Determination of maximum tangential velocity at trajectory corners in robot manipulator operation under torque constraint

Addresses the trajectory tracking problem of industrial robot manipulators, at the corners of a Cartesian three-dimensional trajectory. The goal is to determine the maximum tangential velocity of the end-effector as it traverses a circular arc at a trajectory corner while avoiding joint acceleration saturation. The proposed method first derives the relationship between end-effector velocity and joint accelerations, and then develops a criterion to determine maximum tangential velocity so that only one joint marginally reaches its acceleration limit at a single point on the circular arc. The method was successfully experimented with, and improved performance has been demonstrated.