工业机器人平衡系统的研究

以某五自由度空间关节型喷漆机器人小臂的弹簧－重力组合式平衡系统及大臂的弹簧式平衡系统为研究对象，探讨了其数学模型的建立方法，提出了利用弹簧的初拉力来平衡机器人大小臂的观点，最后结合实例进行设计计算。     

空间科学实验机器人辅助遥操作系统

建立了一个面向空间舱内晶体生长科学实验的地面模拟机器人遥操作系统。该系统通过基于虚拟现实的预测仿真来克服通讯时延的影响，并通过仿真图形和实际视频图像的叠加来对虚似仿真环境进行校准，以提高预测仿真的保真性。操作员利用空间鼠标等人机交互工具实时控制仿真机器人系统的运动，通过遥控与自主相结合的方式，并借助全局和局部视觉信息，完成了在空间晶体生长科学实验中更换晶体炉料棒的作业任务。     

A Partially Orthogonal EnKF approach to atmospheric density estimation using orbital debris

A key requirement for accurate trajectory prediction and space situational awareness is knowledge of how non-conservative forces affect space object motion. These forces vary temporally and spatially, and are driven by the underlying behavior of space weather particularly in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Existing trajectory prediction algorithms adjust space weather models based on calibration satellite observations. However, lack of sufficient data and mismodeling of non-conservative forces cause inaccuracies in space object motion prediction, especially for uncontrolled debris objects. The uncontrolled nature of debris objects makes them particularly sensitive to the variations in space weather. Our research takes advantage of this behavior by utilizing observations of debris objects to infer the space environment parameters influencing their motion.The hypothesis of this research is that it is possible to utilize debris objects as passive, indirect sensors of the space environment. We focus on estimating atmospheric density and its spatial variability to allow for more precise prediction of LEO object motion. The estimated density is parameterized as a grid of values, distributed by latitude and local sidereal time over a spherical shell encompassing Earth at a fixed altitude of 400 km. The position and velocity of each debris object are also estimated. A Partially Orthogonal Ensemble Kalman Filter (POEnKF) is used for assimilation of space object measurements to estimate density.For performance comparison, the scenario characteristics (number of objects, measurement cadence, etc.) are based on a sensor tasking campaign executed for the High Accuracy Satellite Drag Model project. The POEnKF analysis details spatial comparisons between the true and estimated density fields, and quantifies the improved accuracy in debris object motion predictions due to more accurate drag force models from density estimates. It is shown that there is an advantage to utilizing multiple debris objects instead of just one object. Although the work presented here explores the POEnKF performance when using information from only 16 debris objects, the research vision is to utilize information from all routinely observed debris objects. Overall, the filter demonstrates the ability to estimate density to within a threshold of accuracy dependent on measurement/sensor error. In the case of a geomagnetic storm, the filter is able to track the storm and provide more accurate density estimates than would be achieved using a simple exponential atmospheric density model or MSIS Atmospheric Model (when calm conditions are assumed).     

基于高斯过程的机器人自适应抓取策略

在机器人抓取作业时,目标物体的位姿经常发生变化。为了使机器人在运动过程中能够适应物体的位姿变化,提出了一种基于高斯过程的机器人自适应抓取策略。该方法建立了从观测空间到关节空间的映射,使机器人从样本中学习,省去了机器人视觉系统的标定和逆运动学求解。首先,拖动机器人抓取物体,记录物体的观测变量和机器人的关节角度;然后,利用记录的样本训练高斯过程模型,实现观测变量和关节角度的关联;最后,当得到新的观测变量时,通过训练的高斯过程模型得到机器人的关节角度。经过训练后,UR3机器人成功抓取了物体。     

Energy efficient reactionless design of multi-arm space robot for a cooperative handshake maneuver

Space robots play a significant role in on-orbit capture, space structure construction, and assembly tasks. Since the robotic arms are attached to a free-floating satellite, the motion of the manipulator in such tasks and the satellite are coupled. Multiple-arm space robots can perform complex cooperative tasks and are superior to single-arm space robots. Current work proposes a reactionless manipulation algorithm for a multi-robotic arm based on the iterative Newton–Euler method for space robots with many task and balance arms. The present work demonstrates two tasks and one balance arm to perform a reactionless handshake maneuver in space. This maneuver is presented in detail for a planar and spatial case. The planar case uses 3 DoF robotic arms, while the spatial case uses 6 DoF robotic arms. In addition, the balance arm has been designed considering the efficient usage of energy satisfying reactionless manipulation concept. The design procedure focuses on minimizing energy used during the motion of the balance arm for a known motion of task arms using a genetic algorithm. Moreover, computational experiments are conducted to validate the use of the genetic algorithm for optimization. The results of proposed reactionless manipulation algorithm have been validated with the results available in the literature for the spatial case that uses a different method. In the future, an energy-efficient balance arm will be designed to handle tumbling objects.     

