Three degree of freedom planar mechanisms occur in nature and are fundamental to many robotic devices. This paper concerns the use of evaluation criteria, developed by the authors, to select the link lengths of 3 DOF ...
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Three degree of freedom planar mechanisms occur in nature and are fundamental to many robotic devices. This paper concerns the use of evaluation criteria, developed by the authors, to select the link lengths of 3 DOF planar manipulators and analyze their operational performance. The technique has wide application to the design of serial and parallel robots.
Hybrid position/force control is not always stable by adjusting the control parameters. There may be unstable regions if position and force control are exerted simultaneously because of an inappropriate kinematic coor...
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Hybrid position/force control is not always stable by adjusting the control parameters. There may be unstable regions if position and force control are exerted simultaneously because of an inappropriate kinematic coordinate transformation in the feedback path. To realize hybrid control for redundant manipulators, we analyze system stability and develop an improved hybrid control scheme that ensures kinematically stable operation.
In this research we develop criteria for analyzing robotic mechanisms based on workspace geometry, singularities, and indices for global conditioning, global velocity, global payload, global deformation and global err...
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In this research we develop criteria for analyzing robotic mechanisms based on workspace geometry, singularities, and indices for global conditioning, global velocity, global payload, global deformation and global errors. These criteria provide a basis for performance evaluation and optimal design.
This paper treats grasping and manipulation of objects by articulated, multifingered hands. We discuss how to use redundancy to improve the performance of hand-object systems and compensate for potential task failures...
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This paper treats grasping and manipulation of objects by articulated, multifingered hands. We discuss how to use redundancy to improve the performance of hand-object systems and compensate for potential task failures. We analyze the kinematics for manipulation. Definitions of redundancy based on a minimum-case measure are presented and an optimization method for redundancy control is proposed. Strategies for optimal fault-tolerant control are introduced to accomplish tasks using finger reconfiguration and joint torque redistribution.
The emergence and effectiveness of communication interface in a colony of autonomous agents is discussed in this paper. The robotic agents sense the world within which they are embedded, while performing specific task...
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One way to find an optimal plan is to enumerate all plans and evaluate a quality metric for each plan. However it is well known that N parts can have up to O(2/sup N/) assembly plans. Reducing N by grouping parts has ...
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One way to find an optimal plan is to enumerate all plans and evaluate a quality metric for each plan. However it is well known that N parts can have up to O(2/sup N/) assembly plans. Reducing N by grouping parts has been proposed earlier but to our knowledge has not been formally defined. In this paper we define two types of groups in terms of part geometry using the nondirectional blocking graph and binary adjacency matrices defined by Wilson and Latombe (1994). We give a polynomial time algorithm for identifying serial and parallel groups. We tested the algorithm on two planar assemblies where it reduced plan time by a factor of 4.
In this paper a method for collision detection and collision avoidance for dual arm robots is proposed. The collision detection, a fast geometric approach based on link intersection, detects the collision and construc...
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In this paper a method for collision detection and collision avoidance for dual arm robots is proposed. The collision detection, a fast geometric approach based on link intersection, detects the collision and constructs the collision region for given trajectories. The time delay planning determines the minimum necessary time delay to avoid collisions using a potential field representation for collision regions. The planning is based on a flexible, massively parallel approach. It effectively avoids any local minima problems due to the potential field representation and can be used regardless of the complexity of the collision region (e.g., concave or complicated regions).
Since form-closure grasps are a strong condition for stability, they are very useful for applications. Whether form closure can be obtained depends on the design of the end-effector and the geometry of the grasped obj...
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Since form-closure grasps are a strong condition for stability, they are very useful for applications. Whether form closure can be obtained depends on the design of the end-effector and the geometry of the grasped object. Previously, we proposed a new type of grasping mechanism using closed kinematic chains that can provide form-closure grasps for nearly any geometry of the object. An important design issue is the determination of the link lengths of the closed chain. This paper considers the design with respect to grasp stability. A criterion for evaluating grasp stability is proposed. The link lengths corresponding to an optimal value of the criterion is utilized to obtain a solution for dimensional synthesis. Because the criterion is a nonlinear function of the link lengths, the optimization cannot be obtained by simple computation. To avoid the computational burden in finding the optimal link lengths, we develop a graphical method for determining the link lengths. The grasping of cylindrical objects demonstrates the method.
The determination of contact forces between a grasped object and fingers of a robot hand is treated in this research. In previous research on fingertip grasps, the underlying assumption is generally that the fingers c...
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The determination of contact forces between a grasped object and fingers of a robot hand is treated in this research. In previous research on fingertip grasps, the underlying assumption is generally that the fingers can apply any required force. In cases of enveloping or power grasps, the latter assumption does not always hold because same components of the contact forces may not be controllable. These uncontrollable forces need to be separated in the representation of contact forces to ensure that the contact forces are obtained by adjusting the controllable components of the contact forces. This paper provides a method to solve this problem. We decompose the space of contact forces into four subspaces. Based on this decomposition, the contact forces can be explicitly represented with respect to the joint torques. Therefore, the application of the technique leads to a controllable solution. Three examples are provided to illustrate the decomposition.
Fuzzy logic and neural networks have wide applications in intelligent systems. The research describes a high precision fuzzy neural controller design method in which a feedforward network learns fuzzy rules offline wh...
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Fuzzy logic and neural networks have wide applications in intelligent systems. The research describes a high precision fuzzy neural controller design method in which a feedforward network learns fuzzy rules offline while employing an analytical approach in place of the conventional error back propagation method which can be time consuming to implement. Through repeated modifications of the system inputs, the proposed technique restores valuable information often lost during fuzzification. As a result, interpolation and data remodification properties inherently rooted in the controller significantly improve the system response.
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