{"title":"Modelling and Evaluation of the Friction in Robotic Joints Considering Thermal Effects","authors":"G. Legnani, G. Incerti, R. Pagani, M. Gheza","doi":"10.1115/detc2019-97545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/detc2019-97545","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The paper presents a second order friction model for the joints of industrial robot manipulators that takes into account temperature effects. A solution based on a polynomial description of the friction is proposed. The theoretical analysis and the experimental measurements have shown that friction decreases with increasing temperature, which in turn depends on the working cycle of the manipulator. The mathematical model here proposed allows to foresee the friction variation during extensive working cycles and it does not require the use of a transducer for the measurement of the joint internal temperature; therefore it is well suitable for low-cost industrial applications, to improve the control performance or to predict the energy consumption. Experimental tests performed on a commercial 6 DOF manipulator show that the model is effective in estimating the joint temperature and the friction torque during the robot operations.","PeriodicalId":178253,"journal":{"name":"Volume 5A: 43rd Mechanisms and Robotics Conference","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116464009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kevin Carey, Benjamin Abruzzo, D. Harvie, C. Korpela
{"title":"Performance Comparison of Inertial Measurement Units Fused With Odometry in Extended Kalman Filter for Dead-Reckoning Navigation","authors":"Kevin Carey, Benjamin Abruzzo, D. Harvie, C. Korpela","doi":"10.1115/detc2019-98184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/detc2019-98184","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper aims to aid robot and autonomous vehicle designers by providing a comparison between four different inertial measurement units (IMUs) which could be used to aid in vehicle navigation in a GPS-denied or inertial-only scenario. A differential-drive ground vehicle was designed to carry the multiple different IMUs, mounted coaxially, to enable direct comparison of performance in a planar environment. The experiments focused on the growth of pose error of the ground vehicle originating from the odometry senors and the IMUs. An extended Kalman Filter was developed to fuse the odometry and inertial measurements for this comparison. The four specific IMUs evaluated were: CNS 5000, Xsens 300, Microstrain GX5-35, and Phidgets 1044 and the ground truth for experiments was provided by an Optitrack motion capture system (MCS). Finally, metrics for choosing IMUs, merging cost and performance considerations, are proposed and discussed. While the CNS 5000 has the best objective error specifications, based on these metrics the Xsens 300 exhibits the best absolute performance while the Phidgets 1044 provides the best performance-per-dollar.","PeriodicalId":178253,"journal":{"name":"Volume 5A: 43rd Mechanisms and Robotics Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115797718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Automatic Transformation Method for the Walking Assistive Device to Walk Between Flat Ground and Stairs Safely","authors":"Bo-Rong Yang, Yu Cheng Zhang, Hee-Hyol Lee, Eiichirou Tanaka","doi":"10.1115/detc2019-97796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/detc2019-97796","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The main target of this research is to assist the elderly people to walk on different road conditions independently. A method that can transform the walking motion of a walking assistive device between level walking and stair climbing automatically was proposed. To teach the target user how to walk correctly, we defined a trajectory that belongs to healthy people to help the user exercise. Stairs are common in various indoor situations and become a huge challenge for people with gait disorders. To extend the range of physical activity, walking trajectories in different surroundings were imported on the assistive device. Ultrasonic sensors were utilized to detect the distance between stairs and the swing foot. Based on the measured distance, the gait was modified according to a predefined safety distance that was determined experimentally. We also designed trajectory combination methods for changing the device motion patterns between ascending and descending stairs as the walking conditions change. The effectiveness of the system was tested through simulation. The results showed that the device smoothly shifted gait with the proposed methods in this paper. This method has the potential to solve the adaptability of various walking devices to different surroundings.","PeriodicalId":178253,"journal":{"name":"Volume 5A: 43rd Mechanisms and Robotics Conference","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114751946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficient Development of Continuum/Compliant Planar Linkage Mechanisms","authors":"Woo Rib Suh, J. McCarthy, E. Hernandez","doi":"10.1115/detc2019-97299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/detc2019-97299","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper presents a method to develop continuum/compliant mechanisms based on planar bar-node linkage precursors. The method