1. Online optimal motion generation with guaranteed safety in shared workspace
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Pierre-Brice Wieber, Olivier Aycard, Pu Zheng, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (Marvin ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria), MARVIN, LIG, and ANR-19-P3IA-0003,MIAI,MIAI @ Grenoble Alpes(2019)
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Rest (physics) ,Scheme (programming language) ,0209 industrial biotechnology ,021103 operations research ,Computer science ,Real-time computing ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,02 engineering and technology ,Workspace ,Collision ,Kinetic energy ,[SPI.AUTO]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Automatic ,Computer Science::Robotics ,Model predictive control ,020901 industrial engineering & automation ,Trajectory ,Robot ,Manipulator ,Nuclear Experiment ,computer ,Collision avoidance ,ComputingMethodologies_COMPUTERGRAPHICS ,computer.programming_language - Abstract
International audience; With new, safer manipulator robots, the probability of serious injury due to collisions with humans remains low (5%), even at speeds as high as 2 m.s -1. Collisions would better be avoided nevertheless, because they disrupt the tasks of both the robot and the human. We propose in this paper to equip robots with exteroceptive sensors and online motion generation so that the robot is able to perceive and react to the motion of the human in order to reduce the occurrence of collisions. It’s impossible to guarantee that no collision will ever take place in a partially unknown dynamic environment such as a shared workspace, but we can guarantee instead that, if a collision takes place, the robot is at rest at the time of collision, so that it doesn’t inject its own kinetic energy in the collision. To do so, we adapt a Model Predictive Control scheme which has been demonstrated previously with two industrial manipulator robots avoiding collisions while sharing their workspace. The proposed control scheme is validated in simulation.
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- 2020
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