Optimal Image-Based Guidance of Mobile Manipulators using Direct Visual Servoing
Department of Physics, Systems Engineering and Signal Theory, University of Alicante, Alicante 03690, Spain
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Electronics 2019, 8(4), 374; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8040374
Received: 20 February 2019
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Revised: 18 March 2019
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Accepted: 23 March 2019
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Published: 27 March 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Visual Servoing in Robotics)
This paper presents a direct image-based controller to perform the guidance of a mobile manipulator using image-based control. An eye-in-hand camera is employed to perform the guidance of a mobile differential platform with a seven degrees-of-freedom robot arm. The presented approach is based on an optimal control framework and it is employed to control mobile manipulators during the tracking of image trajectories taking into account robot dynamics. The direct approach allows us to take both the manipulator and base dynamics into account. The proposed image-based controllers consider the optimization of the motor signals sent to the mobile manipulator during the tracking of image trajectories by minimizing the control force and torque. As the results show, the proposed direct visual servoing system uses the eye-in-hand camera images for concurrently controlling both the base platform and robot arm. The use of the optimal framework allows us to derive different visual controllers with different dynamical behaviors during the tracking of image trajectories.
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Keywords:
visual servoing; optimal control; mobile manipulator; dynamic control
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Belmonte, Á.; Ramón, J.L.; Pomares, J.; Garcia, G.J.; Jara, C.A. Optimal Image-Based Guidance of Mobile Manipulators using Direct Visual Servoing. Electronics 2019, 8, 374. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8040374
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Belmonte Á, Ramón JL, Pomares J, Garcia GJ, Jara CA. Optimal Image-Based Guidance of Mobile Manipulators using Direct Visual Servoing. Electronics. 2019; 8(4):374. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8040374
Chicago/Turabian StyleBelmonte, Álvaro, José L. Ramón, Jorge Pomares, Gabriel J. Garcia, and Carlos A. Jara. 2019. "Optimal Image-Based Guidance of Mobile Manipulators using Direct Visual Servoing" Electronics 8, no. 4: 374. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8040374
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