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:
The MATS robot: Service Climbing Robot for Personal Assistance
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. num. 1 , vol. 13 , pages: 51 – 58 , 2006
A. Gimenez A. Jardon
Robots applications against gravity
IEEE Robotics & Automation magazine. num. 1 , vol. 13 , pages: 5 – 6 , 2006

Entries:
Human-Robot Coexistence in Robot-Aided Apartment
The 23rd International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2006), Tokyo, Japan
R. Cabas R. Correal A. Gimenez S. Martinez A. Jardon
Optimized design of the underactuated robotic hand
ICRA 06. International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Orlando, United States
R. Cabas
Asibot, robot de asistencia a discapacitados y personas mayores
drt4ALL. Congreso Internacional sobre Domótica, Robótica y Teleasistencia, Madrid, Spain
R. Cabas R. Correal A. Gimenez A. Jardon
A portable light-weight climbing robot for personal assistance applications
8th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (Clawar'05). ?The Best Paper Award?, London, UK
R. Cabas R. Correal A. Gimenez A. Jardon
Live experimentation of the service robot applicationselderly people care in home environments
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'2005), Edmonton, Canada
R. Cabas R. Correal A. Gimenez A. Jardon
Design and development of a light weight embodied robotic hand activated with only one actuators
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'2005), Edmonton, Canada
R. Cabas
Wireless Teleoperation of an Assistive Robot by PDA
The 1st IFAC Symposium on Telematics Applications In Automation and Robotics, 2004, Helsinki, Finland
R. Correal A. Gimenez A. Jardon
Service robot applications for elederly people care in home environments
2nd International workshop on advances in service robotics, Sttugart, Germany
R. Cabas R. Correal A. Gimenez A. Jardon
The MATS robotic system to assist disableb people in their home environments
Intl. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS'03, Las Vegas, USA
A. Gimenez
Light weight autonomous service robot for disable and elderly people help in their living environment
Procedings of the 11th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2003), Coimbra, Portugal
A. Gimenez A. Jardon
Light weight autonomous robot for elderly and disabled persons’ service
4th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics, Yamanashi, Japan
R. Cabas R. Correal A. Gimenez P. Staroverov A. Jardon
MATS: An assistive robotic climbing system for personal care & service applications
1st Internatinal Workshop on advances in service robotics, Bardolino, Italy
A. Gimenez A. Jardon
MATS: An assistive robotic climbing system for personal care & service applications.
1st Internatinal Workshop on advances in service robotics, 2003, Bardolino, Italy
A. Gimenez A. Jardon

Entries:
M. Ferre, M. Buss, C. Melchiorri (Editors). Advances in Telerobotics
pages: 1 – 500. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR), vol. 31 , ISBN: 978-3-540-71363, 2007
ADVANCES IN TELEROBOTICS
chapter: Proprio & Teleoperation of a robotic system for disabled people assistance in domestic environments <a target="_blank" href="http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-71364-7_25">[online]</a> pages: 325 – 338. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR), vol. 31 SPRINGER NETHERLANDS EDITORIAL , ISBN: 978-3-540-71363, 2007
R. Correal A. Gimenez S. Martinez A. Jardon
M. Ferre, M. Buss, C. Melchiorri. Advances in Telerobotics
chapter: Introduction to Advances in Telerobotics pages: 1 – 10. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR), vol. 31 , ISBN: 978-3-540-71363, 2007

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