基于OpenGL的RV-3SQ垂直多关节型机器人监控研究

利用OpenGL平台导入三菱RV-3SQ垂直多关节型机器人3D模型,在VC++的环境中采用OpenGL平台进行对3D模型对象进行控制,通过串口通信使模型机器人对象与实际机器人对象联动,为机器人监控提供便利.实验表明,将基于OpenGL平台的图形虚拟系统与实际控制对象结合起来,能够更好的表现对象的运动过程,在监控系统中具...     

Dynamic analysis and determination of the joint characteristics of parallel-drive robot manipulators

This article presents a theoretical and experimental study on structural dynamic response and determination of the joint characteristics of a five degree-of-freedom industrial robot manipulator with a parallel-drive mechanism. The joints were modeled as a linear spring in parallel with a viscous damper while the link members were assumed to be rigid in this study. The dynamic equations of motion of the robot manipulator were derived using the principle of virtual work. Based on these equations, the complex structural characteristics of the manipulator were simplified by carefully arranging the manipulator in proper arm configurations to avoid coupling effects among joints. Hence, the joint stiffness and damping ratio of each joint were determined experimentally. Meanwhile, the dynamic responses of the robot manipulator were also investigated. Good correlation between computer simulations and experimental results was achieved. From the experimental study, an additional troublesome flexural mode of about 10 Hz that tends to dominate the whole dynamic response and influence the positioning accuracy of the manipulator was found due to the weakness of the structural member at the base rotation joint, which was not modeled in the dynamic equations. The results of this study will be useful in providing a basis for improving the design of mechanical components and the articulating members of industrial robot manipulators.     

A constrained assumed modes method for dynamics of a flexible planar serial robot with prismatic joints

In the present study, for the first time, flexible multibody dynamics for a three-link serial robot with two flexible links having active prismatic joints is presented using an approximate analytical method. Transverse vibrations of flexible links/beams with prismatic joints have complicated differential equations. This complexity is mostly due to axial motion of the links. In this study, first, vibration analysis of a flexible link sliding through an active prismatic joint having translational motion is considered. A rigid-body coordinate system is used, which aids in obtaining a new and rather simple form of the kinematic differential equation without the loss of generality. Next, the analysis is extended to include dynamic forces for a three-link planar serial robot called PPP (Prismatic, Prismatic, Prismatic), in which all joints are prismatic and active. The robot has a rigid first link but flexible second and third links. To model the prismatic joint, time-variant constraints are written, and a motion equation in a form of virtual displacement and virtual work of forces/moments is obtained. Finally, an approximate analytical method called the “constrained assumed modes method” is presented for solving the motion equations. For a numerical case study, approximate analytical results are compared with finite element results, which show that the two solutions closely follow each other.     

机器人逆标定方法研究

在分析传统机器人位姿标定方法的基础上，提出了一种新的机器人标定方法：基于神经网络的逆标定方法。这种标定方法把机器人实际位姿和相应的关节角误差分别作为前馈神经网络的输入和输出来训练网络，从而获得机器人任意位姿时的关节角误差值，通过修改关节值来提高机器人的位姿精度。这种标定方法把所有因素引起的误差均归结为关节角误差，无须求解机器人逆运动学方程，实现了误差的在线补偿。把标定结果与基于运动学模型的参数法的标定结果进行了比较分析。仿真和试验结果均证明了这种方法比传统方法标定效果更好，且更方便简单，避免了其他传统标定方法繁琐的建模及参数辨识过程。     

Control of an articulated wheeled mobile robot in pipes

We propose a control method in which an articulated wheeled mobile robot moves inside straight, curved and branched pipes. This control method allows the articulated wheeled mobile robot to inspect a larger area. The articulated wheeled mobile robot comprises pitch and yaw joints is and propelled by active wheels attached to the robot. Via the proposed control method, the robot takes on two different shapes; one prevents the robot from slipping inside straight pipes and the other allows movement in a pipe that curves in any direction. The robot is controlled by a simplified model for the robot's joint angles. The joint angles of the robot are obtained by fitting to a continuous curve along the pipe path. In addition, the angular velocity of the robot's active wheels is determined by a simplified model. The effectiveness of the proposed the control method was demonstrated with a physical implementation of the robot, and the robot was able to move inside straight, curved and branched pipes.     

关节型机器人运动学仿真及控制系统设计

关节型机器人各运动关节动态特性和控制系统的稳定性直接影响机器人以及轨迹规划的可达性。以IRB140关节型机器人为研究对象,依据标准D-H参数法和空间位姿变换理论推导出机器人正向运动学数学模型,并采用机器人逆运动学和改进后的五次多项式插值算法实现了机器人在关节空间下进行轨迹规划时各运动关节速度和加速度过渡平滑的目的。最后,搭建机器人控制系统实验平台,实验结果表明,所设计的关节型机器人控制系统能够准确、稳定的控制各关节运动,精准地完成不同运动路径下的夹取搬运任务,满足实际生产工作要求。     

Digital twin-assisted fault diagnosis system for robot joints with insufficient data

