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Force-Controlled Assembly of two Objects with a Two-arm Robot

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

Pierre Dauchez  and
Xavier Delebarre
Pierre Dauchez
Affiliation:
LAMM, Université Montpellier II: Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, URA CNRS D03710, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5 (France).
Xavier Delebarre
Affiliation:
Dassault Aviation, 78 Quai Dassault, 92214 Saint Cloud (France).
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Summary

The use of a two-arm robot for assembling two objects, with each being held by one arm, is presented. The assembly task is decomposed into an approach phase and an assembly phase. For each phase, we propose a solution for describing the task. For the approach phase, we suggest to describe the task with respect to a mobile reference frame, attached to the end effector of one of the arms. This allows us to take advantage of the redundancy of the system. For the assembly phase, we propose two solutions, both involving some kind of force control. The first one is based upon a position control similar to the one used for the approach phase, with an updating of the reference position through a measurement of the contact forces. The second scheme is derived from a symmetrical hybrid control scheme initially proposed by Uchiyama and Dauchez to control a two-arm robot handling a single rigid object. The main results of this scheme are summarized, and the way of using it for an assembly task is presented. Finally, the experimental setup we have installed to validate our theoretical results is described.

Keywords

AssemblyTwo-arm robotTwo objectsForce control.
Type
Article
Information
Robotica , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , July 1991 , pp. 299 - 306
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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