Introduction to Robotics(机器人学导论)School of Electrical Engineering and AutomationTianjin UniversityFall Semester, 2010•Time: Monday Night(Room 115, Section A,Building No. 26)Week 1st to Week 8th•Instructor: Dr. Xian, Bin (鲜斌）•Office: Room 525, Section E, Building No.26•Office Hours: 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm, Wednesday •E-mail : xbin@•Text Book and Reference Books1.John J. Craig, Introduction to Robotics: Mechanics AndControl, Third Edition, Pearson Education, 2005.约翰J. 克拉格，机器人学导论，机械工业出版社，2006.￥49$732.Saeed B. Niku, 机器人学导论－分析、系统及应用，孙富春等翻译，电子工业出版社，2004.3. Mark W. Spong, M. Vidyasagar, Robotics and Control, John Wiley& Sons, 2004.•Grading: Homework 20%Final exam 80%•Course Outline1.Background and Introduction2.Rigid Motion and Homogeneous Transformation3.Forward Manipulator Kinematics4.Inverse Manipulator Kinematics5.Velocity Kinematics6.Manipulator Dynamics7. Control of ManipulatorsChapter 1 IntroductionHollywood’s RobotsR2-D2T800Ch1.1Background1. What is a robot?By general agreement, a robot is:A programmable machine that imitates the actions orappearance of an intelligent creature–usually a human.A robot (industrial robot) is a reprogrammable,multifunctional manipulator designed to move materials, parts, tools, or specialized devices, through variable programmedmotions for the performance of a variety of tasks.(definition from Robotics Institute of American)¾ A Robot is controlled by a computer or similar device.¾ A Robot can be easily re-programmed.2.JIRA Standards for Robot¾Human-Controlled System¾Fixed Sequence Robot¾Alterable Sequence Robot¾Playback RobotRIA ¾Numerical Controlled Robot¾Intelligent Robot•Type of robots¾Robot Manipulator¾Ground Mobile Robot¾Under Water Robot¾Humanoid Robot3.What is Robotics?¾Robotics is the technology and knowledge that are used for design and application of robots.4.Robotics is a interdisciplinary research area:¾Mechanical Engineering: methodologies for the study of machine in static and dynamic situation …¾Electrical Engineering: design of sensor, actuator, interface, control algorithms, ….¾Computer Sciences: software, vision, intelligence….¾Mathematics¾BiologyCh1.2History of Robotics1.1922, Karel Capkef’s novel “Rossum’s Universal Robots”,--Rabota2.1952, First Numerical Control Machine Tool by MIT3.1954, First Re-programmable Robot by George Devol4.1955, Homogeneous Transformation by Denavit &Hartenberg5.1962, First Industry Robot by Unimation6.1968, First Intelligent Robot (Shakey)by SRI7.1972, Cartesian Space Robot by IBM (to IBM7565 Robot)8.1973, T3 Robot by Cincinnati Mialcron9.1978, PUMA Robot by Unimation10.1983, Robotics course were provided in many universitiesStanford Research Institute ---ShakeyUnimation-Puma RobotCh1.3Components of Robot •What a robot will contain?1.Manipulator or Mobile Vehicle2.End-effector3.Actuator: Servo Motor, Stepper Motor, HydraulicCylinder…4.Sensor: Resolvers/Potentiometers, Tachometer, StrainGauge, Encoder…5.Controller6.Processor7.Software: OS, Robot Software, Application Routines …Ch1.4Architecture of RobotEnvironmental sensors Motionplanner ControllerMechanicalStructureConfigurationsensorProcessorPower Supply CommunicationUser InterfaceCh1.5DOF of Robot•The Number of degree of freedom: the number of independent position variables that would have to bespecified in order to locate all the parts of the mechanism.•How to determine the location of a point in three dimension space?•How to determine the location of a rigid objective in three dimension space?Both position and orientation of the objective are needed!•For the robot with DOF greater than 6, there is no identical solution for the system.•What is the number of DOF for human’s arm?•Due to the structure of actuator, there is limited DOF, i.e,0.5 DOF.A B•Number of DOF for robot is determined by its application,i.e, robot for PCB assembly often has 3.5 DOFCh1.5Robot Joints•Main types: Rotary Joint, Prismatic Joint, and Ball Joint•It is customary to classify robots of kinematically simple class according to the design of their joints(the positioningstructure).