Title
Visual Homing of an Upper Torso Humanoid Robot Using a Depth Camera.
Abstract
We present a system which can automatically home an upper torso humanoid robot so that its true joint angles are known using only information from a depth camera, coupled with incremental encoders. This means that extra components, such as absolute encoders, resolvers, homing switches etc., are not needed. This in turn means that the cost of the system may be reduced and reliability improved as potential component failures are eliminated. The system uses exploratory moves to locate the robot's end effector and to measure the pose of the robot's wrist frame in camera space. Multiple measurements of the wrist frame pose are combined together in a kinematic calibration step to obtain the true joint angles and thus home the robot. We conduct experiments to explore the accuracy and reliability of our homing system, both in simulation and on a physical robotic platform.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-662-43645-5_13
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Field
DocType
Volume
Resolver,Torso,Computer vision,Robot calibration,Simulation,Computer science,Robot end effector,Encoder,Artificial intelligence,Robot,Optical flow,Humanoid robot
Conference
8069
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alan Broun1101.63
Chris Beck231.10
Tony Pipe317124.02
Majid Mirmehdi495596.94
Chris Melhuish574787.61