Geometric Design of Spherical Serial Chains with Curvature Constraints in the Environment

dc.contributorRobson, Nina P.
dc.contributorEhsani, Mehrdad
dc.creatorTolety, Anurag Bharadwaj
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-19T15:28:32Z
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-22T17:59:53Z
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-07T20:00:37Z
dc.date.available2012-10-19T15:28:32Z
dc.date.available2012-10-22T17:59:53Z
dc.date.available2017-04-07T20:00:37Z
dc.date.created2011-08
dc.date.issued2012-10-19
dc.description.abstractThis research builds up on recent results in planar kinematic synthesis with contact direction and curvature constraints on the workpiece. The synthesis of spherical serial chains is considered to guide a rigid body, such that it does not violate normal direction and curvature constraints imposed by contact with objects in the environment. These constraints are transformed into conditions on the velocity and acceleration of points in the moving body to obtain synthesis equations which can be solved by algebraic elimination. Trajectory interpolation formulas yield the movement of the chain with the desired contact properties in each of the task positions. Example shows the application of the developed theory to the failure recovery of a robot manipulator.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-9736
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subjectrobot
dc.subjectmanipulator
dc.subjectgeometric design
dc.subjectrover
dc.titleGeometric Design of Spherical Serial Chains with Curvature Constraints in the Environment
dc.typeThesis

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