Several advanced control laws are available for complex robotic systems such as humanoid robots and mobile manipulators. Controls are usually developed for locomotion or for manipulation purposes. Resulting motions are usually exe- cuted sequentially...
The purpose of this work is to move a step toward the automation of industrial plants through full exploitation of autonomous robots. A planning algorithm is proposed to move different objects in desired configurations with heterogeneous robots such as...
A software and control architecture for a humanoid robot is a complex and large project, which involves a team of developers/researchers to be coordinated and requires many hard design choices. If such project has to be done in a very limited time,...
In this work we present WALK-MAN a humanoid platform which has been developed to operate in realistic unstructured environment and demonstrate new skills including powerful manipulation, robust balanced locomotion, high strength capabilities and...
Abstract - Moving objects with autonomous robots is a wide topic that includes single-arm pick-and-place tasks, object regrasping, object passing between two or more arms in the air or using support surfaces such as tables and similar. Each task has...
This paper presents a high degrees-of-freedom humanoid CoMan opens a door with an impedance control strategy performing multiple subtasks in a task-priority hierarchy. The humanoid system is integrated with a visual perception, soft hands, and graphical...
With the purpose of achieving a desired interaction performance for our compliant humanoid robot (COMAN), in this paper we propose a semi-autonomous control framework and evaluate it experimentally in a valve turning setup. The control structure...
Abstract— In this paper, a hierarchical control architecture incorporating a novel dual-arm impedance controller is proposed and experimentally evaluated in a valve turning setup. Proposed control architecture incorporates various con trol/interface...
The recent DARPA Robotics Challenge trials demonstrated many of the barriers of the current robotic technology, the complexity of the system development and the effort required to reach the performances needed to address practical tasks within...
This paper presents a set of plugins for the Gazebo simulator that enables the interoperability between a robot, controlled using the YARP framework, and Gazebo itself. Gazebo is an open-source simulator that can handle different Dynamic Engines...
In this work we present a modular, robust and user-friendly Pilot Interface meant to control humanoid robots in rescue scenarios during dangerous missions. YARP is used to communicate to low-level hardware components and to interconnect control modules...
ASCARI is a simulator dedicated to distributed and cooperative mobile robotics systems, designed as a framework for implementing and testing multi-agent collaborative algorithms, especially suited to evaluate algorithms’ performances with a non-perfect...
In this paper the problem of assigning tasks to a set of mobile and heterogeneous robots based on their ability and their costs to accomplish a task is considered. Moreover, the dynamics of the robot and a private cost function to be optimized together...