空间机器人操作：一种多任务学习视角

利用空间机器人辅助、代替航天员完成在轨服务操作是近年的技术发展趋势。基于学习的空间机器人操作以深度神经网络为控制器载体,对非结构化太空环境适应能力强,在高轨、地外、深空等场景具有良好应用前景。目前,无论是空间机器人操作,还是地面机器人操作,多数研究只关注单一任务学习问题。立足一种多任务学习新视角,针对空间机器人操作面临的多任务适应性要求高、精细化要求高、不确定性强问题,首先分析了在轨服务的多样化任务需求。其次,全面综述了机器人操作多任务学习算法与应用相关工作,分析了开展空间机器人操作多任务学习的难点挑战,给出了关键技术发展建议。相关关键技术的突破将有助于提升空间机器人系统的自主性、鲁棒性,进而助力中国在轨服务技术向无人全自主方向推进。     

一种柔性空间双臂机器人的协同控制和避障方法

针对柔性空间机械臂在轨服务应用需求,提出一种基于刚体运动与柔性振动相耦合的空间双臂机器人协同控制方法.首先引入空间位姿变量的概念,构造出面向协同控制目标的Jacobian矩阵,建立柔性空间机器人系统的刚柔耦合动力学模型,基于指定的最小距离得到其运动学逆解,并根据系统动量矩守恒关系及系统的Jacobian矩阵,并根据机械臂末端的运动速度,然后采用阻尼最小二乘法得出关节角度,使柔性空间机器人能够有效完成协同控制和空间避障任务,并基于RecurDyn V7R5软件环境验证算法的正确性.最后,基于SolidWorks和ADAMS虚拟样机建立柔性空间机器人系统的立体CAD模型,并结合空间在轨搬运任务进行模拟仿真,柔性空间机器人关节操作和运动轨迹的仿真结果图验证了本文算法的有效性.     

绳驱动拟人臂机器人的动力学建模及张力分析

与传统的机械臂相比,绳驱动拟人臂机器人采用串并混联的结构形式,模拟了人手臂肌肉的并联驱动方式,但是,绳索的引入也增加了动力学分析的难度.将绳驱动拟人臂机器人视为基座、大臂、小臂和末端四连杆串联机构,采用迭代牛顿-欧拉法建立动力学方程的递推形式,考虑绳驱动的冗余特性和绳索的单方向受力性,提出基于动态最小预紧力的张力分配算法,求解出各绳索的驱动力.与未进行张力分配的方法及基于静态最小预紧力的方法相比,所提出的算法可使各绳索驱动力根据动态最小预紧力进行实时调节,满足了不同工作条件下机构的刚度要求.     

脑外科机器人视觉伺服研究

定位精度是脑外科机器人系统一个最重要的指标.提出了利用视觉伺服提高脑外科机器人系统定位精度的方法.根据机器人辅助脑外科手术的特点,选择基于位置的末端点闭环的视觉伺服方式,提出了一种利用机器人运动信息对机器人的特征点进行视觉跟踪定位的稳定可靠的方法.针对病人体内病灶点在摄像机图像中不可见的问题,推导了脑外科机器人系统的视觉伺服控制律.采用视觉伺服的方法后,系统定位精度有了很大提高,系统定位误差主要由靶点映射误差引起,受机器人绝对定位误差的影响不大.手术过程模拟和定位精度测试验证了该方法的有效性.      