The robot joint is an important component of the construction robot, and its fault diagnosis can ensure the exact execution of building jobs, stable operation, and timely prevention of probable safety mishaps. However, deep learning-based fault diagnosis needs a multitude of measured fault data, which is difficult to obtain for various reasons. To solve the problem of insufficient data, a digital twin-assisted fault diagnosis system for robot joints is proposed. First, a simplified dynamics model of the robot joint is developed to generate the virtual entity data which can be used as the X-domain data for the digital twin model. Second, a CycleGAN-based digital twin model is proposed to map the virtual entity (X-domain) data to the physical entity (Y-domain) utilizing only a small amount of measured data. In the end, a test-rig for the robot joint is built to simulate the robot's working conditions, and the CNN-ResNet classifier is utilized to verify the effectiveness of the simulated data generated by the digital twin model. The results show that the fault diagnosis accuracy can be increased from 32.5% to 98.86% utilizing only 400 sets of measured data.     

欠驱动冗余度空间机器人优化控制

欠驱动控制是空间技术中容错技术的重要方面.本文研究了被动关节中有制动器的欠驱动冗余度空间机器人系统的运动优化控制问题.从系统动力学方程出发,分析了欠驱动冗余度空间机器人的优化能力和控制方法;给出了主、被动关节间的耦合度指标;提出了欠驱动冗余度空间机器人系统的“虚拟模型引导控制”方法,在这种方法中采用与欠驱动机器人机构等价的全驱动机器人作为模型来规划机器人的运动,使欠驱动系统在关节空间中逼近给出的规划轨迹,实现了机器人末端运动的连续轨迹运动优化控制;通过末关节为被动关节的平面三连杆机器人进行了仿真,仿真的结果证明了提出算法的有效性.     

柔性臂漂浮基空间机器人建模与轨迹跟踪控制

利用拉格朗日法和假设模态方法建立了末端柔性的两臂漂浮基空间机器人的非线性动力学方程．通过坐标变换,推导出一种新的以可测关节角为变量的全局动态模型，并在此基础上运用基于模型的非线性解耦反馈控制方法得到关节相对转角与柔性臂的弹性变形部分解耦形式控制方程．最后，讨论了柔性臂漂浮基空间机器人的轨迹跟踪问题，并通过仿真实例计算,表明该模型转换及控制方法对于柔性臂漂浮基空间机器人末端轨迹跟踪控制的有效性．     

带主动腰关节的四足机器人平稳运动控制

针对四足机器人在对角小跑运动时出现的后腿“拖地”、机体振荡的现象,提出了一种基于偏航方向上主动腰关节摆动的解决方法。通过D-H法对机器人各关节进行运动学建模,获得其运动学方程,并采用Kuramoto振荡器模型作为扩展的CPG耦合网络振子,实现对腰、腿关节的统一控制。仿真实验表明,经过腰关节控制优化后的机器人在对角小跑时,相对于刚体躯干的机器人,姿态角变化幅度显著减小,抬腿高度明显增加,有效地提高了机器人的运动稳定性,证明了方法的可行性。     

Dynamic motion learning for multi-DOF flexible-joint robots using active–passive motor babbling through deep learning

This paper proposes a learning strategy for robots with flexible joints having multi-degrees of freedom in order to achieve dynamic motion tasks. In spite of there being several potential benefits of flexible-joint robots such as exploitation of intrinsic dynamics and passive adaptation to environmental changes with mechanical compliance, controlling such robots is challenging because of increased complexity of their dynamics. To achieve dynamic movements, we introduce a two-phase learning framework of the body dynamics of the robot using a recurrent neural network motivated by a deep learning strategy. The proposed methodology comprises a pre-training phase with motor babbling and a fine-tuning phase with additional learning of the target tasks. In the pre-training phase, we consider active and passive exploratory motions for efficient acquisition of body dynamics. In the fine-tuning phase, the learned body dynamics are adjusted for specific tasks. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology in achieving dynamic tasks involving constrained movement requiring interactions with the environment on a simulated robot model and an actual PR2 robot both of which have a compliantly actuated seven degree-of-freedom arm. The results illustrate a reduction in the required number of training iterations for task learning and generalization capabilities for untrained situations.     

带扩展卡尔曼滤波的柔性关节机器人虚拟分解控制

针对柔性关节机器人在非完全状态反馈条件下的轨迹跟踪控制问题,本文提出一种基于虚拟分解控制(virtual decomposition control,VDC)理论和扩展卡尔曼滤波(extended Kalman filtering,EKF)观测的控制方法.首先,考虑模型参数的不确定性和外界扰动因素,分别设计刚性连杆子系统和柔性关节子系统的虚拟分解控制律.然后,为突破现有VDC方法依赖于全状态反馈测量的局限,设计一种基于EKF的间接状态观测器,实现了仅需电机侧位置和速度测量而不需连杆侧任何状态信息测量的闭环控制.此外,结合虚拟稳定和李雅普诺夫稳定理论给出了严格的系统稳定性证明.最后,实例对比仿真验证了所提出控制算法的有效性,且相比于基于传统拉格朗日整体动力学的典型算法,具有更优的轨迹跟踪性能.     

