One of the main problems of present-day microsystem technology (MST) is the assembly of a whole microsystem from different micro-components. This paper presents an automated micromanipulation desktop station the main ...
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One of the main problems of present-day microsystem technology (MST) is the assembly of a whole microsystem from different micro-components. This paper presents an automated micromanipulation desktop station the main feature of which are piezoelectrically driven microrobots placed on a highly precise x-y table of a microscope. The microrobots can perform high-precise manipulations (with an accuracy of up to 10 nm) and the transport of very small objects (at a speed of several mm/sec). To control the desktop station automatically, a sensor system is provided for fine and for gross positioning of the robots, respectively. Apart from assembly tasks this automated station can be used, for examples, for handling biological cells or testing silicon chips.
Strong international competition forces enterprises to reduce organizational overhead and cost. Today's industrial practices allow, in general, only the selection of whole planning and control systems for CIM (e.g...
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Strong international competition forces enterprises to reduce organizational overhead and cost. Today's industrial practices allow, in general, only the selection of whole planning and control systems for CIM (e.g., CAD systems, PP&C systems,...). These systems can be adapted only in a limited range to the user requirements. With the introduction of executable enterprise models to the industrial environment, it is expected that it will be possible to design tailored CIM systems built of standardized software modules which will lead to higher complexity of the planning process for software systems. Thus, today's planning and selection approaches will face more and more problems. In order to master the increasing complexity of the planning of software systems for enterprises, new planning methods and tools are required. An integrated approach to software system planning and selection based on CIMOSA enterprise models was developed. The underlying idea of the approach is the conversion of the planning problem into an equivalent constraint satisfaction problem. The conversion process can be accomplished fully automatically.
The use of manipulator systems with many degrees of freedoms is essential to expand the field of potential applications. This paper presents a distributed approach for executing task-level programs for cooperating man...
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The use of manipulator systems with many degrees of freedoms is essential to expand the field of potential applications. This paper presents a distributed approach for executing task-level programs for cooperating manipulators or one-arm systems with many degrees of freedom. At task level, only the movement of the objects to be manipulated is specified. The according manipulator motions are then calculated by assigning local intelligence to each joint. The local intelligence enables the joint agents to calculate in parallel their appropriate movements to make the end effector reach the desired position. During execution, each joint evaluates sensor data to compensate for execution errors, to react on unexpected obstacles and to provide the manipulator coordination. Therefore, a distributed fuzzy rule base has been developed. As this local evaluation may lead to non-optimal overall behavior of the manipulator, the joint agents communicate to provide global suboptimality.
A mobile robot that navigates in an unknown or changing environment needs to maintain a dynamic model of its environment in order to update existing knowledge about the world. This paper addresses the problem of how t...
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A mobile robot that navigates in an unknown or changing environment needs to maintain a dynamic model of its environment in order to update existing knowledge about the world. This paper addresses the problem of how to update a local model of the perceivable environment of a mobile robot and how to produce a description of newly perceived obstacles. A new hybrid concept is presented which combines the advantages of parameter- and grid-based modelling techniques. By introducing local grids that only cover areas where new obstacles are expected, the complexity of the map building process is significantly reduced. Local grids can be used in dynamic environment which was not possible with earlier grid-modelling approaches. The information, grids are constructed from, is provided by ultrasonic range sensors and an active stereo-vision system, Fusing information of both sensor systems is advantageous, especially due to their complementary error characteristics concerning range and angular resolution.
Performing fine manipulations with multifingered robot hands makes high demands on the control algorithms and the speed of the control computer. Mainly non-linear friction problems and plant uncertainties require inte...
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With high speed control applications it is often very difficult to achieve the aspired timing of the control algorithm using just one processor. This is true especially if the system is complex or very large. In this ...
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With high speed control applications it is often very difficult to achieve the aspired timing of the control algorithm using just one processor. This is true especially if the system is complex or very large. In this paper we discuss advantages and disadvantages of a new system architecture using many processors of which each one is specialised for one part of the algorithm. A tailorable parallel computer architecture which we developed to cope with the problems of parallelisation of control algorithms is presented. Finally examples from the field of robotics and the performance of the prototype computer is presented.
In process automation the control of plants with uncertainty or unknown parameters normally requires either a costly identification phase or an intensive fine-tuning of the controller. An easy adaptive fuzzy control i...
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In process automation the control of plants with uncertainty or unknown parameters normally requires either a costly identification phase or an intensive fine-tuning of the controller. An easy adaptive fuzzy control is proposed which allows automatic controller tuning during operation with respect to desired closed loop behaviour. This adaptive control was added to the fuzzy kernel of an existing process automation system. Finally, experimental results of a three fingered robot gripper using this adaptive fuzzy control are presented.
In process automation the control of plants with uncertainty or unknown parameters normally requires either a costly identification phase or an intensive fine-tuning of the controller. An easy adaptive fuzzy control i...
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In this paper the control architecture of the PRIAMOS mobile robot system is presented. It consists of four layers which integrate reactive and reflexive components in such a way that the robot can combine fast reacti...
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In this paper the control architecture of the PRIAMOS mobile robot system is presented. It consists of four layers which integrate reactive and reflexive components in such a way that the robot can combine fast reaction to unexpected obstacles with predictive behaviour to known components in the environment. A solution for the problem of how to combine control layers which process information on different levels of abstraction and of increasing complexity is discussed. The reflexive part of the control architecture and the modification concerning the motion controller of the mobile robot which was necessary to apply the idea of reflexive navigation is described in more detail. The architecture presented allows motion tasks to be executed in partially unknown or changing environment in an efficient manner. Especially, the time-critical reflexive level is computationally less expensive than in previous approaches.
In this paper, an approach is presented for designing a robot controller to integrate path planning and motion execution. Instead of following an exactly planned geometric path, which cannot be easily modified to deal...
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In this paper, an approach is presented for designing a robot controller to integrate path planning and motion execution. Instead of following an exactly planned geometric path, which cannot be easily modified to deal with uncertainties, a robot realizes its motion under the guidance of a sequence of grossly selected crucial points called subgoals. A fuzzy model is used for on-line controlling the robot to pass through the subgoals smoothly. With the help of heuristics for optimal motion control, the rule base can be developed. Such a concept provides a control method in realtime as well as a possibility of integrating sensor data for the subgoal-guided motion.< >
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