MANFRED

Autonomous mobile manipulator for operation in difficult environments

Main researcher: L. Moreno

Manfred_v2_1

Description

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

Entries:
Feasibility of Automated Assessment of Manual Dexterity in Parkinson’s
2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, BC, Canada
E. D. Oña A. Jardon
Towards a Framework for Rehabilitation and Assessment of Upper Limb Motor Function Based on Serious Games
6th International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (IEEE SeGAH 2018), 2018, Viena, Austria
E. D. Oña A. Jardon
Balance Computation of Objects Transported on a Tray by a Humanoid Robot Based on 3D Dynamic Slopes
In Humanoid robots, 2018 IEEE-RAS International Conference on, 2018, Beijing, China
J.M. Garcia-Haro S. Martinez

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