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In this paper, a target approachable force-guided control with adaptive accommodation for complex assembly is presented. Complex assembly (CA) is defined as a task which deals with complex shaped parts including concavity, or whose environment is so complex that unexpected contacts occur frequently during insertion. CA tasks are encountered frequently in the field of manufacturing automation and various robot applications. To make CA successful, both the bounded wrench condition and the target approachability condition should be satisfied simultaneously during insertion. The bounded wrench condition can be satisfied by properly designing accommodation parameters, which depends on the tolerable stiffness for an assembly task, not to exceed the prescribed contact wrench. On the other hand, the target approachability condition can be satisfied by determining an admissible twist minimizing the deviation between the current and target twist. By applying convex optimization techniques, an optimum target approaching twist can be determined at each instantaneous contact state as a global minimum solution. Incorporated with an admissible perturbation method, a new CA algorithm using only the sensed resultant wrench and the target twist is developed without motion planning or contact analysis (which requires the geometry of the part and the environment). To verify the feasibility of the new assembly algorithm, a wench sensor model based on a minimum distance algorithm has been developed and used to estimate contact wrenches in graphic assembly simulation. Finally, a VME bus-based real-time control system is built for experiments on various CA tasks. The T-insertion task as a planar CA, and the double-peg assembly task as a spatial CA, were successfully executed by implementing the new force-guided control with adaptive accommodation.
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Kang, S., Kim, M., Lee, Cw. et al. A target-approachable force-guided control with adaptive accommodation for complex assembly. KSME International Journal 13, 886–904 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03184756
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