The ^(12)C+^(12)C fusion is one of the most important reactions in modern nuclear astrophysics.The trend and magnitude of the reaction rate within the Gamow window strongly influence various astrophysical processes.Ho...The ^(12)C+^(12)C fusion is one of the most important reactions in modern nuclear astrophysics.The trend and magnitude of the reaction rate within the Gamow window strongly influence various astrophysical processes.However,direct measurement of this reaction is extremely difficult,which makes it necessary to develop indirect methods.In this study,the ^(23)Na+p reaction system was used to study the compound nucleus ^(24)Mg.We employed a thick-target inverse kinematics method combined with the-charged-particle coincidence technique to measure the proton andexit channels of ^(24)Mg.Technical details of the ^(23)Na+p thick-target inverse kinematics experiment and analysis are presented herein.展开更多
The kinematic redundancy in a robot leads to an infinite number of solutions for inverse kinematics, which implies the possibility to select a 'best' solution according to an optimization criterion. In this pa...The kinematic redundancy in a robot leads to an infinite number of solutions for inverse kinematics, which implies the possibility to select a 'best' solution according to an optimization criterion. In this paper, two optimization objective functions are proposed, aiming at either minimizing extra degrees of freedom (DOFs) or minimizing the total potential energy of a multilink redundant robot. Physical constraints of either equality or inequality types are taken into consideration in the objective functions. Since the closed-form solutions do not exist in general for highly nonlinear and constrained optimization problems, we adopt and develop two numerical methods, which are verified to be effective and precise in solving the two optimization problems associated with the redundant inverse kinematics. We first verify that the well established trajectory following method can precisely solve the two optimization problems, but is computation intensive. To reduce the computation time, a sequential approach that combines the sequential quadratic programming and iterative Newton-Raphson algorithm is developed. A 4-DOF Fujitsu Hoap-1 humanoid robot arm is used as a prototype to validate the effectiveness of the proposed optimization solutions.展开更多
This paper proposes an analytical solution for a 5-DOF manipulator to follow a given trajectory while keeping the orientation of one axis in the end-effector frame. The forward kinematics and inverse kinematics for a ...This paper proposes an analytical solution for a 5-DOF manipulator to follow a given trajectory while keeping the orientation of one axis in the end-effector frame. The forward kinematics and inverse kinematics for a 5-DOF manipulator are analyzed systematically. The singular problem is discussed after the forward kinematics is provided. For any given reachable position and orientation of the end-effector, the derived inverse kinematics will provide an accurate solution. In other words, there exists no singular problem for the 5-DOF manipulator, which has wide application areas such as welding, spraying, and painting. Experiment results verify the effectiveness of the methods developed in this paper. Keywords Inverse kinematics - modeling and control - 5-DOF manipulator This work was supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (No. 2002AA422160), and the National Key Fundamental Research and Development Project of China (973, No.2002CB312200)De Xu graduated from Shandong University of Technology (SUT), China in 1985. He received a Masters degree from SUT in 1990, and a Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University, China in 2001. He has been with the Institute of Automation, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) since 2001. He is an associate professor with the Laboratory of Complex Systems and Intelligence Science, CASIA. He worked as on academic visitor in the Department of Computer Science, at the University of Essex from May to August 2004. He is a member of the IEEE. His research interests include robotics and automation, especially the control of robots such as visual and intelligent control.Carlos Antonio Acosta Calderon received a B.S. degree in Computer Science Engineering from Pachuca Institute of Technology, Mexico in 2000, and a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science (Robotics and Intelligent Machines) from the University of Essex, UK in 2001. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D degree in Computer Science at the University of Essex, UK. His research interests have focused on mobile robots, in particular, the coordination of multi-robot systems, mobile manipulators, and learning by imitation. He is a member of IEEE.John Q. Gan received a B.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from Northwestern Polytechnic University, China in 1982, a M.Eng. degree in automatic control and a Ph.D degree in biomedical electronics from Southeast University, China in 1985 and 1991, respectively. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Essex, UK. He has co-authored a book, and published over 100 research papers. His research interests are in robotics and intelligent systems, brain-computer interfaces, pattern recognition, signal processing, data fusion, and neurofuzzy computation.Huosheng Hu is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, at the University of Essex, and head of the Human Centered Robotics Group. His research interests include autonomous mobile robots, human-robot interaction, evolutionary robotics, multi-robot collaboration, embedded systems, pervasive computing, sensor integration, RoboCup, intelligent control, and networked robotics. He has published over 200 papers in journals, books, and conferences, and received two best paper awards. He is a founding member of the IEEE Society of Robotics and Automation Technical Committee of Internet and Online Robots, and a member of the IASTED Technical Committee on “Robotics” for 2001–2004. He was a Conference Chairman for the 1st European Embedded Systems Conference in Paris, 1996, and has been a member of the Program Committees for many international conferences such as IROS (2005–2006), IASTED Robotics and Applications Conferences (2000-present), and RoboCup Symposiums (2000–2004). Dr. Hu is a Chartered Engineer, a senior member of IEEE, and a member of IEE, AAAI, ACM, IASTED and IAS.Min Tan graduated from Tsing Hua University, China in 1986. He received a Ph.D. degree in 1990 from CASIA. He is a professor with the Laboratory of Complex Systems and Intelligence Science, CASIA. He has published over 100 papers in journals, books, and conferences. His research interests include robotics and complex system theory.展开更多
