Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10400044 | Control Engineering Practice | 2012 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
One important issue in the motion planning of a kinematic redundant manipulator is fault tolerance. In general, if the motion planner is fault tolerant, the manipulator can achieve the required path of the end-effector even when its joint fails. In this situation, the contribution of the faulty joint to the end-effector is required to be compensated by the healthy joints to maintain the prescribed end-effector trajectory. To achieve this, this paper proposes a fault-tolerant motion planning scheme by adding a simple fault-tolerant equality constraint for the faulty joint. Such a scheme is then unified into a quadratic program (QP), which incorporates joint-physical constraints such as joint limits and joint-velocity limits. In addition, a numerical computing solver based on linear variational inequalities (LVI) is presented for the real-time QP solving. Simulative studies and experimental results based on a six degrees-of-freedom (DOF) redundant robot manipulator with variable joint-velocity limits substantiate the effectiveness of the proposed fault-tolerant scheme and its solution.
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Authors
Kene Li, Yunong Zhang,