Title
Trajectory planning for optimal robot catching in real-time
Abstract
Many real-world tasks require fast planning of highly dynamic movements for their execution in real-time. The success often hinges on quickly finding one of the few plans that can achieve the task at all. A further challenge is to quickly find a plan which optimizes a desired cost. In this paper, we will discuss this problem in the context of catching small flying targets efficiently. This can be formulated as a non-linear optimization problem where the desired trajectory is encoded by an adequate parametric representation. The optimizer generates an energy-optimal trajectory by efficiently using the robot kinematic redundancy while taking into account maximal joint motion, collision avoidance and local minima. To enable the resulting method to work in real-time, examples of the global planner are generalized using nearest neighbour approaches, Support Vector Machines and Gaussian process regression, which are compared in this context. Evaluations indicate that the presented method is highly efficient in complex tasks such as ball-catching.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980114
Robotics and Automation
Keywords
Field
DocType
Gaussian processes,collision avoidance,control engineering computing,motion control,nonlinear programming,optimal control,regression analysis,robot kinematics,support vector machines,Gaussian process regression,ball-catching,collision avoidance,energy-optimal trajectory,global planner,local minima,maximal joint motion,nearest neighbour approach,nonlinear optimization problem,optimal robot catching,optimizer,parametric representation,real-time,robot kinematic redundancy,support vector machine,trajectory planning
Motion control,Mathematical optimization,Optimal control,Control theory,Nonlinear programming,Robot kinematics,Maxima and minima,Robot,Optimization problem,Mathematics,Trajectory
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2011
1
1050-4729
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-61284-386-5
25
1.48
References 
Authors
12
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Roberto Lampariello1799.97
duy nguyentuong243826.22
Claudio Castellini344833.56
gerd hirzinger45185617.40
Jan Peters53553264.28