| Title |
Optimal Trajectory Planning of an Omni-directional Mobile Manipulator for Obstacle Avoidance |
| Authors |
김민수(Jae-Ho Kim) ; 성영휘(Sunnam Hwang) |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5370/KIEE.2023.72.8.952 |
| Keywords |
Omni-directional mobile robot; Mobile manipulator; Redundant system; Obstacle avoidance |
| Abstract |
The ultimate purpose of a mobile robot is to do some tasks in addition to moving to a desired point, so it is very natural for a mobile robot to be equipped with a manipulator. Among many types of mobile robots, omni-directional mobile robot has been very popular because it has advantages in trajectory planning and control. In this paper, we deal with an omni-directional mobile manipulator that consists of a four Mecanum wheeled mobile robot platform and a manipulator mounted on it. In general, it is very difficult to solve inverse kinematics for a mobile manipulator because it has infinite solutions. Omni-directional mobile robot platform can move in any direction and can rotate on a pivot in a plane, so we propose it to be modeled as a manipulator with two prismatic joints and one revolute joint. Then the overall omni-directional mobile manipulator can be considered as a manipulator with an (n+3) DOF manipulator if the mounted manipulator has n DOF. We propose a weighted pseudo-inverse based method to solve the inverse kinematics problem at velocity level for the omni-directional mobile manipulator. In our method, in addition to a primary task of following end-effector trajectory, a secondary task of obstacle avoidance is accomplished by maximizing a performance index that represents a distance between a link of the manipulator and an obstacle. Simulation results showed the feasibility of the proposed method. |