Geometric Model of a Narrow Tilting CAR using Robotics formalism

International audienceThe use of an Electrical narrow tilting car instead of a large gasoline car should dramatically decrease traffic congestion, pollution and parking problem. The aim of this paper is to give a unique presentation of the geometric modeling issue of a new narrow tilting car. The modeling is based on the modified Denavit Hartenberg geometric description, which is commonly used in Robotics. Also, we describe the special Kinematic of the vehicle and give a method to analyze the tilting mechanism of it. Primarily experimental results on the validation of the geometrical model of a real tilting car are given

Modelling and Simulation of a Two wheeled vehicle with suspensions by using Robotic Formalism

International audienceModels, simulators and control strategies are required tools for the conception of secure and comfortable vehicles. The aim of this paper is to present an efficient way to develop models for dynamic vehicle, focusing on a two wheeled vehicles whose body involves six degrees of freedom. The resulting model is sufficiently generic to perform simulation of realistic cornering and accelerating behavior in various situations. It may be used in the context of motorcycle modeling, but also in various situations (e.g. for control application) as simplified model for 3 or 4 wheeled (tilting) cars. The approach is based on considering the vehicle as a multi-body poly-articulated system and the modeling is carried out using the robotics formalism based on the modified Denavit-Hartenberg geometric description. In that way, the dynamic model is easy to implement and the system can be used for control applications

Modelling and Simulation of a Two wheeled vehicle with suspensions by using Robotic Formalism

International audienceModels, simulators and control strategies are required tools for the conception of secure and comfortable vehicles. The aim of this paper is to present an efficient way to develop models for dynamic vehicle, focusing on a two wheeled vehicles whose body involves six degrees of freedom. The resulting model is sufficiently generic to perform simulation of realistic cornering and accelerating behavior in various situations. It may be used in the context of motorcycle modeling, but also in various situations (e.g. for control application) as simplified model for 3 or 4 wheeled (tilting) cars. The approach is based on considering the vehicle as a multi-body poly-articulated system and the modeling is carried out using the robotics formalism based on the modified Denavit-Hartenberg geometric description. In that way, the dynamic model is easy to implement and the system can be used for control applications

New Method for Global Identification of the Joint Drive Gains of Robots using a Known Inertial Payload

International audienceOff-line robot dynamic identification methods are mostly based on the use of the Inverse Dynamic Identification Model (IDIM), which calculates the joint force/torque that is linear in relation to the dynamic parameters, and on the use of linear least squares technique to calculate the parameters (IDIM-LS technique). The joint forces/torques are calculated as the product of the known control signal (the current reference) by the joint drive gains. Then it is essential to get accurate values of joint drive gains to get accurate identification of inertial parameters. In this paper it is proposed a new method for the identification of the total joint drive gains in one step, using available joint sampled data given by the standard controller of the moving robot and using CAD or measured values of the inertial parameters of a known payload. A new inverse dynamic model calculates the current reference signal of each joint j that is linear in relation to the dynamic parameters of the robot, to the inertial parameters of a known payload fixed to the end-effector, and to the inverse of the joint j drive gain. This model is calculated with current reference and position sampled data while the robot is tracking one reference trajectory without load on the robot and one trajectory with the known payload fixed on the robot. Each joint j drive gain is calculated independently by the weighted LS solution of an over-determined linear systems obtained with the equations of the joint j. The method is experimentally validated on an industrial Stäubli RX-90 robot

Finding grasping configurations of a dexterous hand and an industrial robot

Given an industrial robot equipped with a dexterous hand and an object to be grasped with four grasping points determined on its faces, this paper deals with the problem of finding the joint configurations that allow to grasp that object. The proposed solution is based on an iterative optimization method that consecutively moves the joint that best contributes to reduce the distance of the fingertips to the desired locations. The method is particularized for a Stäubli RX90 robot and a dexterous hand MA-I with four fingers developed at the IOC’s Robotics Lab

SICOMAT : a system for SImulation and COntrol analysis of MAchine Tools

International audienceThis paper presents a software package for the simulation and the control analysis of machine tool axes. This package which is called SICOMAT (SImulation and COntrol analysis of MAchine Tools), provides a large variety of toolboxes to analyze the behavior and the control of the machine. The software takes into account several elements such as the flexibility of bodies, the interaction between several axes, the effect of numerical control and the availability to reduce models