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Optimal Workpiece Placement Based on Robot Reach, Manipulability and Joint Torques

PUBLICATION DATE: 7 July, 2023 PUBLICATION AUTHOR/S: Balci, B, Donovan, J, Roberts, J, Corke, P

Workpiece placement with respect to an industrial robot plays an important role in robotic manufacturing due to its influence on the configuration-dependent properties of industrial robots. Suboptimal placements of the workpiece may increase the required joint torques and decrease the dexterity of the robot. The focus of this work is to identify an optimal workpiece pose that enables a robot to carry out surface finishing with configurations that require the lowest possible joint torques while having maximum possible manipulability. We present a non-linear optimization-based algorithm to solve this problem and demonstrate the algorithm’s capability on different workpieces which we share to facilitate further research in this area.

 

Balci, B., Donovan, J., Roberts, J., & Corke, P. (2023, May 29). Optimal Workpiece Placement Based on Robot Reach, Manipulability and Joint Torques. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 12302–12308. Presented at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, United Kingdom. doi:10.1109/icra48891.2023.10161031

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