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HIGH-LEVEL ROBOT ARM MANIPULATION PRIMITIVES
Thesis Proposal for the Master of Science Degree in Computer Science
Presented by Glenn NickensAdvised by Dr. David Touretzky
Thursday, January 29, 2009
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Outline
• Introduction to the research topic• Problem statement• Accomplished background work• Proposed method of completion and testing• Expected outcome and contributions• Timeline
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Introduction
• Access to the field of robotics has been limited in computer science undergraduate programs due to :– The complexity of the underlying mathematics and theory
that is needed to implement kinematics, path planning and manipulation
– The size, cost and/or limited capabilities of available robots
• To help solve this problem, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed:– Tekkotsu– A hand-eye robot
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Introduction
• Tekkotsu– Is an open source robot programming framework
based on C++.– Is an object-oriented and event passing
architecture that makes full use of the template and inheritance features of C++ (Tekkotsu).
– Programmers use high-level primitives, such as “nod your head” and “walk to that location”, to control robots.
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Introduction
• The hand-eye robot:– Has a three-link planar arm, with a webcam
attached to a pan-tilt above it for vision– Is a small, affordable robot that fits on a
classroom table– Can be programmed to manipulate objects
identified by the camera
• However, Tekkotsu does not have high-level manipulation primitives for an arm.
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Introduction
• Developing the high-level primitives necessary to perform manipulation with the arm is the subject of this research proposal.
• Once the primitives are developed, I will test them by writing a tic-tac-toe player.
• The player will use only the primitives developed in this research to manipulate the game pieces.
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Problem Statement
Tekkotsu does not have the high-level manipulation primitives for a hand-eye robot to perform complex tasks such as moving an object to a target position. In this research I will specify the primitives required to perform complex tasks. I will implement them, then demonstrate that the primitives are suitable for performing the tasks.
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Background
• To develop the manipulation primitives the following are necessary:– A robot arm– Kinematics– Collision detection– Path planning– Path smoothing
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Three-Link Planar Arm
• Three Dynamixel AX-12 servos
• Upper arm and forearm are constructed of aluminum tubes and elongated c-brackets
• End-effector is a c-bracket
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Manipulation Surfaces
• No closeable fingers• Must move objects by
pushing them• Three manipulation
surfaces:– Interior of the c-bracket– Wrist– Forearm & Upper arm
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Why not two links?• Manipulation in the
plane requires at least 3DOF (x, y, and ).
• A two-link arm only has 2DOF.
• A a three-link arm can reach a target from many angles; a two-link arm can reach it from only two angles.
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Why not four or more links?• Given a target and angle
of manipulation, a three-link arm will have at most two solutions, a four-link arm may have infinitely many solutions.
• Solving kinematics for a four-link arm is more complex than for a three-link arm.
• Links are expensive (power, weight, wiring).
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Kinematics
• Kinematics describes the relationship between the position and orientation of the end-effector and the joint angles of the arm.
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Forward Kinematics
• Forward/direct kinematics calculations determine the end effector configuration given the joint angles.
• Forward kinematics calculations are easily solved with a series of matrix multiplications, and will always produce a unique solution.
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Inverse Kinematics
• Inverse kinematics calculations search for a set of joint angles that produce a specified end effector configuration.
• Inverse kinematics calculations are harder; there may be many solutions, or there may be none.
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Inverse Kinematics
• In this research, inverse kinematics is used to determine the shoulder, elbow, and wrist angles given a target position and the manipulation surface orientation.
• The inverse kinematics calculations for the arm use a four step process based on a common analytical approach documented in the book ‘Robot Modeling and Control’.
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IK Calculations Process1. Determine the wrist
position [xw, yw] from the target point [xt, yt] and desired orientation, ϕt.
2. Determine the elbow angle, θ2, from the wrist position [xw, yw] and arm dimensions, L1 and L2.
3. Determine the shoulder angle, θ1.
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Multiple Solutions
• The step for determining the elbow angle, θ2, may produce two solutions.
• These are called the elbow up and elbow down configurations.
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IK Modifications
• The inverse kinematics calculations process described thus far is ideal for arms whose joints turn without bound and whose environments are obstacle free.
• Modifications have been made to these calculations to create an IK solver specifically for the arm in this research.
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IK Modifications
• The joints cannot turn a full 360° because adjacent arm segments will collide.
• The IK solver only uses configurations that are within the turning limits of each joint.
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IK Modifications• Sometimes a target is not reachable from a desired orientation,
but may be reached from another orientation.• The IK solver will search around the desired orientation at 10°
intervals for 180° in both directions until a valid solution is found.
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IK Modifications
• When both elbow up and elbow down configurations are valid, the IK solver must choose one.
• It chooses the one that has the same elbow direction as the arm’s current configuration.
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IK Modifications
• The IK solver uses a collision detection algorithm to check for collisions of the arm with itself or with objects in the environment.
