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:
A ROS-BASED MIDDLE-COST ROBOTIC PLATFORM WITH HIGH-PERFORMANCE
ICERI2015, The 8th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation , 2015, Sevilla, Spain.
C. Gómez A. C. Hernández J. Crespo R. Barber
A Home Made Robotic Platform based on Theo Jansen Mechanism for Teaching Robotics
The 10th annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference, 2016, Valencia, Spain
A. C. Hernández C. Gómez J. Crespo R. Barber
Experimental Error Compensation of the Linear Inverted Pendulum Model for humanoid robot TEO
2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017, Vancouver, BC, Canada
J.M. Garcia-Haro S. Martinez M. Pinel
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

Entries:
RoboCity16 Open Conference on Future Trends in Robotics
chapter: Object Perception applied to Daily Life Environments for Mobile Robot Navigation pages: 105 – 112. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Madrid, España , ISBN: 978-84-608-8452-1, 2016
A. C. Hernández C. Gómez J. Crespo R. Barber
RoboCity16 Open Conference on Future Trends in Robotics
chapter: A Topological Navigation System based on Multiple Events for Usual Human Environments Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Madrid, España , ISBN: 978-84-608-8452-1, 2016
C. Gómez A. C. Hernández J. Crespo R. Barber

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