This paper presents a systematic load identification procedure for a class of parallel robot manipulators. It is considered as a regular dynamic robot identification problem since the load is rigidly fixed on the robot-platform. The challenge is that the estimation must be based only on the measurements obtained through sensors in the robot actuators. The load identification procedure is exempl...

In this paper, we present a method for programming robust, reusable and hardware-abstracted robot skills. The goal of this work is to supply mobile robot manipulators with a library of skills that incorporate both sensing and action, which permit robot novices to easily reprogram the robots to perform new tasks, as well as provide a more clear mapping between human and robot actions. Critical t...

A hybrid control scheme based on adaptive visual servoing and direct force control is proposed for robot manipulators to perform interaction tasks on smooth surfaces. The camera parameters, as well as the constraint surface, are considered to be uncertain. A fixed camera with optical axis non-perpendicular to the robot workspace is used for position control, while a force sensor mounted on the ...

The estimation of the performance characteristics of robot manipulators is crucial in robot application and design. Furthermore, studying the manipulability index for every point within the workspace of any serial manipulator is considered an important problem. Such studies are required for designing trajectories to avoid singular configurations. In this paper, a new method for measuring the ma...

Over the past several years, there has been a rapidly expanding interest in the the study and construction o,f a new class of robot manipulators which utilize high degree of freedom, or continuous, backbone structures. I n this paper, we consider and illustrate some basic properties of a class of “hyper-redundant” robots, known as “continuum” robots. W e base our analysis around remotely-driven...

We present a novel approach to mobile object manipulation for service in indoor environments. Current research in service robotics focus on single robots able to move, manipulate objects, and transport them to various locations. Our approach differs by taking a collective robotics perspective: different types of small robots perform different tasks and exploit complementarity by collaborating t...

The overwhelming complexity of the deburring process and imprecise knowledge about robot manipulators leads to a certain control problem. In this paper, a new design of hybrid position/force control of robot manipulators via adaptive fuzzy control approach is proposed to solve these problems. The control architecture consists of an outer-loop command generator which can automatically determine ...

A robot satellite with dual-manipulators is one of the choices to operate payload in orbit, for example, to capture or deorbit damaged satellites. We have constructed a ground experiment simulator system including two 7-degree-of-freedom (DOF) manipulators as a chaser satellite model and floating testbeds on a flat floor as target satellite models. This system is a tele-operation ground experim...

Vibration is one of the most important resources of error in motion of tip of flexible robot manipulators. Although much work has been done in the design of controllers for flexible manipulators to follow a specified tip trajectory, it has been done a little work in trajectory planning itself. For redundant robot manipulators, trajectory planning can be accomplished with the aim of optimizing s...

─ A joystick-based interactive motion control approach is proposed for modular reconfigurable manipulators. Based on the product-of-exponentials (POE) formula, the velocity models as well as the incremental displacement models have been formulated for both serial manipulators (with arbitrary configurations and DOFs) and a class of three-legged parallel manipulators. As a result, two different c...