| Volume 22 Issue 10/11- Publication Date: 1 October 2003 |
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| Predictive Tracking of Lines
by Industrial Robots |
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| F. Lange and G.
Hirzinger Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, Deutsches Zentrum
für Luft-und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, D-82234 Wessling, Germany |
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Many tasks for industrial
robots can be described by high precision line following at high speed.
This can be executed accurately if the lines are sensed by a camera since
then not only the desired pose at the current time step is sensable, but
also a segment of the desired path can be predicted. We propose polynomials
to represent the progression of the elements of the desired pose. This
allows us to realize a dynamical sensor control architecture that considers
the two main problems: low sampling rate and delays in image processing,
and deviations from commanded paths due to the robot dynamics. In contrast
to previous publications we now present the complete formulae to control
translation and orientation of the robot by tracking (curved) lines that
are visible for a single eye-in-hand camera. Experiments using off-the-shelf
hardware show that the robot can be precisely controlled at high speed. |
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One: Robot motion along two sensed lines. (0.6MB) |
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Two: Camera view during motion along two sensed lines. (0.9MB)
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Three: Robot motion along a single. (0.7MB) |
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Example
Four: Camera view during motion along a single sensed line. (0.7MB)
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