四足步行机器人爬行步态的计算机仿真

由于机器人数学描述的复杂性,使得在机器人运动学、动力学分析方面显得较为困难,计算机虚拟仿真技术在该领域的应用为机器人的运动特性分析提供了依据.文中建立了一个连续转动式腿机构的四足步行机器人模型,并规划了该机器人的一种直线爬行步态,利用ADAMS虚拟样机软件对机器人的爬行步态进行了动力学仿真,得到了机器人各个关节相关物理量的变化曲线,分析了四个髋关节的驱动力矩在步行过程中的变化情况.通过仿真,验证了步态规划的合理性,同时为进一步选择电机、分析机器人系统的动态特性提供了依据.     

Smooth control of an articulated mobile robot with switching constraints

The paper describes a smooth controller of an articulated mobile robot with switching constraints. The use of switching constraints associated with grounded/lifted wheels is an effective method of controlling various motions; e.g. the avoidance of a moving obstacle. A model of an articulated mobile robot that has active and passive wheels and active joints with switching constraints is derived. A controller that accomplishes the trajectory tracking of the robot’s head and subtasks using smooth joint input is proposed on the basis of the model. Simulations and experiments are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed controller.     

用虚拟连杆构造冗余残差对多关节机械臂进行故障诊断

提出了一种多关节机械臂的故障诊断方法.基于机械臂各个关节间的转动传递关系,对多个关节构造虚拟连杆的残差,利用虚拟连杆与机械臂工作空间残差间构成的冗余关系进行故障诊断.将残差阈值的设计与机械臂末端位置的渐变相联系,改进了现有方法中判别关节故障没有利用关节间位置关系的不足.     

仿人机器人斜坡行走的步态规划

为了解决双足机器人在复杂路面的行走问题,提出了一种具体的基于几何约束的机器人斜坡行走步态规划方法。通过对机器人行走的起步阶段,单脚支撑期中摆动腿对机器人身体稳定的影响,以及行走步态流程进行了详细的规划,以机器人Nao为研究对象,构建出了机器人的连杆模型,计算出机器人在前向和侧向运动中保证身体稳定的踝关节约束范围,分析了流程图中机器人各行走步态,并计算出各步态中关节角度变化,从而规划出了机器人Nao从起步到结束行走的过程。运用三次多项式插值的方法使得各关节运动平滑稳定,并根据规划中的各个步态运动利用MATIAB仿真,获得机器人在步行过程中X、Y、Z方向上的质心轨迹,并通过x、y方向的轨迹可以看出机器人行走过程重心稳定,从而证明此方法用于机器人斜坡行走的可行性。     

Virtual Chassis for Snake Robots: Definition and Applications

Abstract

Intuitively representing the motion of a snake robot is difficult. This is in part because the internal shape changes that the robot uses to locomote involve the entire body and no single point on the robot intuitively represents the robot’s pose at all times. To address this issue, we present a method of defining body coordinate frames that departs from the typical convention of rigidly fixing a frame to a link on the robot, and instead define a body frame that is based on the averaged position of all of the robot’s links. This averaged frame serves as a virtual chassis that effectively isolates the internal motion of the robot’s shape changes from the external motion, due to the robot’s interaction with its surroundings. This separation of motion allows much simpler models—such as those derived for wheeled vehicles—to accurately approximate the motion of the robot as it moves through the world. We demonstrate the practical advantages of using the virtual chassis body frame by estimating the pitch and roll of a snake robot undergoing dynamic motion by fusing readings from its internal encoders, gyros, and accelerometers with an extended Kalman filter.     

基于连杆力矩传感器动态补偿的机器人灵巧手笛卡儿阻抗控制

为了对连杆空间力矩传感器进行动态补偿,提出了适用于求取串联机器人任意连杆中任意一点处所受的内力和内力矩的算法.该算法采用连杆假想截断原理利用牛顿-欧拉方程推导而出.推导过程综合考虑了串联机器人是否处于静态以及末端是否受外力作用的情况,以及串联机器人的关节是否是回转关节的情况.然后利用该算法计算动态补偿值,构建了基于连杆力矩传感器动态补偿的笛卡儿阻抗控制器.最后在HIT/DLR Hand II五指灵巧手上进行了实验验证.实验结果一方面验证了该算法的有效性,另一方面也验证了本文所构建的笛卡儿阻抗控制器的有效性.     

Comprehensive analysis of the position error and vibration characteristics of Delta robot

Taking Delta robot as research object, its characteristics of position error and vibration are analyzed synthetically. Using the position characteristic of driven arms, based on the method of geometry space vector, establish the mechanism error model; Taking use the principle of mathematical statistics and space vector as the basic, deriving the joint clearance error model; Based on finite element theory, on the basic of elastic dynamic model, establishing the flexible error model. Then, the kinematics and dynamics of branched chain with joint clearance generalized collision force are studied. Based on the definition of rod virtual length, combining the generalized collision force with the elastic dynamics model which includes mechanism error, joint clearance error and flexible error, establishing the comprehensive elastic dynamic model. Finally, by use of simulation software, numerical calculation and experiment, verified the correctness of comprehensive elastic dynamic model, and the characteristics of position error and vibration are analyzed.