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:
Remote Interaction with Mobile Robots
Autonomous Robots. num. 3 , vol. 15 , pages: 267 – 281 , 2003
A.M. Khamis M.A. Salichs
Software Architecture for Internet Mobile Robotics
Robotics and Machine Perception. SPIE. num. 1 , vol. 12 , pages: 7 – 11 , 2003
A.M. Khamis M.A. Salichs

Entries:
Sistema de Interacción Remota con Robots Móviles basado en Internet I
I Jornadas de Trabajo: Educación en Automática. DocenWeb: Red Temática de Docencia en Control mediante Web, 2004, Alicante, Spain
A.M. Khamis R. Barber M.A. Salichs
Sistema de Interaccion Remota conRobots Moviles via Internet
II Jornadas de Redes de Investigaci¶on en Docencia Uni-versitaria, 2004, Alicante, Spain
M.A. Salichs
Pattern-based Architecture for Building Mobile Robotics Remote Laboratories
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Taipei, Taiwan
M. Rivero A.M. Khamis M.A. Salichs
Multiact Approach for Building Web-based Educational Environments: Mobile Robotics Course as a Case Study
The 11th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED'03, Rhodes, Greece
A.M. Khamis M.A. Salichs
The Merging to eLearning in Mobile Robotics
15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control (b?02), Barcelona, Spain
A.M. Khamis M.A. Salichs
Laboratorio a Distancia via Internet en Robotica Móvil
III Jornada de Trabajo – Enseñanza Vía Internet/Web de la Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática- EIWSA 2002, 2004, Alicante, Spain
A.M. Khamis M.A. Salichs
Design of a Remote Laboratory on Mobile Robots
Internet-based Control Eduaction, IBCE01, Madrid, Spain
A.M. Khamis M.A. Salichs
A Remote Laboratory for Teaching Mobile Robotics
IFAC Conference on Telematics Applications and Robotics (TA2001), 2001, Weingarten, Germany
A.M. Khamis M.A. Salichs
Teaching Mobile Robotics to Anyone, Anywhere at Anytime
1st. EURON Workshop on Robotics Education and Training RET 2001, 2001, Weingarten, Germany
A.M. Khamis M.A. Salichs
Sensorial Data Acquisition Process for a Mobile Robot in the Virtual Laboratory
International Workshop in Teleeducation in Mechatronics based on Virtual Laboratories, 2001, Weingarten, Germany
A.M. Khamis M.A. Salichs

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