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Control of Elasticity and Trajectory of Robot Arm with Redundant Actuators
Toru Oshima*, Tomohiko Fujikawa** and Minayori Kumamoto***
*Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Toyama Prefectural University, Kurogawa 5180, Kosugi, Toyama, 939-0398, Japan
**Department of Electronic Control Engineering, Toyama National College of Maritime Technology, Ebie Neriya 1-2, Shinminato, Toyama, 933-0293, Japan
***Laboratories of Image Information Science and Technology, Hongo 5-26-4, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
Received:February 8, 2002Accepted:February 12, 2002Published:June 20, 2002
Keywords:robot arm, muscloskeletal system, bi-articular muscle, mono-articular muscle, elasticity, trajectory
Abstract
In mechanical joints applied to robot arms, one actuator is generally required to drive one joint. For the drive of joints on the musculoskeletal system of animal limbs, in which musculi skeleti are used as actuators, there is a pair of bi-articular muscles for driving two joints simultaneously in addition to a pair of monoarticular muscles. By our study with a simple arm model having a 2 degrees of freedom for two joints, the relationship between the compliances of antagonistic muscless at a joint (the muscle coordinate system) and the elastic ellipse at the end of arm (the task coordinate system) has been clarified in connection with the adjustment of the trajectory at the end of arm, which belongs to the task coordinate system, when the bi-articular muscles are made available and when they are made un-available for comparison. The effect of the bi-articular muscles has thus been proved. Then the fact that the trajectory of the arm can be adjusted by means of both an elastic ellipse and the force at the end of the arm has also been clarified. To verify the above, a 2 degrees of freedom robot arm has been adopted. This arm is equipped with two joints having (3-pairs, 6-muscles) pneumatic rubber artificial muscles used as actuators.
Cite this article as:T. Oshima, T. Fujikawa, and M. Kumamoto, “Control of Elasticity and Trajectory of Robot Arm with Redundant Actuators,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.14 No.3, pp. 253-261, 2002.Data files:
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