Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A (대한기계학회논문집A)

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Development of an Intrinsic Continuum Robot and Attitude Estimation of Its End-effector Based on a Kalman Filter

내부형 연속체로봇 개발 및 칼만필터를 이용한 말단장치 자세추정

  • Received : 2014.11.10
  • Accepted : 2015.02.10
  • Published : 2015.04.01
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Abstract

This paper presents the design concept of an intrinsic continuum robot for safe man-machine interface and characteristic behaviors of its end-effector based on real experiments. Since pneumatic artificial muscles having similar antagonistic actuation to human muscles are used for main backbones of the proposed robot as well as in the role of the actuating devices, variable stiffness of robotic joints can be available in the actual environment. In order to solve the inherent shortcoming of an intrinsic continuum robot due to bending motion of the backbone materials, a Kalman filter scheme based on a triaxial accelerometer and a triaxial gyroscope was proposed to conduct an attitude estimation of the end-effector of the robot. The experimental results verified that the proposed method was effective in estimating the attitude of the end-effector of the intrinsic continuum robot.

논문에서는 인간과의 안전한 접촉이 가능한 내부형 연속체로봇에 대한 설계개념과 로봇 말단장치의 운동특성실험을 제시한다. 인간의 근육과 유사한 상극구동방식으로 작동하는 공압인공근육을 연속체로봇의 백본 및 구동장치로 사용하기 때문에, 외부환경과의 부드러운 접촉과 강한 접촉을 선택적으로 제어할 수 있는 로봇 관절에서의 가변강성이 가능하다. 그러나 내부형 연속체로봇은 백본소재의 굽힘운동을 예측하기 어렵기 때문에 로봇 말단장치에서의 자세를 추정하기 어렵다. 이를 해결하기 위해 3 축 가속도계와 3 축 자이로스코프를 이용한 칼만필터 방법을 제안하고 개발된 내부형 연속체 로봇의 자세추정에 적용하여 실제 실험을 통해서 제안된 방법의 효율성을 검증하였다.

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