Passive Aligning Physical Interaction of Fully-Actuated Aerial Vehicles for Pushing Tasks

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Autores principales: Hui, Tong, Cuniato, Eugenio, Pantic, Michael, Tognon, Marco, Fumagalli, Matteo, Siegwart, Roland
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Publicado: 2024
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author Hui, Tong
Cuniato, Eugenio
Pantic, Michael
Tognon, Marco
Fumagalli, Matteo
Siegwart, Roland
author_facet Hui, Tong
Cuniato, Eugenio
Pantic, Michael
Tognon, Marco
Fumagalli, Matteo
Siegwart, Roland
contents Recently, the utilization of aerial manipulators for performing pushing tasks in non-destructive testing (NDT) applications has seen significant growth. Such operations entail physical interactions between the aerial robotic system and the environment. End-effectors with multiple contact points are often used for placing NDT sensors in contact with a surface to be inspected. Aligning the NDT sensor and the work surface while preserving contact, requires that all available contact points at the end-effector tip are in contact with the work surface. With a standard full-pose controller, attitude errors often occur due to perturbations caused by modeling uncertainties, sensor noise, and environmental uncertainties. Even small attitude errors can cause a loss of contact points between the end-effector tip and the work surface. To preserve full alignment amidst these uncertainties, we propose a control strategy which selectively deactivates angular motion control and enables direct force control in specific directions. In particular, we derive two essential conditions to be met, such that the robot can passively align with flat work surfaces achieving full alignment through the rotation along non-actively controlled axes. Additionally, these conditions serve as hardware design and control guidelines for effectively integrating the proposed control method for practical usage. Real world experiments are conducted to validate both the control design and the guidelines.
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spellingShingle Passive Aligning Physical Interaction of Fully-Actuated Aerial Vehicles for Pushing Tasks
Hui, Tong
Cuniato, Eugenio
Pantic, Michael
Tognon, Marco
Fumagalli, Matteo
Siegwart, Roland
Robotics
Systems and Control
Recently, the utilization of aerial manipulators for performing pushing tasks in non-destructive testing (NDT) applications has seen significant growth. Such operations entail physical interactions between the aerial robotic system and the environment. End-effectors with multiple contact points are often used for placing NDT sensors in contact with a surface to be inspected. Aligning the NDT sensor and the work surface while preserving contact, requires that all available contact points at the end-effector tip are in contact with the work surface. With a standard full-pose controller, attitude errors often occur due to perturbations caused by modeling uncertainties, sensor noise, and environmental uncertainties. Even small attitude errors can cause a loss of contact points between the end-effector tip and the work surface. To preserve full alignment amidst these uncertainties, we propose a control strategy which selectively deactivates angular motion control and enables direct force control in specific directions. In particular, we derive two essential conditions to be met, such that the robot can passively align with flat work surfaces achieving full alignment through the rotation along non-actively controlled axes. Additionally, these conditions serve as hardware design and control guidelines for effectively integrating the proposed control method for practical usage. Real world experiments are conducted to validate both the control design and the guidelines.
title Passive Aligning Physical Interaction of Fully-Actuated Aerial Vehicles for Pushing Tasks
topic Robotics
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17434