Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Publication Date
2018
Publisher
Elsevier
Source Publication
Procedia Manufacturing
Source ISSN
2351-9789
Abstract
Mobile manipulators are a potential solution to the increasing need for additional flexibility and mobility in industrial applications. However, they tend to lack the accuracy and precision achieved by fixed manipulators, especially in scenarios where both the manipulator and the autonomous vehicle move simultaneously. This paper analyzes the problem of dynamically evaluating the positioning error of mobile manipulators. In particular, it investigates the use of Bayesian methods to predict the position of the end-effector in the presence of uncertainty propagated from the mobile platform. The precision of the mobile manipulator is evaluated through its ability to intercept retroreflective markers using a photoelectric sensor attached to the end-effector. Compared to a deterministic search approach, we observed improved robustness with comparable search times, thereby enabling effective calibration of the mobile manipulator.
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Recommended Citation
Yaw, Amoako-Frimpong Samuel; Messina, Matthew; Medeiros, Henry P.; Marvel, Jeremy; and Bostelman, Roger, "Stochastic Search Methods for Mobile Manipulators" (2018). Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research and Publications. 599.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/electric_fac/599
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Comments
Published version. Procedia Manufacturing, Vol. 17, (2018): 976-984. DOI. © 2018 the Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0).