Dynamic Collision and Deadlock Avoidance for Multiple Robotic Manipulators
- A flexible operation of multiple robotic manipulators operating in a dynamic environment requires online trajectory planning to ensure collision-free trajectories. In this work, we propose a real-time capable motion control algorithm, based on nonlinear model predictive control, which accounts for static and dynamic obstacles. The proposed algorithm is realized in a distributed scheme, where each robot optimizes its own trajectory with respect to the related objective and constraints.We propose a novel approach for collision avoidance between multiple robotic manipulators, where each robot accounts for the predicted movement of the neighboring robots. Additionally, we propose a method to reliably detect and resolve deadlocks occurring in a setup of multiple robotic manipulators.We validate our approach on pick and place scenarios involving multiple robotic manipulators operating in a common workspace in a realistic simulation environment set up in Gazebo. The robots are controlled using the Robot Operating System. Our approach scales up to 4 manipulators and computes a path for each robot in a simultaneous pick and place operation in 94% of all investigated cases without deadlock detection and 100 % of cases with the proposed deadlock resolution algorithm. In contrast, the investigated conventional path planners, such as PRM, PRM*, CHOMP and RRTConnect, successfully plan a trajectory in at most 54% of all investigated cases for a simultaneous operation of 4 robotic manipulators hindering their application in setups of multiple manipulators.
Author: | Nigora GafurORCiD, Gajanan KanagalingamORCiD, Achim WagnerORCiD, Martin RuskowskiORCiD |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-70985 |
ISSN: | 2169-3536 |
Parent Title (English): | IEEE Access |
Document Type: | Article |
Language of publication: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2022/05/04 |
Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
Publishing Institution: | Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau |
Creating Corporation: | Technische Universität Kaiserslautern |
Contributing Corporation: | Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft für Künstliche Intelligenz |
Date of the Publication (Server): | 2023/01/12 |
Tag: | multiple robotic manipulators |
GND Keyword: | robotic manipulators; collision avoidance; distributed model predictive control; motion control; deadlock; ROS |
Issue: | 10, 2022, 55766 - 55781 |
Page Number: | 16 |
Source: | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9779146 |
Faculties / Organisational entities: | Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Maschinenbau und Verfahrenstechnik |
DDC-Cassification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau |
MSC-Classification (mathematics): | 93-XX SYSTEMS THEORY; CONTROL (For optimal control, see 49-XX) |
Collections: | Open-Access-Publikationsfonds |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons 4.0 - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitung (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) |