著者

柏崎 耕志 米澤 直晃 小菅 一弘 菅原 雄介 平田 泰久 遠藤 央 神林 隆 篠塚 博之 鈴木 公基 小野 右季

出版者

The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers

雑誌

計測自動制御学会論文集 (ISSN:04534654)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.48, no.7, pp.389-398, 2012 (Released:2012-08-16)

参考文献数

18

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The authors proposed a car transportation system, iCART (intelligent Cooperative Autonomous Robot Transporters), for automation of mechanical parking systems by two mobile robots. However, it was difficult to downsize the mobile robot because the length of it requires at least the wheelbase of a car. This paper proposes a new car transportation system, iCART II (iCART - type II), based on “a-robot-for-a-wheel” concept. A prototype system, MRWheel (a Mobile Robot for a Wheel), is designed and downsized less than half the conventional robot. First, a method for lifting up a wheel by MRWheel is described. In general, it is very difficult for mobile robots such as MRWheel to move to desired positions without motion errors caused by slipping, etc. Therefore, we propose a follower's motion error estimation algorithm based on the internal force applied to each follower by extending a conventional leader-follower type decentralized control algorithm for cooperative object transportation. The proposed algorithm enables followers to estimate their motion errors and enables the robots to transport a car to a desired position. In addition, we analyze and prove the stability and convergence of the resultant system with the proposed algorithm. In order to extract only the internal force from the force applied to each robot, we also propose a model-based external force compensation method. Finally, proposed methods are applied to the car transportation system, the experimental results confirm their validity.

著者

山口 博明 野木 滉一郎 米澤 直晃 冨岡 明弘

出版者

公益社団法人 計測自動制御学会

雑誌

計測自動制御学会論文集 (ISSN:04534654)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.54, no.6, pp.574-587, 2018 (Released:2018-06-20)

参考文献数

28

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This paper presents a novel dynamical path following feedback control method for a snake-like robot. The snake-like robot is an undulatory locomotor transforming its periodic changes in shape into its displacement. To achieve work involving movement, e.g., an inspection task, in its working environment, it is necessary to specify its motion quantitatively. Since each of the links of the locomotor has passive wheels at its midpoint, it is not simple to design a feedback control system which enables the locomotor to follow desired paths (or to track desired trajectories) compared with wheel drive vehicles. Especially, the locomotor has singular attitudes in which the driving of its joints cannot be transformed into its movement. In this control method, a virtual link with a virtual steering system at its tip and a virtual axle at its midpoint connected to a top link through a virtual joint at its tip is caused to follow winding paths, which makes it possible to transform the driving torque of its joints into its propulsion force. The kinematical equations of the locomotor are formulated in a curvilinear coordinate system in which a winding path is one coordinate axis. A part of the kinematical equations describing the motion of the virtual mechanical elements only are converted into a chained form which facilitates to design a kinematical path following feedback control system. By a backstepping method, the acceleration required to realize the desired velocity in the kinematical control system is calculated. Based on the dynamical equations of the locomotor derived in Lagrangian mechanics, the torque of the joints of the locomotor is designed so as to realize the acceleration calculated by the backstepping method. The validity of this dynamical control method is verified by simulations in which the locomotor climbs a slope while following a serpenoid curve path.

著者

菅原 雄介 米澤 直晃 小菅 一弘

出版者

一般社団法人 日本ロボット学会

雑誌

日本ロボット学会誌 (ISSN:02891824)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.29, no.7, pp.599-608, 2011 (Released:2011-10-01)

参考文献数

27

被引用文献数

3 6

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This paper proposes the concept of a novel multi-wheel stair-climbing wheelchair. The necessity for mobility aid technology for elderly and handicapped people that has ``minimal invasiveness for use in an historical environment'' are described. With this goal in mind, a prototype of a novel wheelchair having a stair-climbing function resulting from transformable wheeled four-bar linkages is proposed, and the principle of operation, mechanism design, kinematics, statics and basic performance confirmed through a experiment are illustrated in this paper.