Title
A Navigation Agent for Mobile Manipulators.
Abstract
Robot navigation and manipulation in partially known indoor environments is usually organized as two complementary activities, local displacement control and global path planning. Both activities have to be connected across different space and time scales in order to obtain a smooth and responsive system that follows the path and adapts to the unforeseen situations imposed by the real world. There is not a clear consensus in how to do this and some important problems are still open. In this paper we present the first steps towards a new navigation agent controlling both the robot's base and the arm. We address several of theses problems in the design of this agent, including robust localization integrating several information sources, incremental learning of free navigation and manipulation space, hand visual servoing in camera space to reduce backslash and calibration errors, and internal path representation as an elastic band that is projected to the real world through measurements of the sensors. A set of experiments are presented with the robot Ursus in real and simulated scenarios showing some encouraging results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-27149-1_58
ROBOT 2015: SECOND IBERIAN ROBOTICS CONFERENCE: ADVANCES IN ROBOTICS, VOL 2
Keywords
Field
DocType
Robotics,Navigation,Social robots
Motion planning,Social robot,Computer vision,Backslash,Computer science,Incremental learning,Spacetime,Visual servoing,Artificial intelligence,Robot,Robotics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
418
2194-5357
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
9
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mario Haut130.42
Luis Manso24811.81
Daniel Gallego330.42
Mercedes Paoletti4235.27
Pablo Bustos58415.27
A. Bandera616023.70
Adrián Romero-Garcés7194.78