We present an iterative approach for planning and controlling motions of underactuated robots with uncertain dynamics. At its core, there is a learning process which estimates the perturbations induced by the model uncertainty on the active and passive degrees of freedom. The generic iteration of...
Robot Control
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The dynamic uncertainties and disturbances characterizing continuum soft robots call for the derivation of simple and possibly information-free controllers. We propose an iterative learning control law for shape regulation of continuum soft robots consisting of a PD action and a feedforward term,...
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We present a generalized version of the Saturation in the Null Space (SNS) algorithm for the task control of redundant robots when hard inequality constraints are simultaneously present both in the joint and in the Cartesian space. These hard bounds should never be violated, are treated equally and...
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We present an improved version of the Saturation in the Null Space (SNS) algorithm for redundancy resolution at the velocity level. In addition to hard bounds on joint space motion, we consider also Cartesian box constraints that cannot be violated at any time. The modified algorithm combines all...
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Performing precise, repetitive motions is essential in many robotic and automation systems. Iterative learning con- trol (ILC) allows determining the necessary control command by using a very rough system model to speed up the process. Functional iterative learning control is a novel technique that...
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In physical human-robot interaction (pHRI) it is essential to reliably estimate and localize contact forces between the robot and the environment. In this paper, a complete contact detection, isolation, and reaction scheme is presented and tested on a new 6-dof industrial collaborative robot. We...
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Soft robots are intrinsically underactuated mechanical systems that operate under uncertainties and disturbances. In these conditions, this letter proposes two versions of PID-like control laws with a saturated integral action for the particularly challenging shape regulation task. The closed-loop...
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As part of the 2023 course program of the European Embedded Control Institute (EECI), http://www.eeci-igsc.eu, the International Graduate School on Control of Soft...
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TITLE: Putting energy and geometry back in robotics
ABSTRACT: Whether fixed to the ground, moving in a room, swimming in water, or flying in air, robots inherently interact with their environment in a bilateral manner. From a system theoretic... -
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Wandercraft is a french Paris-based company developing Atalante, an advanced lower-limb medical exoskeleton enabling wheelchair users to walk on their own legs once again, certified as a medical device and commercially sold in the EU and in...