Toward safe and high-performance human-robot collaboration via implementation of redundancy and understanding the effects of admittance term parameters

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-15-2022

Abstract

Today, demandsin industrial manufacturing mandate humans to work with large-scale industrial robots, and this collaboration may result in dangerous conditions for humans. To deal with this situation, this work proposes a novel approach for redundant large-scale industrial robots. In the proposed approach, an admittance controller is designed to regulate the interaction between the end effector of the robot and the human. Additionally, an obstacle avoidance algorithm is implemented in the null space of the robot to prevent any possible unexpected collision between the human and the links of the robot. After safety performance of this approach is verified via simulations and experimental studies, the effect of the parameters of the admittance controller on the performance of collaboration in terms of both accuracy and total human effort is investigated. This investigation is carried out via 8 experiments by the participation of 10 test subjects in which the effect of different admittance controller parameters such as mass and damper are compared. As a result of this investigation, tuning insights for such parameters are revealed.

Identifier

85119673140 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Robotica

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263574721001569

e-ISSN

14698668

ISSN

02635747

First Page

2112

Last Page

2127

Issue

7

Volume

40

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