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R.G. BonitzT.C. HsiaSystems
Control and Robotics Laboratory Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California Los Angeles Davis CA USA
An internal force-based impedance control scheme for two coordinating robots manipulating a rigid object via palm grasping is introduced. The minimal internal force required to maintain the grasp on the object is comp...
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An internal force-based impedance control scheme for two coordinating robots manipulating a rigid object via palm grasping is introduced. The minimal internal force required to maintain the grasp on the object is computed from the frictional constraints and sensed forces. A closed-form solution to the minimization problem is developed which makes the algorithm suitable for real-time control. The controller uses sensed moments at the palm interface to maintain proper orientation of the palms to achieve maximum surface contact. Each manipulator's nonlinear dynamics is compensated by a robust auxiliary controller which is insensitive to robot-model uncertainty and payload variation. The controller is only weakly-dependent on each manipulator's inertia matrix. Stability of the system is analyzed. Rigorous experimental investigations are are performed and the results presented which validate the proposed concepts.
An object-oriented modular approach to the engineering of complex robotic systems emphasizes reliability, reusability, ease of development, and user and network interfaces. This modular approach integrates many archit...
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An object-oriented modular approach to the engineering of complex robotic systems emphasizes reliability, reusability, ease of development, and user and network interfaces. This modular approach integrates many architectural principles and computational techniques which support adaptive and learning capability at the local, modular level. The TETROBOT is a modular and reconfigurable robotic system which was developed to demonstrate the reliable performance in a wide variety of task domains through reconfiguration of the same fundamental hardware and software components. Such a modular approach emphasizes the synthesis and integration of engineering modules and takes advantage of object-oriented engineering principles to design for a family of tasks. This paper provides an overview of the TETROBOT modular system and describes three modular systems in other applications domains.
We consider the problem of adaptively controlling a linear system so as to minimize a long-term average quadratic cost criterion. It is well known that certainty equivalent controllers based on standard parameter esti...
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We consider the problem of adaptively controlling a linear system so as to minimize a long-term average quadratic cost criterion. It is well known that certainty equivalent controllers based on standard parameter estimators run into an identifiability problem which leads to a strictly suboptimal performance. In this contribution, a cost-biased parameter estimator is introduced to overcome this difficulty. The corresponding adaptive scheme is proven to be stable and optimal when the unknown system parameter lies in an infinite, yet compact, parameter set.
This paper presents an application of feature-based visual servoing to achieve accurate and robust 3D filament alignment. Two orthogonal cameras are used to localize the five degrees of freedom of an axi-symmetric fil...
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This paper presents an application of feature-based visual servoing to achieve accurate and robust 3D filament alignment. Two orthogonal cameras are used to localize the five degrees of freedom of an axi-symmetric filament. An algorithm for precisely estimating the center and orientation features of a filament in a camera view is described. The use of feature-based servoing overcomes the difficulty of 3D camera calibration in a factory environment. These features drive a PID control loop for each view. The two views are coupled in one degree of freedom, and the multiple-view controller switches between two single-view controllers to achieve 3D servoing. The overall accuracy achieved is in thousandths of an inch. Experimental results on the performance of the control algorithm are discussed. Models explaining the system behavior are presented. The use of visual servoing in this application far exceeds the positioning accuracy and the repeatability of human operators.
This paper introduces a new feedback algorithm for steering a point robot through an obstacle field. The key innovation is the use of a circulatory field to rotate the robot path around the obstacles instead of the co...
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This paper introduces a new feedback algorithm for steering a point robot through an obstacle field. The key innovation is the use of a circulatory field to rotate the robot path around the obstacles instead of the common potential field which repels the robot. This idea is motivated by a charged particle in a magnetic field generated by a current flowing around the obstacle. In constrast, the potential field approach is associated with a repulsive static electric field generated by charges of the same polarity as the robot, on the obstacle. The circulatory field does not generate any spurious local minimum as it does not change the total energy of the system. By combining with an attractive potential field associated with the desired destination, this method achieves global convergence while avoiding collisions with obstacles.
Some undesirable properties of the standard Takagi-Sugeno (TS) inference method are discussed in relation to an analysis of the TS model and its approximation accuracy. A new inference method based on a smoothing maxi...
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Some undesirable properties of the standard Takagi-Sugeno (TS) inference method are discussed in relation to an analysis of the TS model and its approximation accuracy. A new inference method based on a smoothing maximum function is proposed. This method guarantees smoothness of the model output to a desired degree, boundedness of the output gradient at each point by the local gradients of the rule consequences and also improves the accuracy of the TS model, as demonstrated in the given numerical examples.
A nonlinear observer for a general class of single-output nonlinear systems is proposed based on a generalized dynamic recurrent neural network (DRNN). The neural network (NN) weights in the observer are tuned online,...
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A nonlinear observer for a general class of single-output nonlinear systems is proposed based on a generalized dynamic recurrent neural network (DRNN). The neural network (NN) weights in the observer are tuned online, with no off-line learning phase required. The observer stability and boundness of the state estimates and NN weights are proven. No exact knowledge of the nonlinear function in the observed system is required. Furthermore, no linearity with respect to the unknown system parameters is assumed. The proposed DRNN observer can be considered as a universal and reusable nonlinear observer because the same observer can be applied to any system in the class of nonlinear systems.
Programmable vector fields can be used to control a variety of flexible planar parts feeders. When a part is placed on our devices, the programmed vector field induces a force and moment upon it. Over time, the part m...
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Programmable vector fields can be used to control a variety of flexible planar parts feeders. When a part is placed on our devices, the programmed vector field induces a force and moment upon it. Over time, the part may come to rest in a dynamic equilibrium state. We demonstrate lower bounds on what the devices cannot do, and results on a classification of control strategies. We suggest sufficient conditions for programmable fields to induce well-behaved equilibria on every part placed on our devices. We define composition operators to build complex strategies from simple ones, and show the resulting fields are also well-behaved. We discuss whether fields outside this class can be useful and free of pathology. Using these tools, we describe new manipulation algorithms, and improve existing planning algorithms by a quadratic factor, and the plan-length by a linear factor. We relax earlier dynamic and mechanical assumptions to obtain more robust and flexible strategies. Finally, we consider parts feeders that can only implement a very limited "vocabulary" of vector fields. We discuss the trade-off between mechanical complexity and planning complexity.
The cellular neural network Universal Machine (CNNUM) is applied to object-oriented image compression algorithms and proves its universality as a hardware platform for future applications. The estimated processing tim...
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The cellular neural network Universal Machine (CNNUM) is applied to object-oriented image compression algorithms and proves its universality as a hardware platform for future applications. The estimated processing times allow a real-time analysis of the video sequence and outdo the performance of other comparable digital devices reported.
The purpose of this article is to examine the stability of a robust and decentralized PD control law for robot manipulator control. The control law, which was developed by the authors, has been shown experimentally to...
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