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In this paper, a new approach to identify the parameters of robot manipulator dynamics is presented. The approach is based on exciting the robot manipulator with multiple identification trajectories that pass through the operating point with specific speeds and accelerations. The position, velocity and acceleration of the robot joints along with the corresponding torque at the operating point are...
The single robot joint, which contains a DC torque motor and a harmonic reducer, was designed. And sliding mode control strategy by the self-adaptive adjustment of the sliding parameter ε was proposed in this paper. This control strategy can adaptively adjust ε by switching variables and their derivatives according to the system. It is applied in the control of robot joint to solve the contradiction...
Most humanoid robots walk with bent knees, which particularly requires high motor torques at knees and gives an unnatural walking manner. It is therefore essential to design a control method that produces a motion which is more energy efficient and natural comparable to those performed by humans. In this paper, we address this issue by modeling the virtual spring-damper based on the cart-table model...
A mobile robot based on novel line-walking mechanism is proposed for inspecting power transmission lines. The novel mechanism enables the centroid of the robot to concentrate on the hip joint to minimize the drive torque of the hip joint and keep the robot stable when only on leg is hung on line. After reviewing of the line-walking mechanism, power line inspection robot is described in detail. The...
This paper presents the kinematic analysis of a new 6-DOF haptic interface and control system analysis for the tele-operation of 6-DOF serial robot. The haptic interface consists of two 3-DOF parallel structures connected with a steering handle. The design satisfies requirements of low mass moment of inertia, quick motion, big rotation, and large applied torques. Kinematics for position and differential...
Remotisation plays a vital role in all nuclear installations. Availability of reliable remote handling gadgets in nuclear installations ensures higher productivity as well as safety. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre(BARC), Mumbai is currently developing a Tele-robot based on a recently developed Force Reflecting Servo Manipulator(FSM). The Tele-robot represents a new generation of remote handling technology...
We present a series of experiments which explore the use of consumer-grade accelerometers as joint position sensors for robotic manipulators. We show that 6- and 7-dof joint angle estimation is possible by using one 3-d accelerometer for each pair of joints. We demonstrate two calibration approaches and experimental results using accelerometer-based control in both position-control and torque-control...
This paper presents experimental results on the five-finger dexterous robot hand DLR-HIT II, with Cartesian impedance control based on joint torque and nonlinearity compensation for elastic dexterous robot joints. To improve the performance of the impedance controller, system parameter estimations with extended kalman filter and gravity compensation have been investigated on the robot hand. Experimental...
Biped robot may become unstable during dynamic walking because of the huge impact/contact forces produced by foot instant landing. In this paper, force/torque-based compliance control is applied to absorb the impact forces generated between the contacting foot and the ground to keep stable dynamic walking. By imitating human's muscles to absorb the landing force, this method models the ground and...
Zero-Moment Point (ZMP) is the most popular concept that is applied to stabilize the gait motion of a biped robot. However, the computation of the ZMP position and the dynamic model is highly complex, and so requires a considerable time. Therefore, to eliminate complex computation, this work designs a new locomotion control system for humanoid robots, which yields walking gait characteristics that...
This paper proposes a gravity compensator for the roll-pitch rotation which can be operated in hemispherical work space. The gravity compensator comprises two 1-dof gravity compensators and a bevel differential. It is revealed from analyses of energy and torque that the proposed gravity compensator can perform static balancing completely. The gravity compensation of a 4-dofs manipulator is briefly...
This paper presents an overview of the structure and requirements of a ground engineering model for a space remote manipulator system, with long arm and large torque driver capacity. The system consists of a 6 DOFs robot arm composed of six identical modular joints, and a large-error tolerated end effector. A FPGA based joint controller hardware structure is built to form a distributed control scheme...
Force control is required in many industrial tasks. In this paper, a robot controller is proposed which controls both the position and the force that act on the end-effector. The external force is computed with a force/torque estimator, and this estimation is presented as an update law to improve the system's performance. A Lyapunov function is defined to show the stability of the system and that...
Most industrial robots nowadays still employ strategies that neglect or minimize the effects of task dynamics. Some tasks, however, are intrinsically dynamic and can only be accomplished by considering their dynamic aspects. We address ball catching as a prominent and widely studied example for such a task. The paper follows a special approach to accomplish the task: the nonprehensile catching, which...
When robots cooperate with humans it is necessary for robots to move safely on sudden impact. Joint torque sensing is vital for robots to realize safe behavior and enhance physical performance. Firstly, this paper describes a new torque sensor with linear encoders which demonstrates electro magnetic noise immunity and is unaffected temperature changes. Secondly, we propose a friction compensation...
In this paper, we study the problem of door-opening by using a modular re-configurable robot (MRR) mounted on a tracked mobile platform. The main concern of opening a door is how to prevent the internal forces that occur because of the positioning error or the imprecise modeling of the environment, i.e., the door parameters. Most previous research is based on compliant control, which makes the control...
Numerous researches have been carried out to use robot in the area of stroke rehabilitations. The conventional approach is to assist patient to perform Activities of Daily Living (ADL) through a set of pre-programmed trajectories. The main drawback lies in the lack of voluntary movement by the patient. Many of these works have been carried out by using positional feedback control. In this kind of...
Rotation is one of efficient transportation method for big or heavy object. For implementing the rolling operation to the small and light weight robot, the friction control is necessary considering its movable range, balance and actuator power. In this paper, we propose a new rolling manipulation by using whole body motion for multi-legged robot. The weight shift control is implemented considering...
The advent of the super aged society and decline in earning power makes it critical to develop technologies that can support the limitations of our human abilities. We have developed Robot Suit HAL to support human physical capabilities. A wearable robot expected to work in human society is required to have a high structural safety, with a tough and compact structure and a human outline. To achieve...
This paper presents and experimentally demonstrates a control approach for actuated dynamic walking in biped robots. Rather than utilizing trajectory tracking, we proposed a control approach which employs state dependent control torques generated by low-gain spring-damper couples to encourage patterned motion of the robot. In order to verify that the control idea provides natural looking (human-like)...
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