Salvato in:
Dettagli Bibliografici
Autori principali: Verhagen, Joris, Tumova, Jana
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2025
Soggetti:
Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18667
Tags: Aggiungi Tag
Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne!!
_version_ 1866915259792490496
author Verhagen, Joris
Tumova, Jana
author_facet Verhagen, Joris
Tumova, Jana
contents We present a planning and control approach for collaborative transportation of objects in space by a team of robots. Object and robots in microgravity environments are not subject to friction but are instead free floating. This property is key to how we approach the transportation problem: the passive objects are controlled by impact interactions with the controlled robots. In particular, given a high-level Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specification of the transportation task, we synthesize motion plans for the robots to maximize the specification satisfaction in terms of spatial STL robustness. Given that the physical impact interactions are complex and hard to model precisely, we also present an alternative formulation maximizing the permissible uncertainty in a simplified kinematic impact model. We define the full planning and control stack required to solve the object transportation problem; an offline planner, an online replanner, and a low-level model-predictive control scheme for each of the robots. We show the method in a high-fidelity simulator for a variety of scenarios and present experimental validation of 2-robot, 1-object scenarios on a freeflyer platform.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2504_18667
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Collaborative Object Transportation in Space via Impact Interactions
Verhagen, Joris
Tumova, Jana
Robotics
We present a planning and control approach for collaborative transportation of objects in space by a team of robots. Object and robots in microgravity environments are not subject to friction but are instead free floating. This property is key to how we approach the transportation problem: the passive objects are controlled by impact interactions with the controlled robots. In particular, given a high-level Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specification of the transportation task, we synthesize motion plans for the robots to maximize the specification satisfaction in terms of spatial STL robustness. Given that the physical impact interactions are complex and hard to model precisely, we also present an alternative formulation maximizing the permissible uncertainty in a simplified kinematic impact model. We define the full planning and control stack required to solve the object transportation problem; an offline planner, an online replanner, and a low-level model-predictive control scheme for each of the robots. We show the method in a high-fidelity simulator for a variety of scenarios and present experimental validation of 2-robot, 1-object scenarios on a freeflyer platform.
title Collaborative Object Transportation in Space via Impact Interactions
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18667