Title :
Reactionless robots: novels designs and concept studies
Author :
Agrawal, Sunil K. ; Fattah, Abbas
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., Delaware Univ., Newark, DE, USA
Abstract :
For conventional robots, manipulator motions result in forces and moments on the base to cause undesirable base excitations. The objective of this paper is to systematically analyze the fundamentals of reactionless robots. Based on this analysis, design of two distinct classes of planar robots is proposed. Due to the underlying principle of conservation of angular momentum for these robots, the trajectory planning must satisfy additional constraints, illustrated through computer simulations. Currently, we are fabricating reactionless robots to illustrate the underlying concepts.
Keywords :
angular momentum; manipulator dynamics; path planning; position control; angular conservation momentum; computer simulations; dynamics; manipulator motions; necessary conditions; planar robots; reactionless robots; sufficient conditions; trajectory planning; Computer simulation; Couplings; Equations; Gravity; Laboratories; Manipulators; Mechanical engineering; Mechanical systems; Robots; Trajectory;
Conference_Titel :
Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, 2002. ICARCV 2002. 7th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
981-04-8364-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICARCV.2002.1238526
