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Sufficient Conditions For Admittance To Ensure Planar Force-Assembly In Multi-Point Frictionless Contact, Shuguang Huang, Joseph M. Schimmels
Sufficient Conditions For Admittance To Ensure Planar Force-Assembly In Multi-Point Frictionless Contact, Shuguang Huang, Joseph M. Schimmels
Mechanical Engineering Faculty Research and Publications
An important issue in the development of force guidance assembly strategies is the specification of an appropriate admittance control law. This paper identifies procedures for selecting the appropriate admittance to achieve reliable planar force-guided assembly for multi-point contact cases. Conditions that restrict the admittance behavior for each of the various types of two-point contact are presented. These conditions ensure that the motion that results from contact reduces part misalignment for each case. We show that, for bounded misalignments, if the conditions are satisfied for a finite number of contact configurations, the conditions ensure that force guidance is achieved for all …
Efficient Contact State Graph Generation For Assembly Applications, Feng Pan, Joseph M. Schimmels
Efficient Contact State Graph Generation For Assembly Applications, Feng Pan, Joseph M. Schimmels
Mechanical Engineering Faculty Research and Publications
An important aspect in the design of many automated assembly strategies is the ability to automatically generate the set of contact states that may occur during an assembly task. In this paper, we present an efficient means of constructing the set of all geometrically feasible contact states that may occur within a bounded set of misalignments (bounds determined by robot inaccuracy). This set is stored as a graph, referred to as an Assembly Contact State Graph (ACSG), which indicates neighbor relationships between feasible states. An ACSG is constructed without user intervention in two stages. In the first stage, all hypothetical …
Admittance Selection For Planar Force-Guided Assembly For Single-Point Contact With Friction, Shuguang Huang, Joseph M. Schimmels
Admittance Selection For Planar Force-Guided Assembly For Single-Point Contact With Friction, Shuguang Huang, Joseph M. Schimmels
Mechanical Engineering Faculty Research and Publications
This paper identifies procedures for selecting the appropriate admittance to achieve reliable planar force-guided assembly for single-point frictional contact cases. A set of conditions that are imposed on the admittance matrix is presented. These conditions ensure that the motion that results from contact reduces part misalignment. We show that, for bounded misalignments, if an admittance satisfies the misalignment-reduction conditions at a finite number of contact configurations and a given coefficient of friction /spl mu//sub M/) then the admittance will also ensure that the conditions are satisfied at all intermediate configurations for all coefficients less than /spl mu//sub M/.