• Arm segments and obstacles are represented as rectangles.
• The algorithm is based on the Separating Axis Theorem.
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Path PlannerOnce the kinematics solver has determined the start and end configurations for the arm, a collision free path must be computed to move the arm.
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Path Planning
• Path planning is the construction of a continuous sequence of arm configurations from the start to the end configuration while respecting constraints (Kuffner 2009).
• The constraints in this research are the arm’s joint limits, obstacles in the environment, and the need to maintain contact with objects.
• The path planner in this research is based on an algorithm called RRT-Connect (Kuffner 2000).
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Rapidly-exploring Random Trees• Rapidly-exploring
Random Trees (RRTs) are trees whose vertices encode configuration states of the arm (LaValle 1998).
• The RRT grows by alternately extending the tree in random directions and moving toward the goal configuration.
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RRT-Connect
• RRT-Connect grows two RRTs, one from the start and one from the goal configuration, and biases the trees to grow toward each other.
• Once the RRTs connect, the path is extracted using backtracking.
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Path Smoothing
• The random component of the RRT-Connect search often results in a jerky and meandering solution, therefore a smoothing algorithm is applied to the path.
• Smoothing is accomplished by selecting random segments to be snipped from the path.
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Paths• The pictures to the right show
the arm’s trajectory along a path from the start, green, to the end, red, configuration.
• The first image shows a path constructed by the path planner.
• The second image shows the same path, but after the smoothing algorithm has been applied to it.
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Methodology
• In this section I will discuss:– The high-level primitives I have chosen– How I plan on implementing them and– How I will demonstrate the success of my work
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Manipulation primitives
• I have chosen five high-level manipulation primitives:– Move an object to a precise position– Sweep a collection of objects from one region of
the workspace to another– Pick an object out of a pile– Adjust the orientation of an object– Propel an object in a specified direction
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High-Level Primitives
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Move an object to a target position
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High-Level Primitives
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Sweep a collection of objects
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High-Level Primitives
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Pick an object out of a pile
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High-Level Primitives
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Adjust the orientation of an object
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High-Level Primitives
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Propel an object in a direction
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Manipulation Planner
• To realize the primitives, I will develop a manipulation planner to determine:– Which manipulation surface to use– How to acquire contact with an object– What trajectory the arm should follow
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Planning Process Complications
• Joint limits and obstacles constrain the arm’s freedom of motion.
• The forearm will collide with the upper arm or the red obstacle if it tries to move inward or outward, respectively.
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Planning Process Complications
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Planned trajectories must keep the manipulation surface in contact with the object
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Planning Process ComplicationsMoving an object with the upper arm or the forearm is imprecise because it may slide.
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Planning Process Complications
Some tasks may require multiple manipulations
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Executing the Plan
• I will develop a manipulation engine to execute the plans produced by the manipulation planner.
• The engine will:– Monitor the execution of each step– Take corrective action should something go wrong
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Manipulation Engine
• Monitoring will be done by:– Verifying arm positions by checking the joint angles– Verifying object positions using vision
• Corrective action may have to be taken because:– The arm may not have acquired the object– The object may not be where it should be– The arm may have accidentally moved the object
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Validation: A tic-tac-toe player
• The player will use only three of the primitives mentioned earlier– Moving a game piece– Sweeping game pieces off the board– Picking a game piece from a pile
• The tic-tac-toe player will not reference any low-level concepts such as kinematics, path planning or manipulation surfaces.
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Playing tic-tac-toe
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Contributions/Expected Outcome• My work will allow robot programmers to easily
manipulate objects by specifying desired effects and letting the planner figure out how to achieve them.
• Students in undergraduate robotics courses will be able to experiment with manipulation without having to write their own kinematics solvers, path planners, or collision detection algorithms.
• The manipulation planner and engine will be integrated into the Tekkotsu framework and will be used on other robots, including the Chiara.
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Timeline/Milestones
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References
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1. Tekkotsu: Getting Started. (2007) Retrieved 26 January 2009 from Tekkotsu web site: http://tekkotsu.no-ip.org/gettingstarted.html.
2. Spong, Mark W., Seth Hutchinson, and M. Vidyasagar. Robot Modeling and Control. John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
3. Kuffner, James. “Classical Path Planning with RRTs”. http://www.kuffner.org/james/plan/. January 13, 2009.
4. Kuffner, James J., Steven M. LaValle. RRT-connect: An efficient approach to single-query path planning. In Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pages 995--1001, 2000. http://msl.cs.uiuc.edu/~lavalle/rrtpubs.html.
5. LaValle, Steven M. Rapidly-Exploring Random Trees: A New Tool for Path Planning. TR 98-11, Computer Science Dept., Iowa State Univ. http://msl.cs.uiuc.edu/~lavalle/rrtpubs.html, Oct. 1998.
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