期刊名称:International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
印刷版ISSN:1729-8806
电子版ISSN:1729-8814
出版年度:2015
卷号:12
DOI:10.5772/60128
语种:English
出版社:SAGE Publications
摘要:Previous research dealing with constrained kinematic redundancy problems focuses on manipulators with time-independent constraints. This paper extends the general-weighted least-norm (GWLN) method to manipulators with time-dependent constraints by introducing time-dependent virtual joints. In the virtual joint space, corresponding task space velocity is revised to encapsulate the effects of time-dependent parameters of constraints. This is done so that an intermediate kinematic control problem with only joint limit is obtained. Then, the inverse kinematic problem is solved in the virtual joint space. A new inverse-weighted matrix setting criterion is proposed to replace the one-step prediction that originally complicated implementation of the GWLN method. To demonstrate the efficacy of the method, simulations and experiments are carried out on a five-link welding manipulator to track the welding trajectory. Time-dependent orientation constraint and preventing joint limits is guaranteed using this method.