takes as inputs the initial node positions and connectivity data of a given bar-node linkage and converts it into a continuum/compliant mechanism having the same targeted motion. The line bars of the given bar-node linkage are thickened into trapezoidal planar members and the nodes are thickened by introducing fillets at each intersection of bars. The thicknesses of the bars and the shape parameters of the fillets in the continuum/compliant linkage are optimized to obtain the same targeted motion of the given bar-node linkage while keeping stresses below a maximum allowable value. Each design generated during the optimization process is evaluated using finite element analysis. The present method allows for the synthesis of mechanisms having the following advantages over conventional bar-node linkages: 1) They do not require complex ball or pin joints; 2) they can be readily 3-D printed and size-scaled, and 3) they can be optimized to decrease stresses below a maximum allowable value. Furthermore, the method uses a relatively small number of optimization variables (thicknesses of the members, shape-parameters of the fillets), making it an efficient alternative to more complex and computationally intensive methods for synthesizing compliant mechanisms such as those incorporating topology optimization.","PeriodicalId":178253,"journal":{"name":"Volume 5A: 43rd Mechanisms and Robotics Conference","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116654166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Barnaba Ubezio, Shashank Sharma, Guglielmo van der Meer, M. Taragna
{"title":"Kalman Filter Based Sensor Fusion for a Mobile Manipulator","authors":"Barnaba Ubezio, Shashank Sharma, Guglielmo van der Meer, M. Taragna","doi":"10.1115/detc2019-97241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/detc2019-97241","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 End-effector tracking for a mobile manipulator is achieved through Sensor Fusion techniques, implemented with a particular visual-inertial sensor suite and an Extended Kalman Filter algorithm. The suite is composed of an Optitrack motion capture system and a Honeywell HG4930 MEMS IMU, for which a further analysis on the mathematical noise model is reported. The filter is constructed in such a way that its complexity remains constant and independent of the visual algorithm, with the possibility of inserting additional sensors, to further improve the estimation accuracy. Experiments in real-time have been performed with the 12-DOF KUKA VALERI robot, extracting the position and the orientation of the end-effector and comparing their estimates with pure sensor measurements. Along with the physical results, issues related to calibration, working frequency and physical mounting are described.","PeriodicalId":178253,"journal":{"name":"Volume 5A: 43rd Mechanisms and Robotics Conference","volume":"53-54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116145638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bi-Material Re-Entrant Triangle Structures Incorporating Tailorable Thermal Expansion and Tunable Poisson’s Ratio","authors":"He Xiaobing, Xie Yan, Yu Jingjun","doi":"10.1115/detc2019-97686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/detc2019-97686","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Based on the bi-material triangle lattice material, a new cellular structure: bi-material re-entrant triangle (BRT) is devised to incorporate tailorable coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) and tunable Poisson’s ratio (PR) properties by replacing the straight base of a triangle with two hypotenuse members. An equation to systematically build the relationship among the external force, the temperature increment and the deformation for the planar lattice material with bounded joints is derived and then embedded into a theoretical model for devised BRT structure. Using master stiffness equation, effective PR, effective Young’s modulus as well as effective CTE are computed. In order to guide designers to construct an initial concept quickly, the design domain for coupling negative CTE and negative PR properties is proposed. Nine available paired characteristics for coupling effect are extracted and demonstrated with ABAQUS simulation.","PeriodicalId":178253,"journal":{"name":"Volume 5A: 43rd Mechanisms and Robotics Conference","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114615754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sushrut G. Bapat, Pratheek Bagivalu Prasanna, A. Midha
{"title":"A Methodology for Determining Static Mode Shapes of a Compliant Mechanism Using the Pseudo-Rigid-Body Model (PRBM) Concept and the Degrees-of-Freedom Analysis","authors":"Sushrut G. Bapat, Pratheek Bagivalu Prasanna, A. Midha","doi":"10.1115/detc2019-98497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/detc2019-98497","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Traditionally, the deflected configuration of compliant segments is determined through rigorous mathematical analysis using Newtonian mechanics. Application of these principles in evaluating the deformed configuration of compliant mechanisms, containing a variety of segment types, becomes cumbersome. This paper introduces a methodology to determine the expected deflected configuration(s) of a compliant mechanism, for a given set of load and/or displacement boundary