A reference force-tracking impedance control system is proposed, consisting of a conventional impedance controller in the inner-loop and a trajectory modifying controller in the outer-loop for force-tracking. The desi...
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A reference force-tracking impedance control system is proposed, consisting of a conventional impedance controller in the inner-loop and a trajectory modifying controller in the outer-loop for force-tracking. The design of the outer-loop is presented and the stability of the two-loop control system is analyzed. A computationally efficient control algorithm for the inner-loop is suggested. Simulation results are presented. The controller is able to achieve excellent position and force-tracking with unknown environment stiffness and the presence of a burr on the tracking surface.< >
One of the main problems in robotic research is planning. Different approaches have been considered, ranging from global to local planning. In the authors' approach, the key idea is that of planning movements of r...
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One of the main problems in robotic research is planning. Different approaches have been considered, ranging from global to local planning. In the authors' approach, the key idea is that of planning movements of redundant robots, which involves both robotic and AI aspects. Pushing is used as a case study and sensorial feedback is considered in order to provide the planner with updated information on the dynamic evolution of the scene and to be able to deal with a priori unknown objects.< >
A system that allows a robot to acquire a model of its environment and to use this model to navigate is described. The system maps the environment as a set of snapshots of the world taken at target locations. The robo...
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A system that allows a robot to acquire a model of its environment and to use this model to navigate is described. The system maps the environment as a set of snapshots of the world taken at target locations. The robot uses an image-based local homing algorithm to navigate between neighboring target locations. Features of the approach include an imaging system that acquires a compact, 360 degrees representation of the environment and an image-based, qualitative homing algorithm that allows the robot to navigate without explicitly inferring three-dimensional structure from the image. The results of an experiment in a typical indoor environment are described, and its argued that image-based navigation is a feasible alternative to approaches using three-dimensional models.< >
A novel algorithm for the adaptive control of a robot manipulator which may contain closed kinematic loops is described. The algorithm identifies the mass properties of each link and the viscous friction coefficients ...
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A novel algorithm for the adaptive control of a robot manipulator which may contain closed kinematic loops is described. The algorithm identifies the mass properties of each link and the viscous friction coefficients for each joint of the manipulator. It is similar to the Newton-Euler inverse dynamics algorithm and, hence, obtains its computational efficiency through the recursive nature of the algorithm. Improved computational efficiency is achieved by eliminating the need to compute the constraint forces. Only inertial and gravitational forces are actually computed by the algorithm. Simulation results are presented.< >
It has been shown recently that robot inverse kinematic transformation can be easily carried out by using a nonlinear dynamic system called “joint space command generator.” In this paper, an adapti...
It has been shown recently that robot inverse kinematic transformation can be easily carried out by using a nonlinear dynamic system called “joint space command generator.” In this paper, an adaptive version of the command generator is proposed. The main feature of this command generator is that the inverse Jacobian is estimated on-line (using least-squares algorithms), thus the explicit form of the inverse Jacobian is not required. Since the Jacobian is dependent on the end-effector orientation representation, the adaptive command generator is then inherently flexible in accommodating any choice of orientation representation during Cartesian trajectory planning. The only knowledge required is the forward kinematics of the robot. Thus inverse kinematic transformation of robot trajectories can be carried out with a minimum amount of kinematic information. Extensive simulation studies of the proposed scheme have been carried out which showed that the adaptive command generator is computationally feasible and highly accurate. Different orientation representations have been tested with equal success. Some typical simulation results are presented to illustrate the performance of the adaptive command generator.
If database management systems are to play an important role in CAD/CAM technologies, building engineering indices must be a primary task even though it is beyond conventional database practice. Information regarding ...
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If database management systems are to play an important role in CAD/CAM technologies, building engineering indices must be a primary task even though it is beyond conventional database practice. Information regarding design semantics or functionalities is often embedded in the geometric description of design objects, and is therefore not directly available for indexing. Presented in this paper is an efficient and flexible indexing mechanism for retrieving design objects that possess similar design features as described by the user. The underlying database is composed of rotational objects represented by constructive solid geometry (CSG). Although domain-specific representation schemes and algorithms are involved, the main objective of this paper is to emphasize the importance of engineering indices and to illustrate the effort required to build as well as to use such indices.
A machine vision algorithm to find the longest common subcurve of two 3-D curves is presented. The curves are represented by splines fitted through sequences of sample points extracted from dense range data. The appro...
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Due to lack of robustness, the Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) approach to the design of control systems is enhanced by Loop Transfer Recovery (LTR) techniques. However, the robustness is recovered with the price paid...
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Due to lack of robustness, the Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) approach to the design of control systems is enhanced by Loop Transfer Recovery (LTR) techniques. However, the robustness is recovered with the price paid to the unduly large or infinite bandwidth of the compensator. Such compensators are undesirable because plant output measurement noise is greatly amplified so as to degrade the system performance. A simple method is presented for reducing compensator bandwidth by H ∞ - optimization of a stable function which combines the usual sensitivity function difference with a weighted closed-loop transfer function from noise to plant input. An example is given to show the improvement achievable by this new design method.
It is shown that robot manipulator control can be accomplished using simple decentralized linear time invariant time-delayed joint controllers instead of the complicated computed torque control scheme. This means that...
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It is shown that robot manipulator control can be accomplished using simple decentralized linear time invariant time-delayed joint controllers instead of the complicated computed torque control scheme. This means that all the online computational problems associated with computing robot inverse dynamics can be avoided, and the robot control problem is essentially reduced to that of computing n linear proportional-derivation controls for n joint subsystems. The proposed control technique employs a time-delayed control with a specially designed constant diagonal gain matrix to decouple and linearize the robot joint dynamics so that linear centralized joint control can be achieved. It is shown that the proposed controller is stable, and the value of the special gain matrix can be selected based on a sufficient condition of stability presently developed. However, the establishment of this sufficient condition requires knowledge of the inertial matrix of the robot. It is also shown that the controller is robust in the presence of payload uncertainty. A two-link planar robot is presented to illustrate the controller design procedures and the performance of the controller.< >
The problem of determining collision-free joint space trajectories for redundant robots is considered, and the command-generator approach is used to generate such trajectories. In this approach, a distance objective f...
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The problem of determining collision-free joint space trajectories for redundant robots is considered, and the command-generator approach is used to generate such trajectories. In this approach, a distance objective function is defined and is optimized along the robot joint trajectories through a vector in a null space. Algorithms for implementing this optimization problem are fully developed. It is shown that the proposed collision-free trajectory generation scheme is efficient and practical. Extensive simulation results of a four-link robot example are presented and analyzed.< >
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