Development of a dual robotic arm system to evaluate intelligent system for advanced construction machinery

This paper reports a newly developed hydraulic dual robotic arm system to create and evaluate intelligent systems, which support complicated machine operations, for advanced construction machinery. This kind of machine system (test-bed) requires functions to quantify its dynamic characteristics and operational difficulty (influential factors). In particular, construction manipulator nonlinearly changes its dynamics depending on various internal and external factors. To quantify such influential factors, our proposed test-bed is equipped with standard hydromechanical system which includes two manipulators and grapples, and practical sensing system which detects control input, oil pressure, oil temperature, and cylinder stroke data. Using the developed test-bed, fundamental experiments were conducted to clarify hydromechanical system characteristics. Experimental results indicate that the test-bed quantifies its hysteresis, pressure loss, and time delay, and show that variable dynamics complicates intuitive and precise machine operations and external force measurement. This analysis confirms the developed machine system is useful to quantify influential factors for creating intelligent system.