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:
3D Object Reconstruction with a Single RGB-Depth Image
Accepted as full paper at the <A href="http://www.visapp.visigrapp.org/">International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2013)</A>, 2013, Barcelona, Spain
N. Burrus S. Rodriguez M. Abderrahim
Visual Perception System within HANDLE EU project using ROS
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2012) Tutorial: Handling ROS – Introductory tutorial to ROS and its use for robot in-hand manipulation., Vila Moura, Alg, Portugal
S. Rodriguez
Object Pose Estimation and Tracking by Fusing Visual and Tactile Information
<A href="http://mfi-2012.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/">Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI 2012)</A>, 2012, Hamburg, Germany
N. Burrus S. Rodriguez M. Abderrahim
3D Visual Perception System for Grasping with an Anthropomorphic Hand
<A href="http://cogsys2012.acin.tuwien.ac.at/">5th International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2012)</A>, 2012, Vienna, Austria
N. Burrus S. Rodriguez J.G. Quijano C. Bensalah M. Abderrahim
Toward the sense of touch in snake modular robots for search and rescue operations.
In Proc of the ICRA 2010 workshop on modular robots: State of the art., 2010, Anchorage, Alaska
J.G. Quijano M. Abderrahim
Toward the sense of touch in snake modular robots for search and rescue operations
In Proc of the ICRA 2010 workshop on modular robots, Anchorage, Alaska
J.G. Quijano M. Abderrahim

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