Title
A Laser-based Dual-arm System for Precise Control of Collaborative Robots
Abstract
Collaborative robots offer increased interaction capabilities at relatively low cost but in contrast to their industrial counterparts they inevitably lack precision. Moreover, in addition to the robots' own imperfect models, day-to-day operations entail various sources of errors that despite being small rapidly accumulate. This happens as tasks change and robots are re-programmed, often requiring time-consuming calibrations. These aspects strongly limit the application of collaborative robots in tasks demanding high precision (e.g. watch-making). We address this problem by relying on a dual-arm system with laser-based sensing to measure relative poses between objects of interest and compensate for pose errors coming from robot proprioception. Our approach leverages previous knowledge of object 3D models in combination with point cloud registration to efficiently extract relevant poses and compute corrective trajectories. This results in high-precision assembly behaviors. The approach is validated in a needle threading experiment, with a l50 mu m thread and a 30 mu m hole, and a USB insertion task using two 7-axis Panda robots.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9561173
2021 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (ICRA 2021)
DocType
Volume
Issue
Conference
2021
1
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1050-4729
0
0.34
References 
Authors
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
João Silvério1345.52
Sylvain Calinon21897117.63