A new fault-tolerant redundancy resolution scheme is presented that allows a single six DOF (degree of freedom) command to be distributed over a small ROVM (remotely operated underwater vehicle-manipulator) system. ROVM systems are composed of a ROV (remotely operated underwater vehicle) and serial manipulator. The combined system is often kinematically redundant for the six-DOF end-effector command, and such a ROVM system admits an infinite number of joint-space solutions for a commanded end-effector state. In the current work, the primary objective is to follow the desired end-effector velocities commanded by a human pilot. The primary objective is realized using the right Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse solution that minimizes the two-norm of the collective joint velocities. Secondary objectives considered are: avoiding manipulator joint limits, avoiding singularities and high joint velocities, keeping the end-effector in sight of the on-board camera, minimizing the ROV motion, and minimizing the drag-forces on the ROV. Each criterion is defined within the framework of the gpm (gradient projection method). The hierarchy for the secondary tasks is established by a low-level artificial pilot that determines a weighting factor for each criterion based on if-then-type fuzzy rules that reflect an expert human pilot's knowledge. The resulting weight schedule yields a self-motion (null-space motion) that emulates how a skilled operator would utilize the redundancy of the ROVM to achieve the secondary objectives. In addition, the proposed method has a fault-tolerant property that enforces joint-velocity limits and also redistributes the end-effector velocity command in the case of faulty joints. To demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed scheme, a numerical simulation case study is performed. The results illustrate that complex spatial end-effector manoeuvres that are otherwise not possible with a stationary ROV can be accomplished in real-time via the coordination of the ROV and the manipulator. The on-line nature of the proposed scheme makes it suitable for remote systems where the desired end-effector state is not known a priori.


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    Title :

    Redundancy resolution for underwater mobile manipulators


    Additional title:

    Redundanzauflösung für mobile Unterwassermanipulatoren


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    Published in:

    Ocean Engineering ; 37 , 2-3 ; 325-343


    Publication date :

    2010


    Size :

    19 Seiten, 25 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English







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