Optimum robot manipulator path generation using differential evolution

Authors:
Carla González;Dolores Blanco;Luis Moreno
Affiliations:
Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, Carlos III University of Madrid, Leganés, Madrid, Spain;Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, Carlos III University of Madrid, Leganés, Madrid, Spain;Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, Carlos III University of Madrid, Leganés, Madrid, Spain
Venue:
CEC'09 Proceedings of the Eleventh conference on Congress on Evolutionary Computation
Year:
2009

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Abstract

A new evolutionary-based algorithm is proposed to solve the robot manipulator optimal path generation problem. The following scenario is considered: given a learnt joint path describing a robot manipulator simple task in the Cartesian space, an optimal path is calculated when a different initial joint configuration is considered. The optimization problem is formulated as the minimization of both the end-effector pose error and the total joint displacement so as to ensure convergence towards the learnt path and a smooth joint motion. To solve the optimization problem an algorithm based on an evolutionary method called Differential Evolution (DE) is used. DE is a stochastic direct search optimization method based on the evolution of a candidate solution population in an iterative process of mutation, recombination, and selection. Since the algorithm does not require the use of the Jacobian matrix during the kinematic inversion, singularities problems are overcome. Results on the optimal path generation of a six degrees of freedom robot manipulator are also presented.