To solve the inverse kinematics problem for redundant degrees of freedom（DOFs）manipulators has been and still continues to be quite challenging in the field of robotics.Aiming at trajectory planning for a 7-DOF spac...To solve the inverse kinematics problem for redundant degrees of freedom（DOFs）manipulators has been and still continues to be quite challenging in the field of robotics.Aiming at trajectory planning for a 7-DOF space manipulator system,joint rotation trajectories are obtained from predetermined motion trajectories and poses of the end effector in Cartesian space based on the proposed generalized inverse kinematics method.A minimum norm method is employed to choose the best trajectory among available trajectories.Numerical simulations with the7-DOF manipulator show that the proposed method can achieve the planned trajectory and pose under the circumstances of minimum angular velocities.Moreover,trajectory results from the proposed kinematics model and inverse kinematics method has the advantages of simple modelling,low computation cost,easy to solve and plan trajectory conveniently.The smooth and continuous joint rotation functions obtained from the proposed method are suitable for practical engineering applications.展开更多
Wavelet network, a class of neural network consisting of wavelets, is proposed to solve the inverse kinematics problem in robotic manipulator. A wavelet network suitable for dealing with multi-input and multi-output s...Wavelet network, a class of neural network consisting of wavelets, is proposed to solve the inverse kinematics problem in robotic manipulator. A wavelet network suitable for dealing with multi-input and multi-output system is constructed. The network is optimized by reducing the number of wavelets handling large dimension problem according to the sample data. The algorithms for sparseness analysis of input data and fitting wavelets to the output data with orthogonal method are introduced. Then Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm is used to train the network. Simulation results showed that this method is capable of solving the inverse kinematics problem for PUMA560.展开更多
Off line programming provides an essential link between CAD and CAM, whose development will result in greater use of robotic arc welding. An arc welding system with a robot and a rotating/tilting positioner is one of...Off line programming provides an essential link between CAD and CAM, whose development will result in greater use of robotic arc welding. An arc welding system with a robot and a rotating/tilting positioner is one of the most typical workcells. The inverse kinematics of robot and positioner is the foundation of the off line programming system. The previous researchers only focused on a special solution of the positioner inverse kinematics, which is the solution at down hand welding position. In this paper, we introduce a method for representing welding position. Then a general algorithm of rotating/tilting positioner inverse kinematics is presented, and an approach to find the unique solution of the inverse kinematics is discussed. The simulation experiment results show that the general algorithm can improve the ability of robotic arc welding off line programming system to program all types of welding positions.展开更多
An iterative method is introduced successfully to solve the inverse kinematics of a 6-DOF manipulator of a tunnel drilling rig based on dual quaternion, which is difficult to get the solution by Denavit-Hartenberg(D-H...An iterative method is introduced successfully to solve the inverse kinematics of a 6-DOF manipulator of a tunnel drilling rig based on dual quaternion, which is difficult to get the solution by Denavit-Hartenberg(D-H) based methods. By the intuitive expression of dual quaternion to the orientation of rigid body, the coordinate frames assigned to each joint are established all in the same orientation, which does not need to use the D-H procedure. The compact and simple form of kinematic equations, consisting of position equations and orientation equations, is also the consequence of dual quaternion calculations. The iterative process is basically of two steps which are related to solving the position equations and orientation equations correspondingly. First, assume an initial value of the iterative variable; then, the position equations can be solved because of the reduced number of unknown variables in the position equations and the orientation equations can be solved by applying the solution from the position equations, which obtains an updated value for the iterative variable; finally, repeat the procedure by using the updated iterative variable to the position equations till the prescribed accuracy is obtained. The method proposed has a clear geometric meaning, and the algorithm is simple and direct. Simulation for 100 poses of the end frame shows that the average running time of inverse kinematics calculation for each demanded pose of end-effector is 7.2 ms on an ordinary laptop, which is good enough for practical use. The iteration counts 2-4 cycles generally, which is a quick convergence. The method proposed here has been successfully used in the project of automating a hydraulic rig.展开更多
A redundant manipulator that can online clamp pipe was developed to track along a cylinder intersection curve. With an ultrasonic transducer mounted on its end-effector, the manipulator can perform welding seam inspec...A redundant manipulator that can online clamp pipe was developed to track along a cylinder intersection curve. With an ultrasonic transducer mounted on its end-effector, the manipulator can perform welding seam inspection at pipe joint in nuclear industry. An inverse kinematics solution expressed in joint space was solved based on the combination of geometric method and D-H matrix transformation. Expression about joints variables was obtained based on the scanning parameters of pipeline. The analysis method and results can be widely applied for online trajectory planning of intersection curve scanning manipulators.展开更多
A robot used for multi-pass welding of the piping branch junctions and nozzle attachments to main pressure vessels is 4-DOF serial mechanism, two mobile joints and two rotary joints are adopted in design. The kinemati...A robot used for multi-pass welding of the piping branch junctions and nozzle attachments to main pressure vessels is 4-DOF serial mechanism, two mobile joints and two rotary joints are adopted in design. The kinematic model was established with DH parameters, the inverse kinematics was solved. According to the forward and inverse kinematics equations, the robot kinematics was simulated in Matlab, the simulations indicate that the solution for inverse kinematics can satisfy the welding requirements well. As there are size errors, processing errors and welding deformation, the path of welding is forecasted according to the previous welding situation, and then, the path is taught at desired via-points, which plays an important role in submerged-arc welding. The submerged-arc welding experiments indicate that the robot and the welding methods are preferable to ensure welding quality.展开更多
