Parallel active/passive force control of industrial robots with joint compliance

Arun Dayal Udai, Abdullah Aamir Hayat, Subir Kumar Saha

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19 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Active force control of an industrial robot with an end-effector force/torque sensor effectively handles compliant industrial tasks like assembly operations, surface finishing jobs, cooperative manipulation, etc. However, the robot still remains intrinsically unsafe for dynamically changing environment where the chances of the links coming in contact with the environment exists. This paper proposes a scheme for active force control at the end-effector using a six-component force/torque sensor through external force-control loop along with steady-state error compensator. In parallel, passive joint compliance was achieved by limiting the currents to joint motors based on an identified model of the robot under study. The proposed method was implemented on a KUKA KR5 ARC industrial robot and tested for passive compliance by colliding with another moving robot in its workspace. Active force control was tested to maintain a desired force on contact to demonstrate the effectiveness of the controller.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIROS 2014 Conference Digest - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages4511-4516
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781479969340
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 31 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2014 - Chicago, United States
Duration: Sept 14 2014Sept 18 2014

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
ISSN (Print)2153-0858
ISSN (Electronic)2153-0866

Conference

Conference2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityChicago
Period9/14/149/18/14

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Science Applications

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