conditions. The method utilizes the principle of minimum total potential energy, in conjunction with the degrees-of-freedom analysis and the pseudo-rigid-body model concept. The static mode shape(s) of compliant segments are integrated in identifying the possible functional configuration(s) of a given compliant mechanism’s structural configuration. The methodology, in turn, also facilitates the in situ determination of the deformed configuration of the constituent compliant segments. It thus assists in the identification of an appropriate pseudo-rigid-body model for design and analysis of a compliant mechanism.","PeriodicalId":178253,"journal":{"name":"Volume 5A: 43rd Mechanisms and Robotics Conference","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125216053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Actuated Dual-Slip Model of Planar Slope Walking","authors":"R. Galindo, Elise Weimholt, J. Schmiedeler","doi":"10.1115/detc2019-97601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/detc2019-97601","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The planar dual spring-loaded inverted pendulum (dual-SLIP) model is a well-established passive template of human walking on flat ground. This paper applies an actuated extension of the model to walking on inclines and declines to evaluate how well it captures the behavior observed in human slope walking. The motivation is to apply the template to improve control of humanoid robot walking and/or intent detection in exoskeleton-assisted walking. Gaits of the actuated planar dual-SLIP model are found via the solution of a constrained nonlinear optimization problem in ten parameters. The majority of those parameters define the actuation scheme that injects energy for incline walking and absorbs energy for decline walking to achieve periodic, nonconservative gaits. Solution gaits across the speed range of 1.0 to 1.6 ms and slope range of −10 to 10 degrees exhibit some of the characteristics of human walking, such as the effect of slope on stance duration, step frequency, and step length. Efforts to reduce the number of parameters optimized by enforcing relationships observed in the solution gaits proved unsuccessful, suggesting that future work must trade off model complexity with fidelity of representation of human behavior.","PeriodicalId":178253,"journal":{"name":"Volume 5A: 43rd Mechanisms and Robotics Conference","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131105386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sliding Mode Set-Point Control of a Three-DOF Cable-Suspended Parallel Robot With Uncertain Mass and Disturbances","authors":"Ping Ren, Xu Sheng","doi":"10.1115/detc2019-97275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/detc2019-97275","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Cable-Suspended Parallel Robots (CSPRs) utilize winches and cables as the actuation scheme instead of rigid links, which renders them advantages of both parallel mechanisms and cable mechanisms. In this paper, a robust sliding mode controller was designed for a three-degree-of-freedom CSPR with uncertain end-effector mass and external disturbances. To control the motions of CSPRs is usually challenging due to the unidirectional constraints of cable tensions. Based on interval analysis, a set of analytical inequalities is obtained which establish the relationship between the cables’ tension constraints and the controller parameters. The sufficient conditions of the controller parameters satisfying the constraints are obtained for the set-point motion subject to uncertainties. Numerical simulations are presented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach.","PeriodicalId":178253,"journal":{"name":"Volume 5A: 43rd Mechanisms and Robotics Conference","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133791334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Upper Limb Rehabilitation and Mobility Assistance Using Robotic Devices: A Review","authors":"AmirHossein Majidirad, Yimesker Yihun","doi":"10.1115/detc2019-98063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/detc2019-98063","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study is aimed at reviewing the various literature on the robot-based rehabilitation and the associated technical issues, augmentation, utilization, and safeties. During recent years, Biorobotics and Collaborative Robots have played a remarkable role to provide fast, accurate and efficient therapy and assistance. Most of these robots are equipped with various types of devices to control the intensity, duration, and precision of the training while some feedback systems have also been used to monitor the efficiency of the process and help physicians and therapists to furnish a high quality treatment. Haptic devices, Electromyography (EMG)/Electroencephalography (EEG) sensors, virtual environment and other interactive approaches have been utilized to optimize the process and to investigate different mental as well as physiological aspects. This review paper provides a comprehensive background on the human robot interactions and their outcomes in medical settings and potential research areas in the domain.","PeriodicalId":178253,"journal":{"name":"Volume 5A: 43rd Mechanisms and Robotics Conference","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125482002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}