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ARapidlyDeployableManipulatorSystem

ChristiaanJ.J.Paredis,H.BenjaminBrown,PradeepK.Khosla

Abstract:

Arapidlydeployablemanipulatorsystemcombinestheflexibilityofreconfigurablemodularhardwarewithmodularprogrammingtools,allowingtheusertorapidlycreateamanipulatorwhichiscustom-tailoredforagiventask.Thisarticledescribestwomainaspectsofsuchasystem,namely,theReconfigurableModularManipulatorSystem（RMMS）hardwareandthecorrespondingcontrolsoftware.

1Introduction

Robotmanipulatorscanbeeasilyreprogrammedtoperformdifferenttasks,yettherangeoftasksthatcanbeperformedbyamanipulatorislimitedbymechanicalstructure.Forexample,amanipulatorwell-suitedforprecisemovementacrossthetopofatablewouldprobablynobecapableofliftingheavyobjectsintheverticaldirection.Therefore,toperformagiventask,oneneedstochooseamanipulatorwithanappropriatemechanicalstructure.

Weproposetheconceptofarapidlydeployablemanipulatorsystemtoaddresstheabovementionedshortcomingsoffixedconfigurationmanipulators.AsisillustratedinFigure1,arapidlydeployablemanipulatorsystemconsistsofsoftwareandhardwarethatallowtheusertorapidlybuildandprogramamanipulatorwhichiscustomtailoredforagiventask.

ThecentralbuildingblockofarapidlydeployablesystemisaReconfigurableModularManipulatorSystem（RMMS）.TheRMMSutilizesastockofinterchangeablelinkandjointmodulesofvarioussizesandperformancespecifications.OnesuchmoduleisshowninFigure2.Bycombiningthesegeneralpurposemodules,awiderangeofspecialpurposemanipulatorscanbeassembled.Recently,therehasbeenconsiderableinterestintheideaofmodularmanipulators[2,4,5,7,9,10,14],forresearchapplicationsaswellasforindustrialapplications.However,mostofthesesystemslackthepropertyofreconfigurability,whichiskeytotheconceptofrapidlydeployablesystems.TheRMMSisparticularlyeasytoreconfigurethankstoitsintegratedquick-couplingconnectorsdescribedinSection3.

EffectiveuseoftheRMMSrequires,TaskBasedDesignsoftware.Thissoftwaretakesasinputdescriptionsofthetaskandoftheavailablemanipulatormodules;itgeneratesasoutputamodularassemblyconfigurationoptimallysuitedtoperformthegiventask.Severaldifferentapproacheshavebeenusedsuccessfullytosolvesimpli-fiedinstancesofthiscomplicatedproblem.

Athirdimportantbuildingblockofarapidlydeployablemanipulatorsystemisaframeworkforthegenerationofcontrolsoftware.Toreducethecomplexityofsoftwaregenerationforreal-timesensor-basedcontrolsystems,asoftwareparadigmcalledsoftwareassemblyhasbeenproposedintheAdvancedManipulatorsLaboratoryatCMU.Thisparadigmcombinestheconceptofreusableandreconfigurablesoftwarecomponents,asissupportedbytheChimerareal-timeoperatingsystem[15],withagraphicaluserinterfaceandavisualprogramminglanguage,implementedinOnika

Althoughthesoftwareassemblyparadigmprovidesthesoftwareinfrastructureforrapidlyprogrammingmanipulatorsystems,itdoesnotsolvetheprogrammingproblemitself.Explicitprogrammingofsensor-basedmanipulatorsystemsiscumbersomeduetotheextensiveamountofdetailwhichmustbespecifiedfortherobottoperformthetask.Thesoftwaresynthesisproblemforsensor-basedrobotscanbesimplifieddramatically,byprovidingrobustroboticskills,thatis,encapsulatedstrategiesforaccomplishingcommontasksintherobotstaskdomain[11].Suchroboticskillscanthenbeusedatthetasklevelplanningstagewithouthavingtoconsideranyofthelow-leveldetails

Asanexampleoftheuseofarapidlydeployablesystem,consideramanipulatorinanuclearenvironmentwhereitmustinspectmaterialandspaceforradioactivecontamination,orassembleandrepairequipment.Insuchanenvironment,widelyvariedkinematic（e.g.,workspace）anddynamic（e.g.,speed,payload）performanceisrequired,andtheserequirementsmaynotbeknownapriori.Insteadofpreparingalargesetofdifferentmanipulatorstoaccomplishthesetasks—anexpensivesolution—onecanusearapidlydeployablemanipulatorsystem.Considerthefollowingscenario:

assoonasaspecifictaskisidentified,thetaskbaseddesignsoftwaredeterminesthetask.ThisoptimalconfigurationisthenassembledfromtheRMMSmodulesbyahumanor,inthefuture,possiblybyanothermanipulator.Theresultingmanipulatorisrapidlyprogrammedbyusingthesoftwareassemblyparadigmandourlibraryofroboticskills.Finally,themanipulatorisdeployedtoperformitstask.

Althoughsuchascenarioisstillfuturistic,thedevelopmentofthereconfigurablemodularmanipulatorsystem,describedinthispaper,isa