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:
Signage system for the navigation of autonomous robots in indoor environments
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. num. 1 , vol. 10 , pages: 680 – 688 , 2014
A. Corrales M. Malfaz M.A. Salichs
An autonomous social robot in fear
IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development. num. 2 , vol. 5 , pages: 135 – 151 , 2013
A. Castro-Gonzalez M. Malfaz M.A. Salichs
Fast 3D Cluster-tracking for a Mobile Robot using 2D Techniques on Depth Images
Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal. num. 4 , vol. 44 , pages: 325 – 350 , 2013
A. Ramey M. Malfaz M.A. Salichs
A new approach to modelling emotions and their use on a decision making system for artificial agent
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing . num. 1 , vol. 3 , pages: 56 – 68 , 2012
M. Malfaz M.A. Salichs
A biologically inspired architecture for an autonomous and social robot
IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development. num. 3 , vol. 3 , pages: 232 – 246 , 2011
M. Malfaz A. Castro-Gonzalez R. Barber M.A. Salichs
Integration of a voice recognition system in a social robot
Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal (Online). num. 4 , vol. 42 , pages: 215 – 245 , 2011
F. Alonso M.A. Salichs
Maggie: A Social Robot as a Gaming Platform
International Journal of Social Robotics. num. 4 , vol. 3 , pages: 371 – 381 , 2011
A. Ramey V. Gonzalez Pacheco F. Alonso A. Castro-Gonzalez M.A. Salichs
Learning to avoid risky actions
Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal. . num. 8 , vol. 42 , pages: 636 – 658 , 2011
M. Malfaz M.A. Salichs
Toma de Decisiones en Robótica
Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática industrial (RIAI). num. 4 , vol. 7 , pages: 5 – 16 , 2010
M.A. Salichs M. Malfaz Javi F. Gorostiza

Entries:
Robot self-preservation and adaptation to user preferences in game play, a preliminary study
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (IEEE-ROBIO 2011), 2011, Phuket Island, Thailand
A. Castro-Gonzalez M. Malfaz M.A. Salichs
Playzones : A robust detector of game boards for playing visual games with robots
Robot 2011 – III Workshop de Robótica : Robótica Experimental, Sevilla, Spain
A. Ramey M.A. Salichs
Selection of Actions for an Autonomous Social Robot
International Conference on Social Robotics. Best Student Paper Finalist (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17248-9_12), 2010, Singapore, Singapore
A. Castro-Gonzalez M. Malfaz M.A. Salichs
Using a Social Robot as a Gaming Platform
International Conference on Social Robotics 2010, 2011, Singapore, Singapore
A. Ramey V. Gonzalez Pacheco F. Alonso A. Castro-Gonzalez M.A. Salichs
Infrared Remote Control with a Social Robot
FIRA RoboWorld Congress 2009. International Conference on Social Robotics (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03986-7_10), 2009, Incheon, Korea
A. Castro-Gonzalez M.A. Salichs
Learning to deal with objects
ICDL09: The 8th International Conference on Development and Learning , Shanghai, China
M. Malfaz M.A. Salichs

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