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Copyright Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED) 2009

Abstract

The aim of the project is to develop a dependable anthropomorphic service robot to operate safely and robustly in environments where human manipulation capabilities are required. In order to operate safely a light weight robot of second generation has been developed to approach the arm manipulator to human arm characteristics. The characteristics for the new manipulator are: 18 kg, 6 DOF, 6 kg workload and 955 mm of reach. With this new manipulator mounted on a mobile base we have completed a mobile manipulator called MANFRED with an arm anthropomorphically located. The service robot proposed have a dynamical coordinated control to manage the 8 DOF of the system (2 DOF in the mobile base and 6 DOF in the arm) in order to achieve a good and robust force-position control that let the robot be able to manipulate objects and to collaborate with a person to transport an object. The sensor system includes a 3D laser scan, CCD cameras and a forcetorque sensor at the arm. To obtain the operational robustness required, a new control architecture has been designed. The architecture uses Voronoi Diagrams (local and global) as topo-geometric models of the environment that can be used in different functionalities of the system: planning, navigation, mapping and localization. The architecture requires to graduate precisely the reactivity level in order to avoid unstabilities at the trajectories coordinate control of the base-arm system. Besides, the architecture has been designed to detect and recover fails at different levels of the system: planning, navigation, mapping, localization, perception and manipulation. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

Details

Title
ASUNTOS EXTERIORES, DERECHO INTERNACIONAL Y EL NUEVO FEDERALISMO: LECCIONES DERIVADAS DE LA COORDINACIÓN*
Author
Ahdieh, Robert B
Pages
109-172
Publication year
2009
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED)
ISSN
11395583
e-ISSN
21748950
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English, Spanish
ProQuest document ID
1112273614
Copyright
Copyright Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED) 2009