Fast and Accurate Relative Motion Tracking for Dual Industrial Robots

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Autori principali: He, Honglu, Lu, Chen-lung, Saunders, Glenn, Yang, Pinghai, Schoonover, Jeffrey, Ajdelsztajn, Leo, Wason, John, Paternain, Santiago, Julius, Agung, Wen, John T.
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author He, Honglu
Lu, Chen-lung
Saunders, Glenn
Yang, Pinghai
Schoonover, Jeffrey
Ajdelsztajn, Leo
Wason, John
Paternain, Santiago
Julius, Agung
Wen, John T.
author_facet He, Honglu
Lu, Chen-lung
Saunders, Glenn
Yang, Pinghai
Schoonover, Jeffrey
Ajdelsztajn, Leo
Wason, John
Paternain, Santiago
Julius, Agung
Wen, John T.
contents Industrial robotic applications such as spraying, welding, and additive manufacturing frequently require fast, accurate, and uniform motion along a 3D spatial curve. To increase process throughput, some manufacturers propose a dual-robot setup to overcome the speed limitation of a single robot. Industrial robot motion is programmed through waypoints connected by motion primitives (Cartesian linear and circular paths and linear joint paths at constant Cartesian speed). The actual robot motion is affected by the blending between these motion primitives and the pose of the robot (an outstretched/near-singularity pose tends to have larger path tracking errors). Choosing the waypoints and the speed along each motion segment to achieve the performance requirement is challenging. At present, there is no automated solution, and laborious manual tuning by robot experts is needed to approach the desired performance. In this paper, we present a systematic three-step approach to designing and programming a dual robot system to optimize system performance. The first step is to select the relative placement between the two robots based on the specified relative motion path. The second step is to select the relative waypoints and the motion primitives. The final step is to update the waypoints iteratively based on the actual measured relative motion. Waypoint iteration is first executed in simulation and then completed using the actual robots. For performance assessment, we use the mean path speed subject to the relative position and orientation constraints and the path speed uniformity constraint. We have demonstrated the effectiveness of this method on two systems, a physical testbed of two ABB robots and a simulation testbed of two FANUC robots, for two challenging test curves.
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He, Honglu
Lu, Chen-lung
Saunders, Glenn
Yang, Pinghai
Schoonover, Jeffrey
Ajdelsztajn, Leo
Wason, John
Paternain, Santiago
Julius, Agung
Wen, John T.
Robotics
Systems and Control
Industrial robotic applications such as spraying, welding, and additive manufacturing frequently require fast, accurate, and uniform motion along a 3D spatial curve. To increase process throughput, some manufacturers propose a dual-robot setup to overcome the speed limitation of a single robot. Industrial robot motion is programmed through waypoints connected by motion primitives (Cartesian linear and circular paths and linear joint paths at constant Cartesian speed). The actual robot motion is affected by the blending between these motion primitives and the pose of the robot (an outstretched/near-singularity pose tends to have larger path tracking errors). Choosing the waypoints and the speed along each motion segment to achieve the performance requirement is challenging. At present, there is no automated solution, and laborious manual tuning by robot experts is needed to approach the desired performance. In this paper, we present a systematic three-step approach to designing and programming a dual robot system to optimize system performance. The first step is to select the relative placement between the two robots based on the specified relative motion path. The second step is to select the relative waypoints and the motion primitives. The final step is to update the waypoints iteratively based on the actual measured relative motion. Waypoint iteration is first executed in simulation and then completed using the actual robots. For performance assessment, we use the mean path speed subject to the relative position and orientation constraints and the path speed uniformity constraint. We have demonstrated the effectiveness of this method on two systems, a physical testbed of two ABB robots and a simulation testbed of two FANUC robots, for two challenging test curves.
title Fast and Accurate Relative Motion Tracking for Dual Industrial Robots
topic Robotics
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06687