This paper deals with force/position control applied to robotic manipulators. It is well-known that force/position control for manipulators is a challenging task, because of strong nonlinearities exhibited by both the...
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This paper deals with force/position control applied to robotic manipulators. It is well-known that force/position control for manipulators is a challenging task, because of strong nonlinearities exhibited by both the manipulator itself and by its environment. Despite the complexity inherent in manipulation processes, the classic single-loop feedback system with its advantages and disadvantages is still preferred in industrial use for force/position control. As interesting alternative we suggest the MFC-p (model-following control) two-loop control structure, which is based on a simple linear 2nd order model. The theoretical as well as the practical properties of this new control scheme are discussed in detail. It is shown that with our approach it is possible to achieve a much better control performance than that provided by a classic PID system. To prove the superiority of the concept, results with industrial manipulators under force control are shown
Today's palletizing and handling robots move their payloads on trajectories that are neither optimized for minimal grasping forces nor for careful object handling. Problems arise with vacuum grippers that can only...
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Today's palletizing and handling robots move their payloads on trajectories that are neither optimized for minimal grasping forces nor for careful object handling. Problems arise with vacuum grippers that can only exert normal forces on payloads. During high-speed transfers undesired shear forces and torques appear that may well lead to the loss of grasped objects and consequently to a production stop and damage to both the object and the environment. A related problem is concerned with handling goods that need special care, such as liquids that should not spill over during transport, or bakery goods on a tray that should not be scrambled and dislocated before being moved into an oven. To be able to handle objects with care but nevertheless with maximum velocity, a new simple and effective methodology based on the adaptation of the gripper orientation is proposed. It leads to robot trajectories (in particular gripper orientations) that minimize shear forces and torques on grasped objects and thus allows gentle robotic handling processes. The methodology is presented as well as simulation and experimental results
This paper proposes an advanced control strategy for gasoline in-line blending process to achieve tight control of octane quality for resultant gasoline. Specifically, the control law includes a dynamic matrix control...
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This paper proposes an advanced control strategy for gasoline in-line blending process to achieve tight control of octane quality for resultant gasoline. Specifically, the control law includes a dynamic matrix control (DMC) part to address the large delay mainly caused by the on-line octane analyzer, and an expert control part to calculate the flow of each blending gasoline. As demonstrated by experimental results for the blending process of a refinery, the developed blending control system exhibits such advantages as high precise control for octane quality of resultant gasoline, strong robustness over various uncertainties, and so on. It is expected that the designed control system will bring economic benefit for refineries by largely reducing gasoline blending cost.
This paper presents the theoretical framework for the centralized control architecture of the multi agent micro-robotic platform MiCRoN. The entire control system architecture integrates sensory modules, modeling modu...
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This paper presents the theoretical framework for the centralized control architecture of the multi agent micro-robotic platform MiCRoN. The entire control system architecture integrates sensory modules, modeling modules, and control modules. The latter are composed by (i) a high level simulation and autonomous execution unit that is capable for on-line multi-robot navigation with collision avoidance, (ii) a trajectory tracking unit for manipulation purposes, and (iii) a low level position controller that performs position control exploiting machine learning algorithms. The high level controllers take into account behaviors specific to the micro-scale. The performance of the layered control system is evaluated through simulations and preliminary hardware experiments on a micro-robotic platform. The application domain of the MiCRoN platform is cell manipulation, and 3-D assembly for micro-fabrication.
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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Conventionally, human robot co-operation in a closed kinematic chain on the physical level implies a touching of then robot hand or of an object gripped by the robot. Instead, some applications require a manual guidin...
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Conventionally, human robot co-operation in a closed kinematic chain on the physical level implies a touching of then robot hand or of an object gripped by the robot. Instead, some applications require a manual guiding of a robotic arm by touching its links with restricted degrees of freedom like the upper arm, the lower arm, the elbow or the shoulder. In theses cases it usually is not possible to yield the applied forces properly, as this leads to unintended reactions of subsequent links and joints within the kinematic chain. In this paper we introduce co-operative robotic control modes requiring a different form of manual guiding and their realisation in our experimental set-up.
Human robot co-operation is an upcoming topic in robotics combining the characteristics of both human and robot in order to be able to perform co-operative tasks in a human-robot team. Normally, engineers start develo...
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Human robot co-operation is an upcoming topic in robotics combining the characteristics of both human and robot in order to be able to perform co-operative tasks in a human-robot team. Normally, engineers start developing a co-operative robotic system with the aim of creating an intuitive interface for the user to interact with the robot, yet important social parameters for the intuitive interaction between robot and human partner are seldom contemplated. As sociology offers various methods to describe and evaluate the interaction between humans and between humans and machines, we have joined forces to apply these methods to human robot co-operation. Combining both sociological and technical parameters we have created a classification scheme for the analysis of human robot co-operation which is presented in this paper. This classification scheme was then applied in a field study evaluating four different methods to co-operatively carry a wooden bar with a robot;the results are also discussed in this paper.
The new developed navigation system HIALS is a High Intensity Approach Light System for image-guided surgery. The surgeon follows the projected approach lights with his ordinary surgical instruments. Thus, tracked ins...
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The operating room installation at the department of cranio-maxillofacial surgery at the University Clinic Heidelberg consists of an operating table moving on rails in the floor (AWIGS, MAQUET GmbH and Co. KG, Rastatt...
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Our aim is to investigate if it is possible to control and to stabilize the throughput (IPC rate) of a thread running on a multithreaded Java processor by a closed feedback loop and a model based latency predictor. We...
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Our aim is to investigate if it is possible to control and to stabilize the throughput (IPC rate) of a thread running on a multithreaded Java processor by a closed feedback loop and a model based latency predictor. We implemented a PID controller and a model based latency predictor in the processor simulator of the Komodo microcontroller developed at the universities of Karlsruhe and Augsburg to simulate both as additional hardware modules. GP (guaranteed percentage) scheduling is used to control the thread. Evaluations show that the aimed IPC rate of a thread is achieved by the controller and stabilized by the latency predictor thus improving the real-time capabilities of the Java processor.
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