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Efficient Task and Path Planning for Maintenance Automation Using a Robot System


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The research and development of intelligent automation solutions is a ground-breaking point for the factory of the future. A promising and challenging mission is the use ...Show More

Abstract:

The research and development of intelligent automation solutions is a ground-breaking point for the factory of the future. A promising and challenging mission is the use of autonomous robot systems to automate tasks in the field of maintenance. For this purpose, the robot system must be able to plan autonomously the different manipulation tasks and the corresponding paths. Basic requirements are the development of algorithms with a low computational complexity and the possibility to deal with environmental uncertainties. In this paper, an approach is presented, which is especially suited to solve the problem of maintenance automation. For this purpose, offline data from CAD is combined with online data from an RGBD vision system via a probabilistic filter, to compensate uncertainties from offline data. For planning the different tasks, a method is explained, which uses a symbolic description, founded on a novel sampling-based method to compute the disassembly space. For path planning, we use global state-of-the-art algorithms with a method that allows the adaption of the exploration stepsize in order to reduce the planning time. Every method is experimentally validated and discussed.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering ( Volume: 15, Issue: 3, July 2018)
Page(s): 1205 - 1215
Date of Publication: 04 December 2017

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