TY - GEN
T1 - Current and future applications of flexible manipulator control
AU - Post, Brian K.
AU - Book, Wayne J.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - While advances in control system design have enabled more efficient and accurate manipulation, industry has been reluctant to embrace lightweight and large workspace robotic manipulators. The demand for high precision in both static positioning and dynamic motion has driven manipulator design and resulted in inefficient, expensive, and potentially dangerous robot arms. By making the structures of these robots lighter, it allows for higher speed manipulation, less energy consumption, and a safer working environment for operators. Recent and ongoing research in the control of flexible motion systems has promise to improve the performance of these systems, increasing their utility. With increased precision, speed, and workspace size along with reductions in purchasing and operating costs come interesting and appealing applications of this technology. With continued advances in computing power, actuation technology, and sensing systems, this trend will surely continue, ushering in a myriad of application specific robotic solutions to currently unrealized markets.
AB - While advances in control system design have enabled more efficient and accurate manipulation, industry has been reluctant to embrace lightweight and large workspace robotic manipulators. The demand for high precision in both static positioning and dynamic motion has driven manipulator design and resulted in inefficient, expensive, and potentially dangerous robot arms. By making the structures of these robots lighter, it allows for higher speed manipulation, less energy consumption, and a safer working environment for operators. Recent and ongoing research in the control of flexible motion systems has promise to improve the performance of these systems, increasing their utility. With increased precision, speed, and workspace size along with reductions in purchasing and operating costs come interesting and appealing applications of this technology. With continued advances in computing power, actuation technology, and sensing systems, this trend will surely continue, ushering in a myriad of application specific robotic solutions to currently unrealized markets.
KW - Compliance
KW - Control systems
KW - Manipulation
KW - Robotic systems
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84855754209&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84855754209
SN - 9781618392008
T3 - 3rd Int. Joint Topical Meeting on Emergency Preparedness and Response and Robotics and Remote Systems 2011, EPRRSD, and 13th Robotics and Remote Systems for Hazardous Environments
SP - 740
EP - 751
BT - 3rd Int. Joint Topical Meeting on Emerg. Preparedness and Response and Robotics and Remote Syst. 2011, EPRRSD, 13th Robotics and Remote Syst. for Hazardous Environ. and 11th Emerg. Prep. and Response
T2 - 3rd Int. Joint Topical Meeting on Emergency Preparedness and Response and Robotics and Remote Systems 2011, EPRRSD, 13th Robotics and Remote Systems for Hazardous Environments and 11th Emergency Preparedness and Response
Y2 - 7 August 2011 through 10 August 2011
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