Automatic Design of Task-specific Robotic Arms

May 2018

Automatic Design of Task-specific Robotic Arms

Authors:

Ruta Desai, Margarita Safonova, Katharina Mülling, and Stelian Coros

Abstract:

We present an interactive, computational design system for creating custom robotic arms given high-level task descriptions and environmental constraints. Various task requirements can be encoded as desired motion trajectories for the robot arm's end-effector. Given such end-effector trajectories, our system enables on-demand design of custom robot arms using a library of modular and reconfigurable parts such as actuators and connecting links. By searching through the combinatorial set of possible arrangements of these parts, our method generates a functional, as-simple-as-possible robot arm that is capable of tracking the desired trajectories. We demonstrate our system's capabilities by creating robot arm designs in simulation, for various trajectory following scenarios.
@workshop{Desai-2018-126480,
author = {Ruta Desai And Margarita Safonova And Katharina Mülling And Stelian Coros},
title = {Automatic Design of Task-specific Robotic Arms},
booktitle = {Proceedings of ICRA '18 Workshop on Autonomous Robot Design},
year = {2018},
month = {May},
}
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