MANFRED

Autonomous mobile manipulator for operation in difficult environments(MANFRED)

Funding: Ministry of Science and Technology (Spanish Govern

2002- 2004

The aim of the project is to develop an autonomous mobile manipulator able to operate efficiently in environments where human manipulation capabilities are required.
Due to the presence of obstacles, fixed or mobile, narrow places, locations with a high number of obstacles, doors, safety valves and other elements in typical human environments, mobile manipulators require a high level of autonomy in movements and manipulation. To cope with autonomy requirements a combination of displacement, manipulation and sensorial capabilites are nedeed. Other important aspect in many kind of environments is the presence of persons. Safety considerations need to be carefully considered from a sensorial point of view and specially in those aspects relatives to the manipulator (light wheight and moderate speeds. MANFRED has a coordinated control of all degree of freedom in the system (the mobile base 2 DOF and the manipulator 6 DOF) to achieve a good and robust movement in order to develope efficiently different tasks. This mobile manipulator use a sensorial system based in vision and 3-D laser telemetry to perceive and model 3-D environments. This sensorial system have to be coordinated with the control system to manipulate objects than can be located in uncertain location of the espace. The mobile manipulator will include all the capabilities needed to navigate, localize and avoid obstacles safely through the environment

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Books
- C.Castejon; D.Blanco; B.L.Boada; L.Moreno. Innovations in Robot Mobility and Control. Chapter: Voronoi-based outdoor traversable region modelling. pp.201-250. ISBN: 3-540-26892-8. Springer-Verlag. 2005.
Journal publications
- J. V.Gómez; A.Lumbier; S.Garrido; L.Moreno. Planning Robot Formations with Fast Marching Square Including Uncertainty Conditions. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2012.10.009. Vol. 61. No. 2. pp.137-152. 2013.
- D.Blanco; S.Kadhim; C.Castejon; B.L.Boada; L.Moreno. MANFRED: Robot antropomórfico de servicio fiable y seguro para operar en entornos humanos . Revista Iberoamericana de Ingeniería Mecánica (ISSN: 1137-2729). Vol. 9. No. 3. pp.33-48. 2005.
- B.L.Boada; D.Blanco; L.Moreno. Symbolic Place Recognition in Voronoi-based maps by Using Hidden Markov Models. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems. Vol. 39. No. . pp.173-197. 2004.
- C.Castejon; D.Blanco; B.L.Boada; L.Moreno. Desarrollo de un sistema de percepción de una plataforma móvil para entornos exteriores. Revista Iberoamerica de Ingeniería Mecánica (ISSN : 1137-2729). Vol. 8. No. 3. pp.3-23. 2004.
- L.Moreno; E.Dapena. Path Quality Measures for Sensor-based Motion Planning.. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. Vol. 44. No. 2. pp.131-150. 2003.
Conference publications
- S.Kadhim; D.Blanco; L.Moreno. Lightweight robot design for mobile manipulators. International Conference on MECHATRONICS ICOM 2003. Loughborough. U.K.. Jun, 2003. Proceedings. ISBN: 1-86058-420-9. Professional Engineering Publishing LTD. pp.519-524. 2003.
- L.Moreno; B.L.Boada; C.Castejon. Topo-geometric modelling and localization in indoor environments. 28th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society IECON 2002. Seville. Spain. Nov, 2002. Proceedings of the 2002 28th Annual Conf. of the IEEE UIndustrial Electronics Society. ISBN: 0-7803-7474-6. IEEE. pp.2587-2592. 2002.
- C.Castejon; B.L.Boada; L.Moreno. Topographical analysis for Voronoi-based modelling. 28th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society IECON 2002. Seville. Spain. Nov, 2002. Proceedings of the 2002 28th Annual Conf. of the IEEE UIndustrial Electronics Society. ISBN: 0-7803-7474-6. IEEE. pp.2548-2553. 2002.
- D.Blanco; C.Balaguer; L.Moreno. Safe Local Path Planning for Human-Mobile Manipulator Cooperation . 2nd IARP/IEEE-RAS Joint Workshop on Technical Challenge for Dependable Robots in Human Environments. Toulouse. France. Oct, 2002.
- B.L.Boada; D.Blanco; L.Moreno. Localization and Modelling Approach Using Topogeometric Maps. Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems IROS 2002. Lausanne. Switzerland. Sep, 2002. Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf on Intelligent Robot and Systems. ISBN: 0-7803-7398-7. IEEE. pp.484-489. 2002.
- E.Dapena; L.Moreno. Path planning with uncertainty. 18th Int. Conf. on CAD/CAM, Robotics and Factories of the future CARS&FOF 2002. Oporto. Portugal. Jul, 2002.
- S.Garrido; L.Moreno; M.A.Salichs. On-line Identification of Dynamic Systems with Restricted Genetic Optimization. 4th IFAC Workshop on Algorithms and Architectures for Real-Time Control. Vilamoura. Portugal. Apr, 1997.
- J.R.Pimentel; D.Gachet; L.Moreno; M.A.Salichs. On line Performance Enhancement of a Behavioral Neural Network Controller. International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks. Sitges. Spain. Jun, 1993. New Trends in Neural Computation. ISBN: 3-540-56798-4. Springer Verlag. pp.694-701. 1993.
- D.Gachet; M.A.Salichs; E.A.Puente; L.Moreno; R.Valverde. Experiments with a Distributed Neural Network Controller for an Autonomous Mobile Robot. Workshop on Integration in Real Time Intelligent Control, IRTICS'93. Miraflores, Mad. Spain. Nov, 1992.
- L.Moreno; J.R.Pimentel; E.A.Puente; M.A.Salichs. Mobile Robot Multitarget Tracking in Dynamic Environments. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. Raleigh. NC, USA. Jun, 1992. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. ISBN: 0-7803-0738-0. IEEE Publishing Services. pp.1464-1469. 1992.
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