Title :
A rapidly deployable manipulator system
Author :
Paredis, Christiaan J J ; Brown, H. Benjamin ; Khosla, Pradeep K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
A rapidly deployable manipulator system combines the flexibility of reconfigurable modular hardware with modular programming tools, allowing the user to rapidly create a manipulator which is custom-tailored for a given task. This article describes two main aspects of such a system, namely, the reconfigurable modular manipulator system (RMMS) hardware and the corresponding control software
Keywords :
digital simulation; manipulators; robot programming; software engineering; control software; flexibility; modular programming tools; rapidly deployable manipulator system; reconfigurable modular hardware; Assembly systems; Control systems; Hardware; Manipulators; Real time systems; Robot programming; Robot sensing systems; Software performance; Software systems; Space stations;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Automation, 1996. Proceedings., 1996 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Minneapolis, MN
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2988-0
DOI :
10.1109/ROBOT.1996.506907
