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Controlling flexible robot arms using high speed dynamics process
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Copyright Year | 1996 |
| Description | A robot manipulator controller for a flexible manipulator arm having plural bodies connected at respective movable hinges and flexible in plural deformation modes corresponding to respective modal spatial influence vectors relating deformations of plural spaced nodes of respective bodies to the plural deformation modes, operates by computing articulated body quantities for each of the bodies from respective modal spatial influence vectors, obtaining specified body forces for each of the bodies, and computing modal deformation accelerations of the nodes and hinge accelerations of the hinges from the specified body forces, from the articulated body quantities and from the modal spatial influence vectors. In one embodiment of the invention, the controller further operates by comparing the accelerations thus computed to desired manipulator motion to determine a motion discrepancy, and correcting the specified body forces so as to reduce the motion discrepancy. The manipulator bodies and hinges are characterized by respective vectors of deformation and hinge configuration variables, and computing modal deformation accelerations and hinge accelerations is carried out for each one of the bodies beginning with the outermost body by computing a residual body force from a residual body force of a previous body and from the vector of deformation and hinge configuration variables, computing a resultant hinge acceleration from the body force, the residual body force and the articulated hinge inertia, and revising the residual body force modal body acceleration. |
| File Size | 2685493 |
| Page Count | 37 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19970016221 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t0fv3h73c |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1996-08-13 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Mechanical Engineering Controllers Hinges Patents Robot Arms Inventions Manipulators Robot Dynamics Robotics Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Patent |