Neutrons have played a vital role in many nuclear physics fields.In some cases,the inverse kinematics of neutrons colliding with other nuclei are also worth studying.In this study,the inverse kinematics of thermal neu...Neutrons have played a vital role in many nuclear physics fields.In some cases,the inverse kinematics of neutrons colliding with other nuclei are also worth studying.In this study,the inverse kinematics of thermal neutrons colliding with high-energy protons is simulated by using the Monte Carlo method.Thermal neutrons are taken as target particles,whereas protons are incident particles.The simulation implies that,after collision,the energy of the output neutron at 0°equals the energy of the incident proton.A possible application of the result is proposed that might yield single-energy neutrons.Some key parameters of the conceptual design were evaluated,demonstrating that the design may reach high-neutron-energy resolution.展开更多
A rail type mobile robot introduced in this paper is used to carry out automatic welding on the T, Y and K-joints in offshore platform jackets. This robotic system is composed of a mobile platform and a serial manipul...A rail type mobile robot introduced in this paper is used to carry out automatic welding on the T, Y and K-joints in offshore platform jackets. This robotic system is composed of a mobile platform and a serial manipulator. The structure of manipulator was designed according to the mathematical modeling of single brace tubular joint ; some improvements of the robot mechanism were considered to improve the flexibility＂ of manipulator and increase the workspace. The inverse kinematics analysis was solved through two steps calculation. The collision avoidance strategy used in the K-joint automatic welding was discussed. Moreover, the simulation results were presented to demonstrate the feasibility of the robot mechanism used in tubular joint welding and the validity of the joint value calculation method.展开更多
Presents a fast and effective method proposed by combining the fuzzy C means (FCM) and the fuzzy neural network for solving robot inverse kinematics, and its successful application to the robot inverse kinematics and ...Presents a fast and effective method proposed by combining the fuzzy C means (FCM) and the fuzzy neural network for solving robot inverse kinematics, and its successful application to the robot inverse kinematics and concludes from simulation results that this new method not only has high efficiency and accuracy, but also good generalization, and it also overcomes the "dimension disaster" of fuzzy set in a fuzzy neural network fairly well.展开更多
：This paper uses a 7-degree-of-freedom （7-DOF） manipulator end-effector to research inverse kinematics solution, Three methods are used and compared, including fixing an angle method, the iteration method and the n...：This paper uses a 7-degree-of-freedom （7-DOF） manipulator end-effector to research inverse kinematics solution, Three methods are used and compared, including fixing an angle method, the iteration method and the neutral network method. By comparison, the iteration method is much better because of its high accuracy, fast speed and stabilization, and it does not require calculation of the pseudoinverse of the 2acobian. Thus, this control scheme is well suited for real-time im- plementation, which is essential if the end-effector trajectory is continuously modified based on sensor＇s feedback. Finally, using VC ＋ ＋ and Microsoft foundation classes （MFC） to achieve the main machine interface. Through verification, the precision meets the requirements of general control system in real-time implementation.展开更多
This paper presents some initial solutions to the problem of accuracy and repeatability of the arm position placement in applied kinematics by solving the inverse kinematics problem of a serial jointed manipulator who...This paper presents some initial solutions to the problem of accuracy and repeatability of the arm position placement in applied kinematics by solving the inverse kinematics problem of a serial jointed manipulator whose forward kinematics solution was earlier presented to solve the position placement problem of a mobile manipulator for Lunar Oxygen production. The problem herein is that of identifying a combination of joint angles to effectively position the end-effecter at a specified location in space. The reverse solution as presented in this paper is predicated on DH＇s （Denavit-Hartenberg＇s） technique for robot arm position analysis. The generalized solution for the 5-degrees of freedom DOF （degree of freedom） revolute joint variables which comprises 2-1inks and a spade-like 3-DOF end-effecter was obtained by solving a set of algebraic equations emerging from series of transformation matrices. The proposed solution herein has a high degree of accuracy and repeatability for workspace reachable domains where joint combination is analytic.展开更多
Proton knockout reactions are a widely used tool to study nuclear ground-state distributions. While the interpretation of traditional experiments in direct kinematics has to account for initial and final state interac...Proton knockout reactions are a widely used tool to study nuclear ground-state distributions. While the interpretation of traditional experiments in direct kinematics has to account for initial and final state interactions, experiments in inverse kinematics can overcome such limitations. We discuss results of an experiment at the BM@N setup at JINR using a <sup>12</sup>C beam at 48 GeV/c to study quasi-elastic scattering reactions, single proton distributions, and short-range correlated nucleon-nucleon pairs. The inverse kinematics allows for the direct measurement of the nucleon-nucleon pair center-of-mass motion and provides first experimental evidence for scale separation of such pairs. Based on these results, we will in the future study neutron-rich nuclei in inverse kinematics in the context of short-range correlations and neutron stars.展开更多
