Force/Torque Sensorless Compliant Control Strategy for Assembly Tasks Using a 6-DOF Collaborative Robot

The flexibility of the robot assembly process is critical, and a robot assembly system that is not flexible may damage the workpieces. Most researchers make the assembly process flexible by installing a six-dimensional force/torque sensor at the end of robots, but doing so will result in an increase...

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Main Authors: Fan Zeng, Juliang Xiao, Haitao Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2019-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8778764/
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Juliang Xiao
Haitao Liu
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description The flexibility of the robot assembly process is critical, and a robot assembly system that is not flexible may damage the workpieces. Most researchers make the assembly process flexible by installing a six-dimensional force/torque sensor at the end of robots, but doing so will result in an increase in the costs of the robotic assembly system. To this end, this paper proposes an external force/torque calculation algorithm based on dynamic model identification to replace the six-dimensional force/torque sensor; the algorithm can reduce the costs while achieving a flexible assembly. In this paper, the impedance model of the environment and the dynamic model of the robot with friction are unified. Based on the unified model, the virtual contact surface is proposed to optimize the assembly. To ensure the accuracy of the assembly, the compliant control method of this paper uses the PD-based position control as the control inner loop and the impedance control as the control outer loop. To verify the accuracy of the compliant control method, a 6-DOF series collaborative robot which is developed in our laboratory is used to complete the peg-in-hole assembly experiment. The experimental results show that the algorithm has good flexibility and positional accuracy.
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spelling doaj.art-81c1319925784730a73af15320c418fa2022-12-21T22:11:24ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362019-01-01710879510880510.1109/ACCESS.2019.29315158778764Force/Torque Sensorless Compliant Control Strategy for Assembly Tasks Using a 6-DOF Collaborative RobotFan Zeng0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2097-7903Juliang Xiao1Haitao Liu2Key Laboratory of Mechanism Theory and Equipment Design of Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin, ChinaKey Laboratory of Mechanism Theory and Equipment Design of Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin, ChinaKey Laboratory of Mechanism Theory and Equipment Design of Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin, ChinaThe flexibility of the robot assembly process is critical, and a robot assembly system that is not flexible may damage the workpieces. Most researchers make the assembly process flexible by installing a six-dimensional force/torque sensor at the end of robots, but doing so will result in an increase in the costs of the robotic assembly system. To this end, this paper proposes an external force/torque calculation algorithm based on dynamic model identification to replace the six-dimensional force/torque sensor; the algorithm can reduce the costs while achieving a flexible assembly. In this paper, the impedance model of the environment and the dynamic model of the robot with friction are unified. Based on the unified model, the virtual contact surface is proposed to optimize the assembly. To ensure the accuracy of the assembly, the compliant control method of this paper uses the PD-based position control as the control inner loop and the impedance control as the control outer loop. To verify the accuracy of the compliant control method, a 6-DOF series collaborative robot which is developed in our laboratory is used to complete the peg-in-hole assembly experiment. The experimental results show that the algorithm has good flexibility and positional accuracy.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8778764/Collaborative robotcompliant controlimpedance controlvirtue contact surfacemodel identificationflexible assembly
spellingShingle Fan Zeng
Juliang Xiao
Haitao Liu
Force/Torque Sensorless Compliant Control Strategy for Assembly Tasks Using a 6-DOF Collaborative Robot
IEEE Access
Collaborative robot
compliant control
impedance control
virtue contact surface
model identification
flexible assembly
title Force/Torque Sensorless Compliant Control Strategy for Assembly Tasks Using a 6-DOF Collaborative Robot
title_full Force/Torque Sensorless Compliant Control Strategy for Assembly Tasks Using a 6-DOF Collaborative Robot
title_fullStr Force/Torque Sensorless Compliant Control Strategy for Assembly Tasks Using a 6-DOF Collaborative Robot
title_full_unstemmed Force/Torque Sensorless Compliant Control Strategy for Assembly Tasks Using a 6-DOF Collaborative Robot
title_short Force/Torque Sensorless Compliant Control Strategy for Assembly Tasks Using a 6-DOF Collaborative Robot
title_sort force torque sensorless compliant control strategy for assembly tasks using a 6 dof collaborative robot
topic Collaborative robot
compliant control
impedance control
virtue contact surface
model identification
flexible assembly
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8778764/
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