Title
Vision guided manipulation for planetary robotics - position control
Abstract
Manipulation systems for planetary exploration operate under severe restrictions. They need to integrate vision and manipulation to achieve the reliability, safety, and predictability required of expensive systems operating on remote planets. They also must operate on very modest hardware that is shared with many other systems, and must operate without human intervention. Typically such systems employ calibrated stereo cameras and calibrated manipulators to achieve precision of the order of one centimeter with respect to instrument placement activities. This paper presents three complementary approaches to vision guided manipulation designed to robustly achieve high precision in manipulation. These approaches are described and compared, both in simulation and on hardware. In situ estimation and adaptation of the manipulator and/or camera models in these methods account for changes in the system configuration, thus ensuring consistent precision for the life of the mission. All the three methods provide several-fold increases in accuracy of manipulator positioning over the standard flight approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.robot.2009.07.029
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Vision guided manipulation,Stereo imaging,Planetary robotics,Comparison study
Journal
58
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.56
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kevin Nickels150.56
Matthew DiCicco2414.89
Max Bajracharya322418.15
Paul Backes4719.26