{"title":"Finding antipodal point grasps on irregularly shaped objects","authors":"I. Chen, J. Burdick","doi":"10.1109/ROBOT.1992.219920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.1992.219920","url":null,"abstract":"The authors consider two-finger antipodal point grasping of arbitrarily shaped 2D and 3D objects. An object function which maps a finger contact space to the object surface is introduced. Conditions are developed to identify the feasible grasping region F in the finger contact space. A grasping energy function E is introduced which is proportional to the distance between two grasping points. The antipodal points correspond to critical points of E at F. Optimization and/or continuation techniques are used to find these critical points. In particular, global optimization techniques are applied to find the maximal grasp. Modeling techniques for representing 2D and 3D objects using B-spline curves and spherical product surfaces are described.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":307394,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1992 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation","volume":"79 11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125918421","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":"Man-equivalent telepresence through four fingered human-like hand system","authors":"B. Jau","doi":"10.1109/ROBOT.1992.220190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.1992.220190","url":null,"abstract":"The author describes a newly developed mechanical hand system. The robot hand is in human-like configuration with a thumb and three fingers, a palm, a wrist, and the forearm in which the hand and wrist actuators are located. Each finger and the wrist has its own active electromechanical compliance system, allowing the joint drive trains to be stiffened or loosened. This mechanism imitates the human muscle dual function of positioner and stiffness controller. This is essential for soft grappling operations. The hand-wrist assembly has 16 finger joints, three wrist joints, and five compliance mechanisms for a total of 24 degrees of freedom. The strength of the hand is roughly half that of the human hand and its size is comparable to a male hand. The hand is controlled through an exoskeleton glove controller that the operator wears. The glove provides the man-machine interface in telemanipulation control mode: it senses the operator's inputs to guide the mechanical hand in hybrid position and force control. The hand system is intended for dexterous manipulations in structured environments. Typical applications will include work in hostile environments such as space operations and nuclear power plants.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":307394,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1992 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115264533","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":"Iterative learning control of robots with elastic joints","authors":"Alessandro De Luca, G. Ulivi","doi":"10.1109/ROBOT.1992.219948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.1992.219948","url":null,"abstract":"The design of a repetitive learning controller for robots with elastic joints, following a frequency-domain approach, is presented. An efficient and simple iterative learning algorithm is presented, allowing solution of the output tracking problem with limited knowledge of system dynamics and using only a linear stabilizing feedback on the motor variables. Simulation results reported for a two-link planar robot under gravity showed good motion performance in this critical case.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":307394,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1992 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121727130","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":"Orienting generalized polygonal parts","authors":"A. S. Rao, Ken Goldberg","doi":"10.1109/ROBOT.1992.219922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.1992.219922","url":null,"abstract":"K.Y. Goldberg (1990) described an algorithm for orienting planar polygonal parts using a modified parallel-jaw gripper. The authors extend this algorithm to handle parts with curved edges. They define a generalized polygon as a planar figure made up of piecewise linear and circular edges, and a generalized polygonal part as one of constant cross section, the convex hull of which is a generalized polygon. For this class of parts a complete algorithm for determining an optimal parts-orienting strategy is presented.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":307394,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1992 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121369979","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":"The experimental performance of a mobile manipulator control algorithm","authors":"N. Hootsmans, S. Dubowsky, Patrick Z. Mo","doi":"10.1109/ROBOT.1992.219944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.1992.219944","url":null,"abstract":"Results of an experimental study of a motion control algorithm for mobile manipulators are presented. The dynamic interactions between a mobile manipulator and its vehicle are shown to lead to poor performance when a conventional fixed-base controller, which neglects these interactions, is used. The mobile manipulator control algorithm, which accounts for dynamic vehicle motions caused by manipulator motions, is shown to be stable and to perform well, while using only limited sensory data, such as would be practically available in highly unstructured field environments.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":307394,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1992 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation","volume":"149 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121375262","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":"Analysis of the behaviour of a circular conveyor","authors":"T. Atmaca","doi":"10.1109/ROBOT.1992.220215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.1992.220215","url":null,"abstract":"An approximate method is developed to obtain the performance metrics of a flexible manufacturing system consisting of a circular conveyor and workstations placed around the conveyor. Each workstation consists of a single machine subject to breakdowns. The service, failure, and repair times are assumed to be exponentially distributed. The authors validate the results obtained by the approximate method with simulation.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":307394,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1992 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132366314","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":"Kinematically optimal hyper-redundant manipulator configurations","authors":"G. Chirikjian, J. Burdick","doi":"10.1109/ROBOT.1992.220304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.1992.220304","url":null,"abstract":"Hyper-redundant robots have a very large or infinite degree of kinematic redundancy. The authors develop methods for determining the optimal configurations which satisfy task constraints while minimizing a weighted measure of mechanism bending and extension. These methods are based on a continuous backbone curve which captures the robot's essential macroscopic geometric features. The calculus of variations is used to develop differential equations whose solution is the optimal backbone curve shape. The optimal distribution of frames along the backbone curve is also considered.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":307394,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1992 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122466302","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":"Application of concurrent engineering in design for one-of-a-kind production","authors":"G. Kovács, I. Mezgár, E. Szelke","doi":"10.1109/ROBOT.1992.220174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.1992.220174","url":null,"abstract":"To maintain the flexible and fast coordination of different design and manufacturing processes for make-to-order production the concurrent engineering (CE) approach seems to be a viable alternative, since classical computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) theories are not always applicable. The authors present a way of implementing the CE approach to establish a conceptual model of an intelligent system for designing and/or redesigning the manufacturing environment, and the joint production control processes with a coupled computer control architecture. The CE approach is demonstrated by means of some experiences on a prototype of a cooperative system for a manufacturing environment to design the processes and the plant-layout of production facilities for a given set of products. Knowledge processing technology was applied for representing and processing knowledge about make-to-order production systems. While utilizing these methodologies and procedures in a blackboard architecture, different advanced design tools were applied for system design and performance analysis.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":307394,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1992 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131592476","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":"On shape-preserving boundary conditions for diffusion smoothing","authors":"E. Trucco","doi":"10.1109/ROBOT.1992.220135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.1992.220135","url":null,"abstract":"Several boundary treatments for attenuating shape deformation introduced by Gaussian smoothing are discussed. The author models Gaussian smoothing by a diffusion equation, a general mathematical framework particularly useful for scale-space analysis. An adaptive, shape-reserving boundary condition for diffusion smoothing range images is introduced. It is shown that this condition is more general than similar techniques found in the literature.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":307394,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1992 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation","volume":"57 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132679713","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":"Remarks on robot dynamics: canonical transformations and Riemannian geometry","authors":"M. Spong","doi":"10.1109/ROBOT.1992.220234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.1992.220234","url":null,"abstract":"The author uses tools from Hamiltonian mechanics and Riemannian geometry to illustrate some properties of robot dynamics that are useful both for robot control and for the design of robotic manipulators. Several authors have noted that if the robot inertia matrix D(q) can be factored as N/sup T/(q)N(q), where N(q) is the Jacobian of a function Q(q), then Q and P=N(q)q define a canonical transformation relative to which the robot dynamics are particularly simple. In the present work, the author gives necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of such a factorization and discusses their implications for robot control.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":307394,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 1992 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132811153","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}