一种用于运动目标捕获的行星轮差动式欠驱动臂

为解决运动目标捕获过程中的碰撞问题,采用欠驱动自适应原理研制了具有碰撞能量吸收能力的机械臂。三自由度的机械臂由2个电机驱动:基关节由单个电机驱动;中关节和末关节由一个单输入双输出行星轮组完成动力分配。在机械臂捕获运动目标过程中,碰撞产生的部分冲击能量通过欠驱动行星轮组传递到末关节,转化为关节动能。依靠欠驱动机械系统完成对碰撞的响应,解决了控制系统因时延而无法快速对碰撞进行响应的难题。为完成对目标的抓取,基于阻抗控制提出了机械臂运动目标捕获控制算法。运动目标捕获实验验证了机械臂对碰撞的快速响应能力及运动目标捕获控制算法的可行性。      

基于自适应迭代的机器人曲面恒力跟踪

针对利用机器人进行打磨、抛光、去毛刺等场合时末端执行器对曲面工件轮廓跟踪时难以得到恒定接触力的问题,对机器人末端执行器和工件轮廓接触时的接触力进行研究,建立了实际跟踪过程中机器人末端执行器的接触力和已知传感器坐标系的映射关系,提出了一种基于自适应迭代学习算法的机器人力/位混合曲面恒力跟踪控制方法。该方法由两部分组成:基于机器人和环境接触时的阻抗模型设计了迭代学习控制律,在PD反馈控制的基础上通过迭代项克服机器人的未知参数和不确定性,并构建Lyapunov能量函数证明所提控制律的收敛性;将迭代学习控制律和力/位混合曲面恒力跟踪控制方法结合起来设计了用于曲面工件轮廓跟踪的控制方法。实验结果显示,经过15次迭代,接触力的波动范围逐渐变小并稳定在±3 N之内,验证了所提方法的有效性。      

ALTEA: anomalous long term effects in astronauts. A probe on the influence of cosmic radiation and microgravity on the central nervous system during long flights.

The ALTEA project participates to the quest for increasing the safety of manned space flights. It addresses the problems related to possible functional damage to neural cells and circuits due to particle radiation in space environment. Specifically it aims at studying the functionality of the astronauts' Central Nervous Systems (CNS) during long space flights and relating it to the peculiar environments in space, with a particular focus on the particle flux impinging in the head. The project is a large international and multidisciplinary collaboration. Competences in particle physics, neurophysiology, psychophysiology, electronics, space environment, data analyses will work together to construct the fully integrated vision electrophysiology and particle analyser system which is the core device of the project: an helmet-shaped multi-sensor device that will measure concurrently the dynamics of the functional status of the visual system and passage of each particle through the brain within a pre-determined energy window. ALTEA is scheduled to fly in the International Space Station in late 2002. One part of the multi-sensor device, one of the advanced silicon telescopes, will be launched in the ISS in early 2002 and serve as test for the final device and as discriminating dosimeter for the particle fluences within the ISS.     

Design and fabrication of robotic gripper for grasping in minimizing contact force

This paper presents a new method to improve the kinematics of robot gripper for grasping in unstructured environments, such as space operations. The robot gripper is inspired from the human hand and kept the hand design close to the structure of human fingers to provide successful grasping capabilities. The main goal is to improve kinematic structure of gripper to increase the grasping capability of large objects, decrease the contact forces and makes a successful grasp of various objects in unstructured environments. This research will describe the development of a self-adaptive and reconfigurable robotic hand for space operations through mechanical compliance which is versatile, robust and easy to control. Our model contains two fingers, two-link and three-link, with combining a kinematic model of thumb index. Moreover, some experimental tests are performed to examine the effectiveness of the hand-made in real, unstructured tasks. The results represent that the successful grasp range is improved about 30% and the contact forces is reduced approximately 10% for a wide range of target object size. According to the obtained results, the proposed approach provides an accommodative kinematic model which makes the better grasping capability by fingers geometries for a robot gripper.     

Coordinated control of dual-arm robot on space structure for capturing space targets

This paper presents a coordinated control scheme for two capture tasks via a dual-arm space robot with its base on a flexible space structure. The robot system consists of a base, a mission arm for capture, and a balance arm for removing disturbance forces to the base. To counteract the impact of structural vibration, a two-stage strategy containing a vibration control stage and a target capture stage is proposed. In the first stage, the robot and structure are treated as a mass-spring system in which the coupling effect between the robot and the flexible structure is exploited to suppress structural vibration. Notably, the collision avoidance between two arms is achieved by a velocity inequality constraint, wherein the reactionless motion is utilized. In the second stage, a reactionless trajectory is planned for the mission arm to reach the target location and attitude, as the balance arm remove the coupling disturbance to the base. Afterwards, the balance arm becomes the new mission arm for capture and the other arm is defined as the new balance arm. Finally, numerical simulations are given to validate the efficiency of the proposed coordinated control strategy.     

