Title
Applying High-Speed Vision Sensing to an Industrial Robot for High-Performance Position Regulation under Uncertainties.
Abstract
It is traditionally difficult to implement fast and accurate position regulation on an industrial robot in the presence of uncertainties. The uncertain factors can be attributed either to the industrial robot itself (e.g., a mismatch of dynamics, mechanical defects such as backlash, etc.) or to the external environment (e.g., calibration errors, misalignment or perturbations of a workpiece, etc.). This paper proposes a systematic approach to implement high-performance position regulation under uncertainties on a general industrial robot (referred to as the main robot) with minimal or no manual teaching. The method is based on a coarse-to-fine strategy that involves configuring an add-on module for the main robot's end effector. The add-on module consists of a 1000 Hz vision sensor and a high-speed actuator to compensate for accumulated uncertainties. The main robot only focuses on fast and coarse motion, with its trajectories automatically planned by image information from a static low-cost camera. Fast and accurate peg-and-hole alignment in one dimension was implemented as an application scenario by using a commercial parallel-link robot and an add-on compensation module with one degree of freedom (DoF). Experimental results yielded an almost 100% success rate for fast peg-in-hole manipulation (with regulation accuracy at about 0.1 mm) when the workpiece was randomly placed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.3390/s16081195
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
high-speed vision sensing,fast and accurate robotic position regulation,industrial robots,dynamic compensation,add-on module,compensation of uncertainties
Degrees of freedom (statistics),Backlash,Robot calibration,Control theory,Control engineering,Robot end effector,Industrial robot,Engineering,Robot,Calibration,Actuator
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
16
8.0
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shouren Huang1224.70
Niklas Bergström2696.00
Yuji Yamakawa38620.24
Taku Senoo415921.79
Masatoshi Ishikawa5903163.13