Increasing ABB FlexPicker Robot’s Degree of Freedom (DOF) using Flexible End Effector

Expressive Motion for Low Degree-of-Freedom Robots

Expressive Motion for Low Degree-of-Freedom Robots by Heather Knight As social and collaborative robots move into everyday life, the need for algorithms enabling their acceptance becomes critical. People parse non-verbal communications intuitively, even from machines that do not look like people, thus, expressive motion is a natural and efficient way to communicate with people. This work presen...

Automatic Model Identification of ABB Industrial Robots

In this paper we present an automatic model identification tool of ABB's industrial robots. The tool has been developed entirely in Matlab and has made extensive use of the graphical-user-interface options and the objectoriented design philosophy made possible in Matlab versions 5.0 and newer. The tool is able to automatically identify rigid-body robot parameters such as inertias and Coriolis f...

End-Effector Trajectory Tracking Control of a Parallel Flexible Manipulator

End-effector trajectory tracking of flexible multibody systems is often a challenging task. This is due to the fact that flexible multibody systems possess less control inputs than degrees of freedom, i.e. they are underactuated. Thus, classical approaches known from fully actuated systems cannot be applied. The complexity might be further increased, if the multibody system includes additional ...

Design of high performance parallel arm robots for industrial applications

A method for finding parallel arm robot structures with the same performance as the FlexPicker robot from ABB is presented. The method is very simple and based on systematic clustering of the links connected to the actuated platform of the robot. In the case of 3 DOF actuation, 3 new useful clustering schemes have been found. With these clustering schemes as a starting point, new parallel arm r...

Fuzzy logic applied to control a one degree of freedom (DOF) pneumatic robot