Robot positioning of flexible-link manipulator using vision

  • Authors:
  • Halûk Küçük;Gordon Parker;Eric T. Baumgartner

  • Affiliations:
  • Niğde University, Aksaray Faculty of Engineering, Aksaray (TURKEY). E-mail: hkucuk7@hotmail.com;Michigan Technological University (USA).;Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (USA).

  • Venue:
  • Robotica
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Vision-aided flexible link robot positoning using the Camera Space Manipulation (CSM) method is developed. The primary motivation for this work is to use an autonomous vision-aided robotic system to pick-up and accurately move a flexible object that it encounters. The work consists of analytical and experimental investigation of the performance of CSM for a kinematic model of the PUMA manipulator with a flexible structure at the wrist which accounts for the gravitation. Trade-offs between camera view parameters and axial deflection model parameters were investigated. View parameter reestimation and maneuvering resulted a very accurate placement of the end-effector at the target.