Inspired by the driving muscles of the human arm,a 4-Degree of Freedom(DOF)concentrated driving humanoid robotic arm is proposed based on a spatial double parallel four-bar mechanism.The four-bar mechanism design redu...Inspired by the driving muscles of the human arm,a 4-Degree of Freedom(DOF)concentrated driving humanoid robotic arm is proposed based on a spatial double parallel four-bar mechanism.The four-bar mechanism design reduces the inertia of the elbow-driving unit and the torque by 76.65%and 57.81%,respectively.Mimicking the human pose regulation strategy that the human arm picks up a heavy object by adjusting its posture naturally without complicated control,the robotic arm features an integrated position-level closed-form inverse solution method considering both geometric and load capacity limitations.This method consists of a geometric constraint model incorporating the arm angle(φ)and the Global Configuration(GC)to avoid joint limits and singularities,and a load capacity model to constrain the feasible domain of the arm angle.Further,trajectory tracking simulations and experiments are conducted to validate the feasibility of the proposed inverse solution method.The simulated maximum output torque,maximum output power and total energy consumption of the robotic arm are reduced by up to 2.0%,13.3%,and 33.3%,respectively.The experimental results demonstrate that the robotic arm can bear heavy loads in a human-like posture,effectively reducing the maximum output torque and energy consumption of the robotic arm by 1.83%and 5.03%,respectively,while avoiding joints beyond geometric and load capacity limitations.The proposed design provides a high payload–weight ratio and an efficient pose control solution for robotic arms,which can potentially broaden the application spectrum of humanoid robots.展开更多
Forward and backward reaching inverse kinematics(FABRIK)is an efficient two-stage iterative solver for inverse kinematics of spherical-joint manipulator without the calculation of Jacobian matrix.Based on FABRIK,this ...Forward and backward reaching inverse kinematics(FABRIK)is an efficient two-stage iterative solver for inverse kinematics of spherical-joint manipulator without the calculation of Jacobian matrix.Based on FABRIK,this paper presents an incremental control scheme for a free-floating space manipulator consists of revolute joints and rigid links with the consideration of joint constraints and dynamic coupling effect.Due to the characteristics of FABRIK,it can induce large angular movements on specific joints.Apart from that,FABRIK maps three dimensional(3D)problem into two dimensional(2D)problem by a simple geometric projection.This operation can cause infinite loops in some cases.In order to overcome these issues and apply FABRIK on space manipulators,an increments allocation method is developed to constrain the angular movements as well as to re-orient the end-effector.The manipulator is re-positioned based on the momentum conservation law.Instead of pure target position tracking,the orientation control of the end-effector is also considered.Numerical simulation is performed to testify and demonstrate the effectiveness and reliability of the proposed incremental control approach.展开更多
A methodology is presented whereby a neural network is used to learn the inverse kinematic relationships of the position and orientation of a six joint manipulator. The arm solution for the orientation of a manipulato...A methodology is presented whereby a neural network is used to learn the inverse kinematic relationships of the position and orientation of a six joint manipulator. The arm solution for the orientation of a manipulator using a self organizing neural net is studied in this paper. A new training model of the self organizing neural network is proposed by thoroughly studying Martinetz, Ritter and Schulten′s self organizing neural network based on Kohonen′s self organizing mapping algorithm using a Widrow Hoff type error correction rule and closely combining the characters of the inverse kinematic relationship for a robot arm. The computer simulation results for a PUMA 560 robot show that the proposed method has a significant improvement over other methods documented in the references in self organizing capability and precision by training process.展开更多
The redundant humanoid manipulator has characteristics of multiple degrees of freedom and complex joint structure, and it is not easy to obtain its inverse kinematics solution. The inverse kinematics problem of a huma...The redundant humanoid manipulator has characteristics of multiple degrees of freedom and complex joint structure, and it is not easy to obtain its inverse kinematics solution. The inverse kinematics problem of a humanoid manipulator can be formulated as an equivalent minimization problem, and thus it can be solved using some numerical optimization methods. Biogeography-based optimization （BBO） is a new biogeography inspired optimization algorithm, and it can be adopted to solve the inverse kinematics problem of a humanoid manipulator. The standard BBO algorithm that uses traditional migration and mutation operators suffers from slow convergence and prematurity. A hybrid biogeography-based optimization （HBBO） algorithm, which is based on BBO and differential evolution （DE）, is presented. In this hybrid algorithm, new habitats in the ecosystem are produced through a hybrid migration operator, that is, the BBO migration strategy and Did/best/I/bin differential strategy, to alleviate slow convergence at the later evolution stage of the algorithm. In addition, a Gaussian mutation operator is adopted to enhance the exploration ability and improve the diversity of the population. Based on these, an 8-DOF （degree of freedom） redundant humanoid manipulator is employed as an example. The end-effector error （position and orientation） and the ＇away limitation level＇ value of the 8-DOF humanoid manipulator constitute the fitness function of HBBO. The proposed HBBO algorithm has been used to solve the inverse kinematics problem of the 8-DOF redundant humanoid manipulator. Numerical simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of this method.展开更多
A 6-DOF cooperative manipulator is used for human spinal deformity detection.In order to ensure the scanning quality of spinal deformity and improve the solution rate and speed of inverse motion solution of the manipu...A 6-DOF cooperative manipulator is used for human spinal deformity detection.In order to ensure the scanning quality of spinal deformity and improve the solution rate and speed of inverse motion solution of the manipulator,an inverse kinematics analytical method based on spherical geometry is proposed in this paper.We take the AUBO-i5 collaborative manipulator as the research object,which combines the rapidity of analytical solution with the flexibility of spherical solution.In the Robot Operating System,the simulation experiment solves the inverse kinematics of 10000 sets of randomly generated postures.The success rate and time-consuming of the solution are calculated.Compared with the two commonly used inverse kinematics solving algorithms,TRAC-IK and KDL,this method has obvious advantages in terms of success rate and average time-consuming.展开更多
