Title
Automatic robot kinematic modeling with a modular artificial skin
Abstract
In this paper, we present a new approach to automatically acquire the kinematic model of a robot equipped with a multi-modal, modular artificial skin. Here, we make use of the tri-axial accelerometer built into every cell of our artificial skin, along with a set of open loop test motions of the robot. With a circle point analysis we extract the relevant vectors to assemble a forward kinematic model. In comparison to existing approaches, our method builds and calibrates a kinematic model with minimal motions around the initial workspace, does not require any external metrology system and only requires low-grade motion sensors. We demonstrate the robustness of our approach by estimating the kinematic parameters of a UR-5 robotic arm mounted on an inertial dual arm platform.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2014.7041447
Humanoid Robots
Keywords
Field
DocType
manipulator kinematics,open loop systems,parameter estimation,UR-5 robotic arm,automatic robot kinematic modeling,circle point analysis,forward kinematic model,inertial dual arm platform,kinematic parameter estimation,low-grade motion sensors,multimodal modular artificial skin,open loop test motions,triaxial accelerometer
Computer vision,Robotic arm,Kinematics,Inverse kinematics,321 kinematic structure,Computer science,Workspace,Simulation,Robot kinematics,Artificial intelligence,Modular design,Robot
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2164-0572
3
0.43
References 
Authors
14
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Philipp Mittendorfer130.43
Emmanuel Dean230.43
Gordon Cheng31250115.33