Download or read book Image based Visual Servoing with Hybrid Camera Configuration for Robust Robotic Grasping written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A challenging anthropomorphic characteristic which a robotic manipulator should acquire is vision. When first introduced to manufacturing and material-handling industries, robots were taught to move "blindly" in a structured environment where the position and the orientation of the manipulated object were assumed to be known. Since then, a spectrum of visual servoing techniques has been developed to increase the versatility and accuracy of the robotic manipulators for carrying out tasks in less structured environments. In particular, the concept of continuous motion control of robotic systems using a visual feedback loop has been applied recently to unstructured environments. In the work presented in this thesis, a functioning mobile manipulator platform, named Autonomous Intelligent Mobile Manipulator (AIMM) with a hybrid camera configuration has been developed. This platform is a member of the cooperative heterogeneous mobile robotic team at the Industrial Automation Laboratory (IAL) of the University of British Columbia (UBC). Given the increasing threat of terrorism and natural disasters around the world, the encompassing research explores new robotic solutions for search and rescue applications. Specifically, the LkL robotics subgroup develops robotic capabilities that can assist or even replace human rescuers in situations that involve life threatening risks. The main contribution of the work in this thesis can be summarized by its two aspects: hardware and control scheme. The developed mobile manipulator consists of a light-weight yet capable manipulator, a mobile robotic base, and a hybrid camera configuration using both a monocular camera and a stereo camera. The classical image-based visual servoing scheme has been improved by techniques of depth estimation and neural network-based grasping. In the present work, both the platform and the control scheme have been tested in real-life scenarios where multiple robots complete a complex task of object handling.
Download or read book Visual Servoing in Robotics written by Jorge Pomares and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual servoing is a well-known approach to guide robots using visual information. Image processing, robotics, and control theory are combined in order to control the motion of a robot depending on the visual information extracted from the images captured by one or several cameras. With respect to vision issues, a number of issues are currently being addressed by ongoing research, such as the use of different types of image features (or different types of cameras such as RGBD cameras), image processing at high velocity, and convergence properties. As shown in this book, the use of new control schemes allows the system to behave more robustly, efficiently, or compliantly, with fewer delays. Related issues such as optimal and robust approaches, direct control, path tracking, or sensor fusion are also addressed. Additionally, we can currently find visual servoing systems being applied in a number of different domains. This book considers various aspects of visual servoing systems, such as the design of new strategies for their application to parallel robots, mobile manipulators, teleoperation, and the application of this type of control system in new areas.
Download or read book Visual Servoing For Robotic Positioning And Tracking Systems written by Yimin Zhao and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Visual Perception and Robotic Manipulation written by Geoffrey Taylor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-08-18 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book moves toward the realization of domestic robots by presenting an integrated view of computer vision and robotics, covering fundamental topics including optimal sensor design, visual servo-ing, 3D object modelling and recognition, and multi-cue tracking, emphasizing robustness throughout. Covering theory and implementation, experimental results and comprehensive multimedia support including video clips, VRML data, C++ code and lecture slides, this book is a practical reference for roboticists and a valuable teaching resource.
Download or read book Intelligent Robotics and Applications written by Honghai Liu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-19 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three volume set LNAI 9244, 9245, and 9246 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2015, held in Portsmouth, UK, in August 2015. The 46 papers included in the third volume are organized in topical sections on mobile robots and intelligent autonomous systems; intelligent system and cybernetics; robot mechanism and design; robotic vision; recognition and reconstruction; and active control in tunneling boring machine.
Download or read book Real Time Stereo Visual Servoing of a 6 DOF Robot for Tracking and Grasping Moving Objects written by Abolfazl Mohebbi and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Application of Intelligent Systems in Multi modal Information Analytics written by Vijayan Sugumaran and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Intelligent Systems Applications in Multi-modal Information Analytics, held in Changzhou, China, on June 18–19, 2020. It provides comprehensive coverage of the latest advances and trends in information technology, science and engineering. It addresses a number of broad themes, including data mining, multi-modal informatics, agent-based and multi-agent systems for health and education informatics, which inspire the development of intelligent information technologies. The contributions cover a wide range of topics such as AI applications and innovations in health and education informatics; data and knowledge management; multi-modal application management; and web/social media mining for multi-modal informatics. Outlining promising future research directions, the book is a valuable resource for students, researchers and professionals, and a useful reference guide for newcomers to the field.