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文摘The ^(12)C+^(12)C fusion is one of the most important reactions in modern nuclear astrophysics.The trend and magnitude of the reaction rate within the Gamow window strongly influence various astrophysical processes.However,direct measurement of this reaction is extremely difficult,which makes it necessary to develop indirect methods.In this study,the ^(23)Na+p reaction system was used to study the compound nucleus ^(24)Mg.We employed a thick-target inverse kinematics method combined with the-charged-particle coincidence technique to measure the proton andexit channels of ^(24)Mg.Technical details of the ^(23)Na+p thick-target inverse kinematics experiment and analysis are presented herein.
文摘The kinematic redundancy in a robot leads to an infinite number of solutions for inverse kinematics, which implies the possibility to select a 'best' solution according to an optimization criterion. In this paper, two optimization objective functions are proposed, aiming at either minimizing extra degrees of freedom (DOFs) or minimizing the total potential energy of a multilink redundant robot. Physical constraints of either equality or inequality types are taken into consideration in the objective functions. Since the closed-form solutions do not exist in general for highly nonlinear and constrained optimization problems, we adopt and develop two numerical methods, which are verified to be effective and precise in solving the two optimization problems associated with the redundant inverse kinematics. We first verify that the well established trajectory following method can precisely solve the two optimization problems, but is computation intensive. To reduce the computation time, a sequential approach that combines the sequential quadratic programming and iterative Newton-Raphson algorithm is developed. A 4-DOF Fujitsu Hoap-1 humanoid robot arm is used as a prototype to validate the effectiveness of the proposed optimization solutions.
基金This work was supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (No. 2002AA422160)the National Key Fundamental Research and Development Project of China (973, No.2002CB312200)
文摘This paper proposes an analytical solution for a 5-DOF manipulator to follow a given trajectory while keeping the orientation of one axis in the end-effector frame. The forward kinematics and inverse kinematics for a 5-DOF manipulator are analyzed systematically. The singular problem is discussed after the forward kinematics is provided. For any given reachable position and orientation of the end-effector, the derived inverse kinematics will provide an accurate solution. In other words, there exists no singular problem for the 5-DOF manipulator, which has wide application areas such as welding, spraying, and painting. Experiment results verify the effectiveness of the methods developed in this paper. Keywords Inverse kinematics - modeling and control - 5-DOF manipulator This work was supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (No. 2002AA422160), and the National Key Fundamental Research and Development Project of China (973, No.2002CB312200)De Xu graduated from Shandong University of Technology (SUT), China in 1985. He received a Masters degree from SUT in 1990, and a Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University, China in 2001. He has been with the Institute of Automation, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) since 2001. He is an associate professor with the Laboratory of Complex Systems and Intelligence Science, CASIA. He worked as on academic visitor in the Department of Computer Science, at the University of Essex from May to August 2004. He is a member of the IEEE. His research interests include robotics and automation, especially the control of robots such as visual and intelligent control.Carlos Antonio Acosta Calderon received a B.S. degree in Computer Science Engineering from Pachuca Institute of Technology, Mexico in 2000, and a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science (Robotics and Intelligent Machines) from the University of Essex, UK in 2001. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D degree in Computer Science at the University of Essex, UK. His research interests have focused on mobile robots, in particular, the coordination of multi-robot systems, mobile manipulators, and learning by imitation. He is a member of IEEE.John Q. Gan received a B.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from Northwestern Polytechnic University, China in 1982, a M.Eng. degree in automatic control and a Ph.D degree in biomedical electronics from Southeast University, China in 1985 and 1991, respectively. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Essex, UK. He has co-authored a book, and published over 100 research papers. His research interests are in robotics and intelligent systems, brain-computer interfaces, pattern recognition, signal processing, data fusion, and neurofuzzy computation.Huosheng Hu is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, at the University of Essex, and head of the Human Centered Robotics Group. His research interests include autonomous mobile robots, human-robot interaction, evolutionary robotics, multi-robot collaboration, embedded systems, pervasive computing, sensor integration, RoboCup, intelligent control, and networked robotics. He has published over 200 papers in journals, books, and conferences, and received two best paper awards. He is a founding member of the IEEE Society of Robotics and Automation Technical Committee of Internet and Online Robots, and a member of the IASTED Technical Committee on “Robotics” for 2001–2004. He was a Conference Chairman for the 1st European Embedded Systems Conference in Paris, 1996, and has been a member of the Program Committees for many international conferences such as IROS (2005–2006), IASTED Robotics and Applications Conferences (2000-present), and RoboCup Symposiums (2000–2004). Dr. Hu is a Chartered Engineer, a senior member of IEEE, and a member of IEE, AAAI, ACM, IASTED and IAS.Min Tan graduated from Tsing Hua University, China in 1986. He received a Ph.D. degree in 1990 from CASIA. He is a professor with the Laboratory of Complex Systems and Intelligence Science, CASIA. He has published over 100 papers in journals, books, and conferences. His research interests include robotics and complex system theory.
