Increasing the flexibility of robot systems has been one of the main objectives of robotics research in recent years. There are various approaches to achieve this: increasing fault-tolerance, the development of new ac...
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Increasing the flexibility of robot systems has been one of the main objectives of robotics research in recent years. There are various approaches to achieve this: increasing fault-tolerance, the development of new actuators and sensors and the use of learning techniques. But the field of operation of such smart systems is still limited to a rather small area. Mobile manipulation is another facet of increasing the flexibility of a robot system. By exploiting the mobility of a platform, the dextrous workspace of manipulators can be considerably increased. One main research topic on mobile manipulation is the decomposition of the motion of the tool-centre-point into manipulator motion and platform motion. In this paper a new online approach to this decomposition is presented which allows the consideration of complex obstacles and multiple manipulators mounted on the platform. A focus of this paper is the presentation of a fuzzy-controller that enables the robot to perform manipulation and locomotion in an integrated manner.
Performing fine manipulations with multifingered robot hands makes high demands on the control algorithms and the speed of the control computer. Mainly nonlinear friction problems and plant uncertainties require inten...
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Performing fine manipulations with multifingered robot hands makes high demands on the control algorithms and the speed of the control computer. Mainly nonlinear friction problems and plant uncertainties require intensive fine-tuning of a controller. This paper gives insight into the frictional behaviour of geared finger links. The behaviour has been approximated by a friction model. Considering the estimated system parameters two kinds of controllers are developed: a simple PD controller with switchable I-part and a PD-controller with a fuzzy friction compensation working in parallel. The results of both controllers are presented and compared in this paper.
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.
This paper describes the development of a system for simultaneous planning and execution of surgical operations in the cranio-maxillo facial area. Simultaneous planning and execution is the process of taking an implic...
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The distributed real-time community is mainly divided into two camps: hard real-time and soft real-time; hybrid systems have been considered but not to any great extent. In this paper we propose a hybrid communication...
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The distributed real-time community is mainly divided into two camps: hard real-time and soft real-time; hybrid systems have been considered but not to any great extent. In this paper we propose a hybrid communication protocol, which forms a foundation for interconnection of nodes in a distributed hybrid real-time system. The protocol will enable both hard and soft real-time frames on a broadcast communication bus, yet still guarantees the hard real-time behaviour. The protocol will utilise the communication bandwidth more efficiently, which is relevant to cost-sensitive embedded applications.
While distributed control architectures have many advantages over centralized ones, such as their inherent modularity and fault tolerance, a major problem of such architectures is to ensure the goal-oriented behaviour...
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While distributed control architectures have many advantages over centralized ones, such as their inherent modularity and fault tolerance, a major problem of such architectures is to ensure the goal-oriented behaviour of the controlled system. This paper presents a framework within which the coordination skills required for goal-orientedness are learned from user demonstrations. The framework is based on a state-space model of the single agents building the system and a corresponding model of the coordination mechanism. Our mobile robot PRIAMOS provides an application example.
A strategy for the fusion of information from a stereo image pair for model-based object recognition is discussed. Our scheme combines a new method for feature grouping with a region-based stereo matching and a hypoth...
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A strategy for the fusion of information from a stereo image pair for model-based object recognition is discussed. Our scheme combines a new method for feature grouping with a region-based stereo matching and a hypothesize-and-verify paradigm. The grouping method developed is based on a graph theoretical algorithm. It exploits prior knowledge to find the groups of image features which are likely to come from a sought model(s). The Bayesian classification is used to deal with the resulting hypotheses. A mechanism for a dynamic threshold modification is incorporated into the system to enable the grouping at different resolutions. Unlike classical techniques for object recognition from stereo, our strategy does not depend on a data driven computation of a depth map. We argue that a propulsive reconstruction of 3D information can be more efficient and robust.
The autonomy of mobile systems increases constantly. That means that the flexibility of their task execution, their capabilities to handle local conflicts and the usage of their local knowledge increase. The paper sho...
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The autonomy of mobile systems increases constantly. That means that the flexibility of their task execution, their capabilities to handle local conflicts and the usage of their local knowledge increase. The paper shows that because of this autonomy coordination in a factory must be reconsidered and that global coordination is still able to improve the efficiency and the safety of autonomous mobile systems. It suggests a knowledge structure for coordination containing global information which is called section knowledge. This section knowledge helps the mobile systems to coordinate themselves. Furthermore, some agents, using the section knowledge, are introduced which can advise the mobile systems. The section knowledge is stored in the distributed knowledge base, whose features of preventing the section knowledge of becoming a bottleneck are explained.
The article presents the development of a concept for the distribution and migration of data to several databases within a distributed knowledge base. Thus a concept for a load-dependent and application-specific migra...
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The article presents the development of a concept for the distribution and migration of data to several databases within a distributed knowledge base. Thus a concept for a load-dependent and application-specific migration of data is introduced which takes into consideration the number and sort of accesses to the data. The main part of the migration method is a distribution function, which generates an optimal distribution of data on the databases according to the defined aims. It uses all information of the profile of accesses and evaluates this information with the help of several decision parameters of different priority. A quick reaction on changes in the profile of accesses is guaranteed by a cycle protocol, which consists of three parallelly running phases with a sort of pipeline structure.
The emerging field of service robots demands new systems with increased flexibility. The flexibility of a robot system can be increased in many different ways. Mobile manipulation—the coordinated use of manipulation ...
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