Download or read book A Visual Servoing Approach to Human Robot Interactive Object Transfer written by Ying Wang and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking human factors into account, a visual servoing approach aims to facilitate robots with real-time situational information to accomplish tasks in direct and proximate collaboration with people. A hybrid visual servoing algorithm, a combination of the classical position-based and image-based visual servoing, is applied to the whole task space. A model-based tracker monitors the human activities, via matching the human skeleton representation and the image of people in image. Grasping algorithms are implemented to compute grasp points based on the geometrical model of the robot gripper. Whilst major challenges of human-robot interactive object transfer are visual occlusions and making grasping plans, this work proposes a new method of visually guiding a robot with the presence of partial visual occlusion, and elaborate the solution to adaptive robotic grasping.
Download or read book Modelling and Control of Robot Manipulators written by Lorenzo Sciavicco and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fundamental and technological topics are blended uniquely and developed clearly in nine chapters with a gradually increasing level of complexity. A wide variety of relevant problems is raised throughout, and the proper tools to find engineering-oriented solutions are introduced and explained, step by step. Fundamental coverage includes: Kinematics; Statics and dynamics of manipulators; Trajectory planning and motion control in free space. Technological aspects include: Actuators; Sensors; Hardware/software control architectures; Industrial robot-control algorithms. Furthermore, established research results involving description of end-effector orientation, closed kinematic chains, kinematic redundancy and singularities, dynamic parameter identification, robust and adaptive control and force/motion control are provided. To provide readers with a homogeneous background, three appendices are included on: Linear algebra; Rigid-body mechanics; Feedback control. To acquire practical skill, more than 50 examples and case studies are carefully worked out and interwoven through the text, with frequent resort to simulation. In addition, more than 80 end-of-chapter exercises are proposed, and the book is accompanied by a solutions manual containing the MATLAB code for computer problems; this is available from the publisher free of charge to those adopting this work as a textbook for courses.
Download or read book Aerial Manipulation written by Matko Orsag and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is a thorough treatment of the rapidly growing area of aerial manipulation. It details all the design steps required for the modeling and control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) equipped with robotic manipulators. Starting with the physical basics of rigid-body kinematics, the book gives an in-depth presentation of local and global coordinates, together with the representation of orientation and motion in fixed- and moving-coordinate systems. Coverage of the kinematics and dynamics of unmanned aerial vehicles is developed in a succession of popular UAV configurations for multirotor systems. Such an arrangement, supported by frequent examples and end-of-chapter exercises, leads the reader from simple to more complex UAV configurations. Propulsion-system aerodynamics, essential in UAV design, is analyzed through blade-element and momentum theories, analysis which is followed by a description of drag and ground-aerodynamic effects. The central part of the book is dedicated to aerial-manipulator kinematics, dynamics, and control. Based on foundations laid in the opening chapters, this portion of the book is a structured presentation of Newton–Euler dynamic modeling that results in forward and backward equations in both fixed- and moving-coordinate systems. The Lagrange–Euler approach is applied to expand the model further, providing formalisms to model the variable moment of inertia later used to analyze the dynamics of aerial manipulators in contact with the environment. Using knowledge from sensor data, insights are presented into the ways in which linear, robust, and adaptive control techniques can be applied in aerial manipulation so as to tackle the real-world problems faced by scholars and engineers in the design and implementation of aerial robotics systems. The book is completed by path and trajectory planning with vision-based examples for tracking and manipulation.