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文摘To solve the inverse kinematics problem for redundant degrees of freedom（DOFs）manipulators has been and still continues to be quite challenging in the field of robotics.Aiming at trajectory planning for a 7-DOF space manipulator system,joint rotation trajectories are obtained from predetermined motion trajectories and poses of the end effector in Cartesian space based on the proposed generalized inverse kinematics method.A minimum norm method is employed to choose the best trajectory among available trajectories.Numerical simulations with the7-DOF manipulator show that the proposed method can achieve the planned trajectory and pose under the circumstances of minimum angular velocities.Moreover,trajectory results from the proposed kinematics model and inverse kinematics method has the advantages of simple modelling,low computation cost,easy to solve and plan trajectory conveniently.The smooth and continuous joint rotation functions obtained from the proposed method are suitable for practical engineering applications.
文摘Wavelet network, a class of neural network consisting of wavelets, is proposed to solve the inverse kinematics problem in robotic manipulator. A wavelet network suitable for dealing with multi-input and multi-output system is constructed. The network is optimized by reducing the number of wavelets handling large dimension problem according to the sample data. The algorithms for sparseness analysis of input data and fitting wavelets to the output data with orthogonal method are introduced. Then Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm is used to train the network. Simulation results showed that this method is capable of solving the inverse kinematics problem for PUMA560.
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文摘Off line programming provides an essential link between CAD and CAM, whose development will result in greater use of robotic arc welding. An arc welding system with a robot and a rotating/tilting positioner is one of the most typical workcells. The inverse kinematics of robot and positioner is the foundation of the off line programming system. The previous researchers only focused on a special solution of the positioner inverse kinematics, which is the solution at down hand welding position. In this paper, we introduce a method for representing welding position. Then a general algorithm of rotating/tilting positioner inverse kinematics is presented, and an approach to find the unique solution of the inverse kinematics is discussed. The simulation experiment results show that the general algorithm can improve the ability of robotic arc welding off line programming system to program all types of welding positions.
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文摘An iterative method is introduced successfully to solve the inverse kinematics of a 6-DOF manipulator of a tunnel drilling rig based on dual quaternion, which is difficult to get the solution by Denavit-Hartenberg(D-H) based methods. By the intuitive expression of dual quaternion to the orientation of rigid body, the coordinate frames assigned to each joint are established all in the same orientation, which does not need to use the D-H procedure. The compact and simple form of kinematic equations, consisting of position equations and orientation equations, is also the consequence of dual quaternion calculations. The iterative process is basically of two steps which are related to solving the position equations and orientation equations correspondingly. First, assume an initial value of the iterative variable; then, the position equations can be solved because of the reduced number of unknown variables in the position equations and the orientation equations can be solved by applying the solution from the position equations, which obtains an updated value for the iterative variable; finally, repeat the procedure by using the updated iterative variable to the position equations till the prescribed accuracy is obtained. The method proposed has a clear geometric meaning, and the algorithm is simple and direct. Simulation for 100 poses of the end frame shows that the average running time of inverse kinematics calculation for each demanded pose of end-effector is 7.2 ms on an ordinary laptop, which is good enough for practical use. The iteration counts 2-4 cycles generally, which is a quick convergence. The method proposed here has been successfully used in the project of automating a hydraulic rig.
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文摘A redundant manipulator that can online clamp pipe was developed to track along a cylinder intersection curve. With an ultrasonic transducer mounted on its end-effector, the manipulator can perform welding seam inspection at pipe joint in nuclear industry. An inverse kinematics solution expressed in joint space was solved based on the combination of geometric method and D-H matrix transformation. Expression about joints variables was obtained based on the scanning parameters of pipeline. The analysis method and results can be widely applied for online trajectory planning of intersection curve scanning manipulators.