基于概念空间学习认知的机器人目标识别方法

针对复杂环境中机器人多类目标识别通常所依托的原始特征空间中数据区分度低、难以直接表达高层次特征知识的挑战性问题,采用概念空间知识表达方法,通过多传感器数据融合与特征提取建立基本特征空间,并运用高斯混合模型表示目标的各种属性,形成具有高层知识特性的概念空间,在此基础上进行高层知识的概念学习,增强多类目标在概念空间中的可区分性.利用支持向量机作为机器人的分类器,实现针对室内环境的多类目标物体的准确识别.实验结果表明:该方法不但有效地获取和表达待识别目标的高层特征知识,而且能有效提高机器人的目标识别与环境感知能力,展现出优越的分类识别性能.     

A universal on-orbit servicing system used in the geostationary orbit

The geostationary orbit (GEO), a unique satellite orbit of the human beings, is a very precious orbit resource. However, the continuous increasing of GEO debris makes the GEO orbit more and more crowded. Moreover, the failures of GEO spacecrafts will result in large economic cost and other bad impacts. In this paper, we proposed a space robotic servicing system, and developed key pose (position and orientation) measurement and control algorithm. Firstly, the necessity of orbit service in GEO was analyzed. Then, a servicing concept for GEO non-cooperative targets was presented and a universal space robotic servicing system was designed. The system has a 2-DOF docking mechanism, a 7-DOF redundant manipulator and a set of stereo vision, in addition to the traditional subsystems of a spacecraft. This system can serve most existing satellites in GEO, not requiring specially designed objects for grappling and measuring on the target. The servicing contents include: (a) visual inspecting; (b) target tracking, approaching and docking; (c) ORUs (Orbital Replacement Units) replacement; (d) Malfunctioned mechanism deploying; (e) satellites life extension by taking over its control, or re-orbiting the abandoned satellites. As an example, the servicing mission of a malfunctioned GEO satellite with three severe mechanical failures was designed and simulated. The results showed the validity and flexibility of the proposed system.     

激光寻距器作可见物体测量

提出一种能从一幅图象中测出物体三维信息的激光寻距器,介绍了它的结构,并据此讨论了从二维图象到三维图象的变换算法和从表面到物体的识别方法。激光寻距器用于引导机器人焊接,证明可见物体的测量是成功的。     

空间站机械臂研究

空间极端环境下, 大多数舱外活动必须借助于机械臂. 机械臂是国际空间站的主要组成部分, 其对空间站的在轨组装、外部维修以及运行起着至关重要的作用, 同时机械臂可以减少航天员在舱外的工作时间和频率. 通过对国际空间站成员国关于机械臂研究概况的介绍, 包括航天飞机机械臂、空间站机械臂、欧洲机械臂、日本实验舱机械臂以及德国机械臂, 为中国空间机械臂的设计提供参考.     

基于CCD和超声的物体位姿检测方法及精度分析

介绍了用单个CCD摄像机和超声传感器相结合检测物体位姿的方法.首先由CCD摄像机采集一幅图像,获取物体上目标点在图像坐标系中的理想坐标,并由此确定该点投影矢量(连接物体点和对应图像点的直线)的方向;然后控制机器人运动,使超声传感器的z轴与求得的投影矢量重合;最后用超声传感器测出投影矢量的长度,确定目标点在摄像机坐标系中的坐标.分析了影响检测精度的主要因素,具体研究了超声传感器的安装参数对检测精度的影响规律,进行了仿真分析.该方法可以有效地降低图像处理所带来的巨大数据量,避开双目视觉中的图像匹配问题,快捷、精确检测物体的位姿.     

一个基于网络的程序自动评测系统

基于网络的分布式程序自动评测体系结构提供了一种高效、准确、适应性强的机制来实现一个评测系统.该体系结构通过被动激活方式利用木马技术,保证了系统在通讯和评测过程中的安全性,并在评测中实现了评测程序对系统资源的零占用,这使得样本程序在开发和评测时处于一致的运行环境中.该体系结构通过规则库和过滤程序的使用,提高了其灵活性和适应性,使得它可以适用于更多类型的样本程序.在此基础上,实现了一套完整的应用系统.经过多次实际应用,证明其具有高效、安全和配置灵活的特点.