Download or read book Advances in Physical Agents written by Raquel Fuentetaja Pizán and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book reports on cutting-edge theories and methods aimed at the control and coordination of agents acting and moving in a dynamic environment. It covers a wide range of systems, including multiagent systems, domotic agents, robotic manipulators, soccer robots, autonomous and semiautonomous robots, as well as systems for industrial applications. Advances in software agents, sensors, computer visions and other related areas are also thoroughly discussed and presented in detail. Based on the 19th edition of the International Workshop of Physical Agents (WAF 2018), held on November 22-23, 2018, in Madrid, Spain, this book offers a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in the field of physical agents, with a special emphasis on autonomous systems such as mobile robots, industrial process or other complex systems.
Download or read book Visual Servoing written by Koichi Hashimoto and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1993 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book treats visual feedback control of mechanical systems, mostly robot manipulators. It not only deals with image processing techniques and robot control schemes but also covers the latest investigation of the design of the visual servo mechanism based on modern linear and nonlinear control theory, the adaptive control scheme, fuzzy logic, and neural networks. New concepts for utilizing visual sensory information for real-time manipulator control are derived and the performances are evaluated through simulations and/or experiments.The contributors to this book are robotics specialists from all over the world. The book gives a practical perspective on visual servoing to researchers, engineers, and students working in this area.
Download or read book Visual Servoing via Advanced Numerical Methods written by Graziano Chesi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robots able to imitate human beings have been at the core of stories of science?ctionaswellasdreamsofinventorsforalongtime.Amongthe various skills that Mother Nature has provided us with and that often go forgotten, the ability of sight is certainly one of the most important. Perhaps inspired by tales of Isaac Asimov, comics and cartoons, and surely helped by the progress of electronics in recent decades, researchers have progressively made the dream of creating robots able to move and operate by exploiting arti?cial vision a concrete reality. Technically speaking, we would say that these robots position themselves and their end-e?ectors by using the view provided by some arti?cial eyes as feedback information. Indeed, the arti?cial eyes are visual sensors such as cameras that have the function to acquire an image of the environment. Such an image describes if and how the robot is moving toward the goal and hence constitutes feedback information. This procedure is known in robotics with the term visual servoing, and it is nothing else than an imitation of the intrinsic mechanism that allows human beings to realize daily tasks such as reaching the door of the house or grasping a cup of co?ee.
Download or read book Visual Servoing in Robotics written by Jorge Pomares and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual servoing is a well-known approach to guide robots using visual information. Image processing, robotics, and control theory are combined in order to control the motion of a robot depending on the visual information extracted from the images captured by one or several cameras. With respect to vision issues, a number of issues are currently being addressed by ongoing research, such as the use of different types of image features (or different types of cameras such as RGBD cameras), image processing at high velocity, and convergence properties. As shown in this book, the use of new control schemes allows the system to behave more robustly, efficiently, or compliantly, with fewer delays. Related issues such as optimal and robust approaches, direct control, path tracking, or sensor fusion are also addressed. Additionally, we can currently find visual servoing systems being applied in a number of different domains. This book considers various aspects of visual servoing systems, such as the design of new strategies for their application to parallel robots, mobile manipulators, teleoperation, and the application of this type of control system in new areas.
Download or read book Robust Vision for Vision based Control of Motion written by Markus Vincze and published by SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Robust Vision for Vision-Based Control of Motion is a valuable tool for learning current approaches to robust vision-based control of motion. Learn from the experts how to speed up your project development and broaden your technical expertise for future collaborative efforts in your industry."--Jacket.
Download or read book Embedded Visual System and Its Applications on Robots written by De Xu and published by Bentham Science Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Embedded vision systems such as smart cameras have been rapidly developed recently. Vision systems have become smaller and lighter, but their performance has improved. The algorithms in embedded vision systems have their specifications limited by frequency of CPU, memory size, and architecture. The goal of this e-book is to provide a an advanced reference work for engineers, researchers and scholars in the field of robotics, machine vision, and automation and to facilitate the exchange of their ideas, experiences and views on embedded vision system models. The effectiveness for all methods is emphasized in a practical sense for systems presented in this e-book.
Download or read book Visual Servoing in Robotic Manufacturing Systems for Accurate Positioning written by Zheng Li and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
