Kinematics of the MIT-AI-VICARM Manipulator

This report describes research done at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Support for the laboratory's artificial intelligence research is provided in part by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense under Office of Naval Research contract N00014-70-A-0362-0005.This paper describes the basic geometry of the electric manipulator designed for the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Victor Scheinman while on leave from Stanford University. The procedure for finding a set of joint angles that will place the terminal device in a desired position and orientation is developed in detail. This is on of the basic primitives that an arm controller should have. The orientation is specified in terms of Euler-angles. Typically eight sets of joint angles will produce the same terminal device position and orientation.MIT Artificial Intelligence Laborator

Acquisition of Visually Guided Swing Motion Based on Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks in Two-Armed Bipedal Robot

Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE lntemational Conference on Robotics and Automation Albuquerque, New Mexico - April 199

Panoramic-Environmental Description as Robots\u27 Visual Short-Term Memory

Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Leuven, Belgium, May 199

Design and Development of a Legged Robot Research Platform JROB-1

Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation, Leuven, Belgium, May 199

Force Feedback in Precise Assembly Tasks

This paper describes the execution of precise assembly tasks by a robot. The level of performance of the experimental system allows such basic actions as putting a peg into a hole, screwing a nut on a bolt, and picking up a thin piece from a flat table. The tolerance achieved in experiments was 0.001 inch. The experiments proved that force feedback enabled a reliable assembly of a bearing complex consisting of eight parts with close tolerances. A movie of the demonstration is available