• DocumentCode
    2190137
  • Title

    Contact control of flexible micro/macro-manipulators

  • Author

    Lew, Jae Y.

  • Author_Institution
    Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA, USA
  • Volume
    4
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    20-25 Apr 1997
  • Firstpage
    2850
  • Abstract
    Contact force control of a long-reach micro/macro-manipulator, in which the macro-manipulator is flexible, is discussed in this paper. The proposed contact force control algorithm smooths the manipulator´s transition from a free-space motion to contact with an unknown environment. Using a force sensor at the wrist and a strain measurement at the flexible link, the micro-manipulator regulates the contact force to a desired value without causing contact instability. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed controller in an industrial hydraulic manipulator testbed
  • Keywords
    force control; manipulators; motion control; telerobotics; contact force control; flexible link; force sensor; free-space motion; industrial hydraulic manipulator testbed; long-reach micro/macro-manipulator; strain measurement; unknown environment; wrist; Bandwidth; Damping; Equations; Force control; Force feedback; Force sensors; Laboratories; Manipulator dynamics; Motion control; Wrist;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Robotics and Automation, 1997. Proceedings., 1997 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Albuquerque, NM
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-3612-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ROBOT.1997.606719
  • Filename
    606719