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On Robotic Work-Space Sensing and Control

In English

Författare

  • Magnus Linderoth

Summary, in English

Industrial robots are fast and accurate when working with known objects at precise locations in well-structured manufacturing environments, as done in the classical automation setting. In one sense, limited use of sensors leaves robots blind and numb, unaware of what is happening in their surroundings. Whereas equipping a system with sensors has the potential to add new functionality and increase the set of uncertainties a robot can handle, it is not as simple as that. Often it is difficult to interpret the measurements and use them to draw necessary conclusions about the state of the work space. For effective sensor-based control, it is necessary to both understand the sensor data and to know how to act on it, giving the robot perception-action capabilities.



This thesis presents research on how sensors and estimation techniques can be used in robot control. The suggested methods are theoretically analyzed and evaluated with a large focus on experimental verification in real-time settings.



One application class treated is the ability to react fast and accurately to events detected by vision, which is demonstrated by the realization of a ball-catching robot. A new approach is proposed for performing high-speed color-based image analysis that is robust to varying illumination conditions and motion blur. Furthermore, a method for object tracking is presented along with a novel way of Kalman-filter initialization that can handle initial-state estimates with infinite variance.



A second application class treated is robotic assembly using force control. A study of two assembly scenarios is presented, investigating the possibility of using force-controlled assembly in industrial robotics. Two new approaches for robotic contact-force estimation without any force sensor are presented and validated in assembly operations.



The treated topics represent some of the challenges in sensor-based robot control, and it is demonstrated how they can be used to extend the functionality of industrial robots.

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

PhD Thesis TFRT-1098

Dokumenttyp

Doktorsavhandling

Förlag

Department of Automatic Control, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University

Ämne

  • Control Engineering

Nyckelord

  • Robotics
  • computer vision
  • color constancy
  • motion blur
  • filter initialization
  • visual tracking
  • on-line trajectory generation
  • ball-catching robot
  • force control
  • robotic assembly
  • force estimation
  • perception-action capabilities.

Status

Published

Projekt

  • ROSETTA

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0280-5316
  • ISSN: 0280-5316
  • ISBN: 978-91-7473-670-0
  • ISBN: 978-91-7473-669-4

Försvarsdatum

22 november 2013

Försvarstid

11:15

Försvarsplats

Lecture hall M:B, M-building, Ole Römers väg 1, Lund University Faculty of Engineering

Opponent

  • Mario Sznaier