文摘A robot used for multi-pass welding of the piping branch junctions and nozzle attachments to main pressure vessels is 4-DOF serial mechanism, two mobile joints and two rotary joints are adopted in design. The kinematic model was established with DH parameters, the inverse kinematics was solved. According to the forward and inverse kinematics equations, the robot kinematics was simulated in Matlab, the simulations indicate that the solution for inverse kinematics can satisfy the welding requirements well. As there are size errors, processing errors and welding deformation, the path of welding is forecasted according to the previous welding situation, and then, the path is taught at desired via-points, which plays an important role in submerged-arc welding. The submerged-arc welding experiments indicate that the robot and the welding methods are preferable to ensure welding quality.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.71373140)the COSTIND Science Challenge Project(No.TZ2018001).
文摘Neutrons have played a vital role in many nuclear physics fields.In some cases,the inverse kinematics of neutrons colliding with other nuclei are also worth studying.In this study,the inverse kinematics of thermal neutrons colliding with high-energy protons is simulated by using the Monte Carlo method.Thermal neutrons are taken as target particles,whereas protons are incident particles.The simulation implies that,after collision,the energy of the output neutron at 0°equals the energy of the incident proton.A possible application of the result is proposed that might yield single-energy neutrons.Some key parameters of the conceptual design were evaluated,demonstrating that the design may reach high-neutron-energy resolution.
基金This work was supported by the Tianjin Scientific and Technological Development Fund of Higher Education of China （ No. 20090406 ） , Tianjin Municipal Natural Science Foundation （No. 09JCYBJC04900 ） and the Key Technologies R＆D Program of Tianjin （No. 10ZCKFGX03900）.
文摘A rail type mobile robot introduced in this paper is used to carry out automatic welding on the T, Y and K-joints in offshore platform jackets. This robotic system is composed of a mobile platform and a serial manipulator. The structure of manipulator was designed according to the mathematical modeling of single brace tubular joint ; some improvements of the robot mechanism were considered to improve the flexibility＂ of manipulator and increase the workspace. The inverse kinematics analysis was solved through two steps calculation. The collision avoidance strategy used in the K-joint automatic welding was discussed. Moreover, the simulation results were presented to demonstrate the feasibility of the robot mechanism used in tubular joint welding and the validity of the joint value calculation method.
文摘Presents a fast and effective method proposed by combining the fuzzy C means (FCM) and the fuzzy neural network for solving robot inverse kinematics, and its successful application to the robot inverse kinematics and concludes from simulation results that this new method not only has high efficiency and accuracy, but also good generalization, and it also overcomes the "dimension disaster" of fuzzy set in a fuzzy neural network fairly well.
基金Shandong Province Science and Technology Development Plan(No. 2011SJGZ02)Shandong University of Science and Technology Graduate Innovation Fund(No.YCA120355)
文摘：This paper uses a 7-degree-of-freedom （7-DOF） manipulator end-effector to research inverse kinematics solution, Three methods are used and compared, including fixing an angle method, the iteration method and the neutral network method. By comparison, the iteration method is much better because of its high accuracy, fast speed and stabilization, and it does not require calculation of the pseudoinverse of the 2acobian. Thus, this control scheme is well suited for real-time im- plementation, which is essential if the end-effector trajectory is continuously modified based on sensor＇s feedback. Finally, using VC ＋ ＋ and Microsoft foundation classes （MFC） to achieve the main machine interface. Through verification, the precision meets the requirements of general control system in real-time implementation.
文摘This paper presents some initial solutions to the problem of accuracy and repeatability of the arm position placement in applied kinematics by solving the inverse kinematics problem of a serial jointed manipulator whose forward kinematics solution was earlier presented to solve the position placement problem of a mobile manipulator for Lunar Oxygen production. The problem herein is that of identifying a combination of joint angles to effectively position the end-effecter at a specified location in space. The reverse solution as presented in this paper is predicated on DH＇s （Denavit-Hartenberg＇s） technique for robot arm position analysis. The generalized solution for the 5-degrees of freedom DOF （degree of freedom） revolute joint variables which comprises 2-1inks and a spade-like 3-DOF end-effecter was obtained by solving a set of algebraic equations emerging from series of transformation matrices. The proposed solution herein has a high degree of accuracy and repeatability for workspace reachable domains where joint combination is analytic.
文摘Proton knockout reactions are a widely used tool to study nuclear ground-state distributions. While the interpretation of traditional experiments in direct kinematics has to account for initial and final state interactions, experiments in inverse kinematics can overcome such limitations. We discuss results of an experiment at the BM@N setup at JINR using a <sup>12</sup>C beam at 48 GeV/c to study quasi-elastic scattering reactions, single proton distributions, and short-range correlated nucleon-nucleon pairs. The inverse kinematics allows for the direct measurement of the nucleon-nucleon pair center-of-mass motion and provides first experimental evidence for scale separation of such pairs. Based on these results, we will in the future study neutron-rich nuclei in inverse kinematics in the context of short-range correlations and neutron stars.
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NO.52175069).
