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Toward the ambitious long-term goal of a fleet of cooperating Flexible Autonomous Machines operating in an uncertain Environment (FAME), this two part paper addresses several critical modeling, design and control objectives for ground vehicles. One central objective was to show how off-the-shelf (low-cost) remote-control (RC) toy vehicles can be converted into intelligent multi-capability robotic-platforms...
This paper presents the design of a dual-arm aerial manipulator consisting of a multi-rotor platform with an ultra-lightweight (1.8 Kg) human-size dual arm prototype and its control system. Each arm provides three degrees of freedom (DOF) for positioning the end- effector, and two DOF for orientation. As most model-based controllers assume that joint torque feedback is available, a torque estimator...
In this paper we present a controller that solves the problem of position coordination of two (or more) robotic systems, under a master-slave scheme, in the case when only position measurements are available. The controller consists of a feedback control law and two nonlinear observers. It is shown that the controller yields semi-global ultimate uniformly boundedness of the closed loop errors and...
The aim of this paper is to explain basic kinematic concepts applied to humanoid robots. The structure of a Bioloid with three degrees of freedom (DoFs) for the arms and six DoFs for the legs is considered. The solution of direct and inverse kinematics (IK) is presented for both arms and legs. Our main contribution is to solve in a detailed manner the legs IK because this is the basis for planning...
In this article, we address an active disturbance rejection controller design for the output reference trajectory tracking problem in a 3 degree of freedom (DOF) Delta Robot. The proposed method relies on purely linear high gain disturbance observation and linear feedback control techniques. The estimation tasks are carried out with the help of Generalized Proportional Integral (GPI) observers, endowed...
In this work an interface based on inertial sensors with applications for unilateral master - slave robotic teleoperation is developed. In such tasks the interface with which the user interacts plays a key role. In general the interface should be comfortable and to allow free user motion. The interface here proposed is composed of two portable inertial sensor units which are placed on the upper and...
This paper presents the automatic design, through a multi-objective genetic algorithm, of a fuzzy logic controller (FLC) applied to walking of a biped robot. The design approach of the FLC comprises two aspects: tuning the antecedents and consequents membership functions parameters and obtain the antecedents and consequents fuzzy partition of a rule base with a fixed structure such that allow to perform...
This article presents a novel on-line optimal control for tracking tasks on redundant robot manipulators for which inverse kinematics is not required. The controller is composed by a stabilization Cartesian PID control plus a joint space optimal control, which is in charge of improving tracking performance. The joint space dynamic optimal control is based on the gradient flow approach with the robot...
This paper presents a relational positioning methodology that allows to restrict totally or partially the movements of an object by specifying its allowed positions in terms of a set of intuitive geometric constraints. In order to derive these positions, a geometric constraint solver must be used. To this end, positioning mobile with respect to fixed (PMF), a geometric constraint solver for the relational...
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