Fault tolerant operation of kinematically redundant manipulators for locked joint failures
Date
1997
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Maciejewski, Anthony A., author
Lewis, Christopher L., author
IEEE, publisher
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This paper studies the degree to which the kinematic redundancy of a manipulator may be utilized for failure tolerance. A redundant manipulator is considered to be fault tolerant with respect to a given task if it is guaranteed to be capable of performing the task after any one of its joints has failed and is locked in place. A method is developed for determining the necessary constraints which insure the failure tolerance of a kinematically redundant manipulator with respect to a given critical task. This method is based on estimating the bounding boxes enclosing the self-motion manifolds for a given set of critical task points. The intersection of these bounding boxes provides a set of artificial joint limits that may guarantee the reachability of the task points after a joint failure. An algorithm for dealing with the special case of 2-D self-motion surfaces is presented. These techniques are illustrated on a PUMA 560 that is used for a 3-D Cartesian positioning task.
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manipulator kinematics
Jacobian matrices
kinematically redundant
fault tolerance
manipulators
redundant systems