This paper deals with coordinated tasks for mobile nonholonomic manip-ulators. The systems are composed of a nonholonomic mobile platform and a simple kinematic chain holonomic arm. First, concepts such that redundancy and singular conngurations are deened. Then, reduced diierential models are introduced. It is then possible to work with a set of independant task coordinates. Applications follo...

This paper addresses the trajectory tracking control of a nonholonomic wheeled mobile manipulator with parameter uncertainties and disturbances. The proposed algorithm adopts a robust adaptive control strategy where parametric uncertainties are compensated by adaptive update techniques and the disturbances are suppressed. A kinematic controller is first designed to make the robot follow a desir...

Robot manipulation tasks for a mobile, personal robot will often be importantly distinct from those of a traditional, factory robot arm; correspondingly, appropriate motion planning solutions may be notably different, as well. This paper introduces novel definitions of and solution methods for optimal kinodynamic planning for mobile robot manipulation applications. In particular, we consider a ...

Parallel robot manipulators comprise a mobile platform connected to a fixed base through three or more articulated links and are used extensively throughout industry for such diverse applications as high-precision positioning systems, fiber alignment, welding, robotic manipulators, automatic inspection systems, and so forth. Therefore, planning a trajectory to perform a specific task is one of ...

We address the problem of motion planning for nonholonomic cooperating mobile robots manipulating and transporting objects while holding them in a stable grasp. We present a general approach for solving optimal control problems based on the calculus of variations. We specialize this approach to solving the motion planning problem and obtaining trajectories and actuator forces/torques for any ma...

We address the problem of motion planning for nonholonomic cooperating mobile robots manipulating and transporting objects while holding them in a stable grasp. We present a general approach based on the calculus of variations that allows us to obtain optimal trajectories and actuator forces/torques for any maneuver in the presence of obstacles. In addition, geometric constraints such as joint ...