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Tesi etd-11132010-122557


Tipo di tesi
Tesi di laurea specialistica
Autore
CARADONNA, GIONATAN
Indirizzo email
jonathan.caradonna@gmail.com
URN
etd-11132010-122557
Titolo
Design of a high-level software architecture for real-time advanced motion control of Variable Stiffness Actuators and non-invasive observation of variable stiffness
Dipartimento
INGEGNERIA
Corso di studi
INGEGNERIA DELLA AUTOMAZIONE
Relatori
relatore Prof. Bicchi, Antonio
tutor Ing. Schiavi, Riccardo
tutor Ing. Grioli, Giorgio
controrelatore Ing. Pollini, Lorenzo
Parole chiave
  • High-Level Software Architecture
  • Real-Time
  • Motion Control
  • Stiffness Observation
  • Impedance Observation
  • Physical Human-Robot Interaction
  • Actuators
  • Variable Stiffness Mechanisms
Data inizio appello
17/12/2010
Consultabilità
Non consultabile
Data di rilascio
17/12/2050
Riassunto
In this thesis a novel high-level real-time control architecture for VSAs (Variable Stiffness Actuators) is presented and discussed as well as a new non-invasive model-less methodology to estimate the stiffness at the output joint shaft.
VSAs, and VIAs (Variable impedance Actuators) at large, are growing more and more popular in robotics, and many different prototypes have been produced in the recent years by both the research and industrial communities. In comparison with off-the-shelf electromechanical actuators, VSAs present the possibility to control the mechanical stiffness at the output joint shaft, thus leading to the need of new performance and classification criteria, measuring systems and more generally control policies.
Thanks to the adoption of the CANopen model at the ISO/OSI application layer, the proposed controller, developed under Linux-Xenomai, is able to real-time communicate over CANbus to retrieve sensor related information such as encoder positions, and recruit to the motor drivers the current related commands. Moreover, mainly thanks to the modularity and the multi-process real-time arrangement of the overall architectural framework, it is able to precisely estimate and control the stiffness of the particular mechanical device only relying on force and positioning data, with no reference to the current mechanical implementation or its model. Some experiments illustrating the effectiveness of the overall architecture are carried out and results are discussed as well as some considerations related to the overall reliability and accuracy of the estimator with respect to the external disturbances and measuring errors.
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