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Research and development at ORNL/CESAR towards cooperating robotic systems for hazardous environments
One of the frontiers in intelligent machine research is the understanding of how constructive cooperation among multiple autonomous agents can be effected. The effort at the Center for Engineering Systems Advanced Research (CESAR) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) focuses on two problem areas: (1) cooperation by multiple mobile robots in dynamic, incompletely known environments; and (2) cooperating robotic manipulators. Particular emphasis is placed on experimental evaluation of research and developments using the CESAR robot system testbeds, including three mobile robots, and a seven-axis, kinematically redundant mobile manipulator. This paper summarizes initial results of research addressing the decoupling of position and force control for two manipulators holding a common object, and the path planning for multiple robots in a common workspace
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This dissertation presents an approach based on parametric dynamic movement primitives (PDMP) as a motion representation algorithm which is one of relevant LfD techniques. Unlike existing motion representation algorithms, this work not only represents a prescribed motion but also computes the new behavior through a generalization of multiple demonstrations in the actual environment. The generalization process uses Gaussian process regression (GPR) by representing the nonlinear relationship between the PDMP parameters that determine motion and the corresponding environmental variables. The proposed algorithm shows that it serves as a powerful optimal and real-time motion planner among the existing planning algorithms when optimal demonstrations are provided as dataset.
In this dissertation, the safety of motion is also considered. Here, safety refers to keeping the system away from certain configurations that are unsafe. The safety criterion of the PDMP internal parameters are computed to check the safety. This safety criterion reflects the new behavior computed through the generalization process, as well as the individual motion safety of the demonstration set. The demonstrations causing unsafe movement are identified and removed. Also, the demolished demonstrations are replaced by proven demonstrations upon this criterion.
This work also presents an extension approach reducing the number of required demonstrations for the PDMP framework. This approach is effective where a single mission consists of multiple sub-tasks and requires numerous demonstrations in generalizing them. The whole trajectories in provided demonstrations are segmented into multiple sub-tasks representing unit motions. Then, multiple PDMPs are formed independently for correlated-segments. The phase-decision process determines which sub-task and associated PDMPs to be executed online, allowing multiple PDMPs to be autonomously configured within an integrated framework. GPR formulations are applied to obtain execution time and regional goal configuration for each sub-task.
Finally, the proposed approach and its extension are validated with the actual experiments of mobile manipulators. The first two scenarios regarding cooperative aerial transportation demonstrate the excellence of the proposed technique in terms of quick computation, generation of efficient movement, and safety assurance. The last scenario deals with two mobile manipulations using ground vehicles and shows the effectiveness of the proposed extension in executing complex missions.μμ° νμ΅ κΈ°λ²(Learning from demonstrations, LfD)μ λ‘λ΄μ΄ νΉμ λμμ μνν μ μλλ‘ νλ μ λ§ν λμ μμ± κΈ°λ²μ΄λ€. λ‘λ΄ μ‘°μκΈ°κ° μΈκ° μ¬νμμ λ€μν μ
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1.1 Motivations 1
1.2 Literature Survey 3
1.2.1 Conventional Motion Planning in Mobile Manipulations 3
1.2.2 Motion Representation Algorithms 5
1.2.3 Safety-guaranteed Motion Representation Algorithms 7
1.3 Research Objectives and Contributions 7
1.3.1 Motion Generalization in Motion Representation Algorithm 9
1.3.2 Motion Generalization with Safety Guarantee 9
1.3.3 Motion Generalization for Complex Missions 10
1.4 Thesis Organization 11
2 Background 12
2.1 DMPs 12
2.2 Mobile Manipulation Systems 13
2.2.1 Single Mobile Manipulation 14
2.2.2 Cooperative Mobile Manipulations 14
2.3 Experimental Setup 17
2.3.1 Test-beds for Aerial Manipulators 17
2.3.2 Test-beds for Robot Manipulators with Ground Vehicles 17
3 Motion Generalization in Motion Representation Algorithm 22
3.1 Parametric Dynamic Movement Primitives 22
3.2 Generalization Process in PDMPs 26
3.2.1 Environmental Parameters 26
3.2.2 Mapping Function 26
3.3 Simulation Results 29
3.3.1 Two-dimensional Hurdling Motion 29
3.3.2 Cooperative Aerial Transportation 30
4 Motion Generalization with Safety Guarantee 36
4.1 Safety Criterion in Style Parameter 36
4.2 Demonstration Management 39
4.3 Simulation Validation 42
4.3.1 Two-dimensional Hurdling Motion 46
4.3.2 Cooperative Aerial Transportation 47
5 Motion Generalization for Complex Missions 51
5.1 Overall Structure of Seg-PDMPs 51
5.2 Motion Segments 53
5.3 Phase-decision Process 54
5.4 Seg-PDMPs for Single Phase 54
5.5 Simulation Results 55
5.5.1 Initial/terminal Offsets 56
5.5.2 Style Generalization 59
5.5.3 Recombination 61
6 Experimental Validation and Results 63
6.1 Cooperative Aerial Transportation 63
6.2 Cooperative Mobile Hang-dry Mission 70
6.2.1 Demonstrations 70
6.2.2 Simulation Validation 72
6.2.3 Experimental Results 78
7 Conclusions 82
Abstract (in Korean) 93Docto
Coordinated task manipulation by nonholonomic mobile robots
Coordinated task manipulation by a group of autonomous mobile robots has received signicant research effort in the last decade. Previous studies in the area revealed that one of the main problems in the area is to avoid the collisions of the robots with obstacles as well as with other members of the group. Another problem is to come up with a model for successful task manipulation. Signicant research effort has accumulated on the denition of forces to generate reference trajectories for each autonomous mobile robots engaged in coordinated behavior. If the mobile robots are nonholonomic, this approach fails to guarantee successful manipulation of the task since the so-generated reference trajectories might not satisfy the nonholonomic constraint. In this work, we introduce a novel coordinated task manipulation model inclusive of an online collision avoidance algorithm. The reference trajectory for each autonomous nonholonomic mobile robot is generated online in terms of linear and angular velocity references for the robot; hence these references automatically satisfy the nonholonomic constraint. The generated reference velocities inevitably depend on the nature of the specied coordinated task. Several coordinated task examples, on the basis of a generic task, have been presented and the proposed model is veried through simulations
A Novel Graph-based Motion Planner of Multi-Mobile Robot Systems with Formation and Obstacle Constraints
Multi-mobile robot systems show great advantages over one single robot in
many applications. However, the robots are required to form desired
task-specified formations, making feasible motions decrease significantly.
Thus, it is challenging to determine whether the robots can pass through an
obstructed environment under formation constraints, especially in an
obstacle-rich environment. Furthermore, is there an optimal path for the
robots? To deal with the two problems, a novel graphbased motion planner is
proposed in this paper. A mapping between workspace and configuration space of
multi-mobile robot systems is first built, where valid configurations can be
acquired to satisfy both formation constraints and collision avoidance. Then,
an undirected graph is generated by verifying connectivity between valid
configurations. The breadth-first search method is employed to answer the
question of whether there is a feasible path on the graph. Finally, an optimal
path will be planned on the updated graph, considering the cost of path length
and formation preference. Simulation results show that the planner can be
applied to get optimal motions of robots under formation constraints in
obstacle-rich environments. Additionally, different constraints are considered
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