The design of control strategies tolerant to unidentified failures in kinematically redundant manipulators

The design of control strategies tolerant to unidentified failures in kinematically redundant manipulators Goel, M. ; Maciejewski, Anthony A. ; Balakrishnan, Venkataramanan "This work was supported in part by Sandia National Laboratories under contract no. AL-3011, the Office of Naval Research under contract no. N00014-97-1-0640, and NSF under contract no. MIP-9708309." The use of robots in hostile environments significantly increases the likelihood of failures in the robot's subsystems. Existing techniques for developing failure tolerant robots rely on effective failure detection and identification. Since failure identification is itself a difficult process that may not always be successful, it is important to consider the behavior of the robot prior to identification of a fault, or even the possibility of failures remaining unidentified. This work proposes control strategies that improve local measures of failure tolerance for kinematically redundant robots experiencing unidentified locked-joint failures. Measures to evaluate the fault tolerance capability of the various schemes are presented and the performance of the proposed schemes are demonstrated with an example. Colorado State University. Libraries 1999 text ; image application/pdf ECEaam00086.pdf FACFECEN100086ARTI eng c1999 IEEE

The design of control strategies tolerant to unidentified failures in kinematically redundant manipulators

Goel, M. ; Maciejewski, Anthony A. ; Balakrishnan, Venkataramanan

"This work was supported in part by Sandia National Laboratories under contract no. AL-3011, the Office of Naval Research under contract no. N00014-97-1-0640, and NSF under contract no. MIP-9708309."

The use of robots in hostile environments significantly increases the likelihood of failures in the robot's subsystems. Existing techniques for developing failure tolerant robots rely on effective failure detection and identification. Since failure identification is itself a difficult process that may not always be successful, it is important to consider the behavior of the robot prior to identification of a fault, or even the possibility of failures remaining unidentified. This work proposes control strategies that improve local measures of failure tolerance for kinematically redundant robots experiencing unidentified locked-joint failures. Measures to evaluate the fault tolerance capability of the various schemes are presented and the performance of the proposed schemes are demonstrated with an example.

Colorado State University. Libraries

1999

text ; image

application/pdf

ECEaam00086.pdf

FACFECEN100086ARTI

eng

c1999 IEEE