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In robot manipulators, optical incremental encoders are widely used as the transducers to monitor joint position and velocity information. With incremental encoder, positional information is determined as discrete data relative to a reference (home) position. However, velocity information can only be deduced by processing the position data. In this paper, a method of using a neural network to estimate the velocity information of robotic joint from discrete position versus time data is proposed and evaluated. The architecture of the neural net and the training methodology are presented and discussed.
This approach is then applied to estimate the joint velocity of a SCARA robot while performing an electronic component assembly task. Based on computer simulations, comparison of the accuracy of the neural network estimator with two other well established velocity estimation algorithms are made. The neural net approach can maintain good performance even in the presence of measurement noises.
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Chan, S.P. Velocity Estimation for Robot Manipulators Using Neural Network. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems 23, 147–163 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008022430399
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