. Among the different working principles of tactile sen...
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Tactile sensors can be used in many applications from object recognition in industrial grippers and medical devices to human-robot-interaction in service robotics. Among the different working principles of tactile sensors, the resistive is of particular interest. Those sensors are constructed in a simple way, are insensitive to shock and overdrive and can be designed with both, a high spatial resolution and a large sensing area. Conventional resistive tactile sensors are based on two electrode layers, located on opposed sides of a conductive polymer. Since this design has disadvantages affecting lifetime, we use a onesided contacting by the use of a regular electrode matrix. However, this increases the signal processing circuit's complexity. This paper introduces a novel kind of resistive tactile sensor matrix with an inter-electrode sampling technique for high speed measurements at an reduced number of electrodes and therefore a reduced complexity. The design of such sensor matrices is described and a method for comparing their performance based on the matrix efficiency is introduced. In addition, a working prototype was build and successfully tested.
In this paper, we present work about robot control architecture, assembly planning and task planning for manufacturing robots. The interface between an offline planning unit and control systems is handled with skill p...
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In this paper, we present work about robot control architecture, assembly planning and task planning for manufacturing robots. The interface between an offline planning unit and control systems is handled with skill primitives. Thus, skill primitives and skill primitive nets are explained in detail. Our long term aim is to combine robot control with task and assembly planning, so that with less human interaction manufacturing costs can be reduced. Even parallel kinematic machines provide enormous opportunities to reduce cycle times and thus the benefit should not be wasted by expensive specialized robot programming. Thus, we give an overview of our system and focus on some aspects to implement such a sophisticated system.
After performing intraoperative CT scans with the MAQUET Advanced Workplace for Image Guided Surgery System (AWIGS), the patient is moved back to the operating position, where a registration step of the image data is ...
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The execution of a grasp process with an anthropomorphic multi-finger robot gripper has to base on an appropriate movement planning and an accurate low-level control strategy. Stability problems may arise, if there is...
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The execution of a grasp process with an anthropomorphic multi-finger robot gripper has to base on an appropriate movement planning and an accurate low-level control strategy. Stability problems may arise, if there is a deviation, e.g. through position, orientation and/or size perturbation of the object, between planned and real executable movement patterns. One opportunity to react to such perturbations is the use of visual information. But if the there is no visual system available or even the object is concealed, e.g. through the robot gripper, the robot arm or another object, then the use of a visual system is insufficient. For this reason a low-level finger coordination depending on the actual state of the grasp (grasp phase) is presented. With this concept it is possible to coordinate the grasp on the level of the low-level controller and therefore to improve the grasp performance.
This paper introduces the concept of proactive execution of robot tasks in the context of human-robot cooperation with uncertain knowledge of the human's intentions. We present a system architecture that defines t...
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This paper introduces the concept of proactive execution of robot tasks in the context of human-robot cooperation with uncertain knowledge of the human's intentions. We present a system architecture that defines the necessary modules of the robot and their interactions with each other. The two key modules are the intention recognition that determines the human user's intentions and the planner that executes the appropriate tasks based on those intentions. We show how planning conflicts due to the uncertainty of the intention information are resolved by proactive execution of the corresponding task that optimally reduces the system's uncertainly. Finally, we present an algorithm for selecting this task and suggest a benchmark scenario.
Manipulating in the micro- or even nano world still poses a great challenge to robotics. Conventional (stationary) systems suffer from drawbacks regarding integration into process supervision and multi-robot approache...
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Manipulating in the micro- or even nano world still poses a great challenge to robotics. Conventional (stationary) systems suffer from drawbacks regarding integration into process supervision and multi-robot approaches, which become highly relevant to fight scaling effects. This paper describes work currently being carried out which aims to make automated manipulation of micrometer-scaled objects possible by robots with nanometer precision. The goal is to establish a small cluster of (up to five) micro robots equipped with on-board electronics, sensors and wireless power supply. Power autonomy has been reached using inductive energy transmission from an external wireless power supply system or a battery based system. Electronics requirements are fulfilled in the electronic module with the full custom integrated circuit design for the robot locomotion control and the closed loop force control for AFM tool in cell manipulation applications. The maximum velocity obtained is about 0.4 mm/s with a saw tooth voltage signals of 20Vpp and 2500 Hz. In order to keep a AFM tool on micro-robot a specific tip with integrated piezoresistance, instead of the classical laser beam methodology, is validated for force measurement.
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