文摘Inspired by the driving muscles of the human arm,a 4-Degree of Freedom(DOF)concentrated driving humanoid robotic arm is proposed based on a spatial double parallel four-bar mechanism.The four-bar mechanism design reduces the inertia of the elbow-driving unit and the torque by 76.65%and 57.81%,respectively.Mimicking the human pose regulation strategy that the human arm picks up a heavy object by adjusting its posture naturally without complicated control,the robotic arm features an integrated position-level closed-form inverse solution method considering both geometric and load capacity limitations.This method consists of a geometric constraint model incorporating the arm angle(φ)and the Global Configuration(GC)to avoid joint limits and singularities,and a load capacity model to constrain the feasible domain of the arm angle.Further,trajectory tracking simulations and experiments are conducted to validate the feasibility of the proposed inverse solution method.The simulated maximum output torque,maximum output power and total energy consumption of the robotic arm are reduced by up to 2.0%,13.3%,and 33.3%,respectively.The experimental results demonstrate that the robotic arm can bear heavy loads in a human-like posture,effectively reducing the maximum output torque and energy consumption of the robotic arm by 1.83%and 5.03%,respectively,while avoiding joints beyond geometric and load capacity limitations.The proposed design provides a high payload–weight ratio and an efficient pose control solution for robotic arms,which can potentially broaden the application spectrum of humanoid robots.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.61803312,91848205 and 61725303).
文摘Forward and backward reaching inverse kinematics(FABRIK)is an efficient two-stage iterative solver for inverse kinematics of spherical-joint manipulator without the calculation of Jacobian matrix.Based on FABRIK,this paper presents an incremental control scheme for a free-floating space manipulator consists of revolute joints and rigid links with the consideration of joint constraints and dynamic coupling effect.Due to the characteristics of FABRIK,it can induce large angular movements on specific joints.Apart from that,FABRIK maps three dimensional(3D)problem into two dimensional(2D)problem by a simple geometric projection.This operation can cause infinite loops in some cases.In order to overcome these issues and apply FABRIK on space manipulators,an increments allocation method is developed to constrain the angular movements as well as to re-orient the end-effector.The manipulator is re-positioned based on the momentum conservation law.Instead of pure target position tracking,the orientation control of the end-effector is also considered.Numerical simulation is performed to testify and demonstrate the effectiveness and reliability of the proposed incremental control approach.
文摘A methodology is presented whereby a neural network is used to learn the inverse kinematic relationships of the position and orientation of a six joint manipulator. The arm solution for the orientation of a manipulator using a self organizing neural net is studied in this paper. A new training model of the self organizing neural network is proposed by thoroughly studying Martinetz, Ritter and Schulten′s self organizing neural network based on Kohonen′s self organizing mapping algorithm using a Widrow Hoff type error correction rule and closely combining the characters of the inverse kinematic relationship for a robot arm. The computer simulation results for a PUMA 560 robot show that the proposed method has a significant improvement over other methods documented in the references in self organizing capability and precision by training process.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （No. 61273340） and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation （No. 2013M541721）
文摘The redundant humanoid manipulator has characteristics of multiple degrees of freedom and complex joint structure, and it is not easy to obtain its inverse kinematics solution. The inverse kinematics problem of a humanoid manipulator can be formulated as an equivalent minimization problem, and thus it can be solved using some numerical optimization methods. Biogeography-based optimization （BBO） is a new biogeography inspired optimization algorithm, and it can be adopted to solve the inverse kinematics problem of a humanoid manipulator. The standard BBO algorithm that uses traditional migration and mutation operators suffers from slow convergence and prematurity. A hybrid biogeography-based optimization （HBBO） algorithm, which is based on BBO and differential evolution （DE）, is presented. In this hybrid algorithm, new habitats in the ecosystem are produced through a hybrid migration operator, that is, the BBO migration strategy and Did/best/I/bin differential strategy, to alleviate slow convergence at the later evolution stage of the algorithm. In addition, a Gaussian mutation operator is adopted to enhance the exploration ability and improve the diversity of the population. Based on these, an 8-DOF （degree of freedom） redundant humanoid manipulator is employed as an example. The end-effector error （position and orientation） and the ＇away limitation level＇ value of the 8-DOF humanoid manipulator constitute the fitness function of HBBO. The proposed HBBO algorithm has been used to solve the inverse kinematics problem of the 8-DOF redundant humanoid manipulator. Numerical simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of this method.
基金the National Key Research and Development Program(No.2016YFC0600906)the Science and Technology Innovation Team of Colleges and Universities in Henan Province(No.20IRTSTHN019)+1 种基金the Innovative Science and Technology Talents Team Construction Project of Henan Province(No.CXTD2016054)the Science and Technology Project of Henan Province(No.172102210270)。
文摘A 6-DOF cooperative manipulator is used for human spinal deformity detection.In order to ensure the scanning quality of spinal deformity and improve the solution rate and speed of inverse motion solution of the manipulator,an inverse kinematics analytical method based on spherical geometry is proposed in this paper.We take the AUBO-i5 collaborative manipulator as the research object,which combines the rapidity of analytical solution with the flexibility of spherical solution.In the Robot Operating System,the simulation experiment solves the inverse kinematics of 10000 sets of randomly generated postures.The success rate and time-consuming of the solution are calculated.Compared with the two commonly used inverse kinematics solving algorithms,TRAC-IK and KDL,this method has obvious advantages in terms of success rate and average time-consuming.
