10 accepted papers
In this work, we present and explain in detail the design of a new type of pneumatic actuator made of fire hose, the fire hose actuator (FHA), see Fig. 1. We model the force output of this type of actuator and we compare the theoretic results to the data measured on the laboratory test stand.Further…
Compliant and precise rotary drive units are essential for the design of articulated robots that are capable of safe human-robot collaboration. In this paper, we present a new pneumatic rotary drive unit that combines the compliance of pneumatic systems with the ability to perform high precision pos…
In recent years, a number of publications described approaches for model-based manipulation skills and their applicability to a variety of robot tasks-be it assembly, industrial robotics in general, or service robotics. These approaches roughly follow the same pattern: They model robot task descript…
Recent intuitive robot programming approaches operate on task level, enabling programmers to intuitively arrange or compose encapsulating robot capabilities (skills). This paper presents an approach to intuitively create (sub-)skills. General guidelines for assembly process descriptions #2860 provid…
Model based open-loop and closed-loop control systems make use of the system's inertial parameters. Unfortunately, not all of these values can be determined analytically nor can they be obtained from simple measurements. Established experiments for inertial parameters estimation have been applied to…
Workspace determination for robots is an important step in analysis and synthesis. A couple of methods for computing the wrench-closure workspace of cable-driven parallel robots were reported in the literature but all methods tend to be time consuming. In this paper, a new algorithm is presented tha
Cable-driven parallel robots, hereinafter referred to as cable robots, use cables to manipulate a mobile platform with 6 DOF. Cable robots have a low moved mass, as the winches with the servo drives are fixed to the machine frame and light weight synthetic fiber cables can be used. Therefore, cable
This paper introduces the CableRobot simulator, which was developed at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA. The simulator is a completely novel approach to the design of motion simulation pl…
Most cable-driven parallel robots are kinematically over-constrained mechanisms. This results in a non-trivial computation of the forward kinematic transformation. It is well known that the forward kinematics of parallel robots may have multiple solutions and in general the convergence of numerical…
In a cable-driven parallel robot, elastic cables are used to manipulate the end effector within the workspace. Cable force measurement is necessary for several control algorithms like cable force control, contact control, or load identification. The cable force sensor can be placed directly at the c…