Paper Info
Title
Collaborative Manipulation And Transport Of Passive Pieces Using The Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robots Roombots
Abstract
Manipulation and transport of objects using mobile robotic platforms is a well studied field with several successful approaches. The main difficulty while using such platforms is the lack of adaptation capabilities to changes in the environment and the restriction to flat working areas. In this paper, we present a novel manipulation and transport framework using the self-reconfigurable modular robots Roombots to collaboratively carry arbitrarily shaped passive elements in a non-regular 3D environment equipped with passive connectors. A hierarchical planner based on the notion of virtual kinematic chain is used to generate collision-free and hardware-friendly paths as well as sequences of collaborative manipulations. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first example of manipulation of fully passive elements in an arbitrary 3D environment using mobile self-reconfigurable robots. The simulated results show that the planner is robust to arbitrary complex environments with randomly distributed connectors. In addition to simulation results, a proof of concept of the manipulation of one passive element with two real Roombots meta-modules is described.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/IROS.2013.6696694
2013 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
planning,mobile robots
Computer science,Planner,Control engineering,Proof of concept,Self-reconfiguring modular robot,Robot,Kinematic chain,Mobile robot,Manipulator kinematics
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2153-0858
2
0.37
References 
Authors
6
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stéphane Bonardi1584.52
Massimo Vespignani213911.02
Rico Moeckel330.73
Auke Jan Ijspeert43546282.93