A design and bio-inspired control of a novel redundant manipulator with M-DOFs links

Hak Yi, Reza Langari

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Abstract

In constrained workspaces, a serial manipulator with fixed length links has restricted motion for performing the required tasks. To overcome this, we suggest a novel redundant manipulator with multiple 3-degree of freedoms links capable of elongating by a maximum 25% of their nominal lengths. The joint limit avoidance approach is used as the redundancy resolution scheme. A bio-inspired closed-loop inverse kinematic algorithm based on brain limbic system is proposed to remove tracking errors. The results of the proposed method show that the proposed manipulator has a relatively efficient reachable workspace in constrained environments, compared to a serpentine 6-DOFs robotic manipulator of the same length links.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)422-430
Number of pages9
JournalInternational Journal of Robotics and Automation
Volume27
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012

Keywords

  • Biologically-inspired control
  • Joint limit avoidance
  • Learning and adaptive systems
  • Redundant manipulator

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