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Planning Collision Free Motions for Pick and Place Operations

An efficient algorithm which finds collision free paths for a manipulator with 5 or 6 revolute joints is described. It solves the problem for four degree of freedom pick and place operations. Examples are given of paths found by the algorithm in tightly cluttered workspaces. The algorithm first describes free space in two ways: as freeways for the hand and payload ensemble and as freeways for the upperarm. Freeways match volumes swept out by manipulator motions and can be "inverted" to find a class of topologically equivalent path segments. The two freeway spaces are searched concurrently under projection of constraints determined by motion of the forearm.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/5650
Date01 May 1983
CreatorsBrooks, Rodney A.
Source SetsM.I.T. Theses and Dissertation
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
Format49 p., 5418871 bytes, 4253848 bytes, application/postscript, application/pdf
RelationAIM-725

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