•P: Prismatic JointR: Rotary JointS: Ball Jointi.e, 3P3R, 2RSCartesian (3P)Cylindrical (R2P)Spherical(2RP)Articulated (3R)SCARA: Selectively Compliant Assembly Robot ArmAdept Cobra s350 (2RP)Ch1.7Performance of Robot •Load Capacity: depends upon the size of its structural members, power-transmission systems and actuator. Example: Adept S1700 6 Axis Robot, Wight 280kg, payload 10kg(rate)/20kg(maximum)•Workspace: The maximum distance that the robot can reached within its working area.•Speed: be determined by robot’s application.•Accuracy: how accurately a robot can reach its destination, some industry robots can meet 0.001 inch ( or 0.0254mm) or higher accuracy.•Repeatability: the accuracy for a robot to reach the same destination for given times, most industry robots can reach0.001 inch or higher level.Ch1.8Application of Robot •Installed Industry Robots•Industry¾Welding¾Painting¾Assembly¾Pick and Place¾Diagnosis•Biotechnology¾Micro/Nano Manipulation¾Sample Handling¾Automated Analysis•MedicalSurgery, Rehabilitation ….•Military Application ¾Reconnaissance¾Battle field fighting¾Search¾Rescue•Space ExplorationMars Exploration Rovers: twin robot geologist, landed on Mars on Jan 3and 4, 2004Chinese Lunar Rovers: test inthe desert•EntertainmentSony QrioSony I-sobot RobotHonda ASIMOSony Qrio ---Fan DanceCh1.9Robot Coordinate System •Global Reference Coordinate System (frame)XY Z•Joint Reference Coordinate System (frame)XYZ(base)1θ2θ3θ•Tool Reference Coordinate System (frame)XYZ(base)X1Y1Z1Ch1.10Forward Kinematics •Kinematics: the science of motion that treats motion without regard to the forces which cause it.•Within the sciences of kinematics, we study position, velocity, acceleration and all higher derivative of theposition variables.•Kinematics refers to all the geometrical and time-based properties of the motion.•Forward kinematics: static geometrical problem of computing the position and orientation of the end-effector of the manipulator.•Given a set of joint angles, how to compute the position an orientation of the tool frame relative to the base frame.XYZ(base)X1Y1Z11θ2θ3θ•Inverse Kinematics: given the position and orientation of the end-effector, calculate all possible set of joint angles that could be used to attain this specified position and orientation.XYZ(base)X1Y1Z11θ2θ3θCh1.11Inverse Kinematics•This problem can be considered as a mapping of locations in external 3-D Cartesian space to locations in the robot’sinternal joint space.•The inverse kinematics problem is more complicate than the forward kinematics¾The kinematic equations are nonlinear, the solutionprocedure is not always easy.¾Existence of the solution? and multiple solution?Ch1.12Velocity Kinematics •Velocity Kinematics: derive the velocity relationship, relating the linear and angular velocities of the end-effector (or any other point on the robot) to the joint velocitiesXYZ(base)vw3θ2θ1θ•Jacobian Matrix: specifies a mapping from velocities in the joint space to velocities in the Cartesian space.•The nature of this mapping changes as the configuration of the robot varies.•Singularities: at certain points, the mapping is not invertible.Ch1.13Robot Dynamics •Dynamics: study devoted to study the force required to cause motion.XYZ(base)AV 1τ2τ3τ•The exact form of the required actuator torquedepends on mass properties of the robotlink/payload, the attributes of the path taken by the end-effector.•Robot dynamic mode can be utilized in¾calculating the desired actuator torque functionto drive the robot to follow desired trajectory¾simulationCh1.14Robot Control•Why need to consider robot control problem?¾The vast majority of manipulator are driven byactuators that supply a force or a torque to cause themotion of robot.¾An algorithm is needed to compute torque/force thatwill caused the desire motion.•Linear position control: control algorithm design based on linear approximations to the dynamics of a robot.•Nonlinear position control: control algorithm design based on the nonlinear dynamics of a robot.Ch1.15Summary •Definition and classification of robot •History of robot•Structure of robot•Application of robot•Basic concepts of robotics•Research on open problem¾Manipulation, Locomotion¾Navigation, Control¾Learning an Adaptation (AI)¾Human-Robot Interaction¾Biologically inspired robotThank You!。
