Abstract
Energy-aware motion planning for robotic systems has received increasing attention during recent years, due to environmental and economic reasons. This letter presents a framework for defining and solving different types of optimal control problems for variable stiffness actuated robots. These robots can store and release energy during task execution, but motion planning and control are made difficult by the presence of several physical constraints. In the optimal control problems formulated in this letter, constraints on power and energy are explicitly accounted for, while minimizing energy consumption or maximizing performance. The validity of our approach has been tested on a ball-throwing case study, for which simulation and experimental results are presented and discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 8598982 |
| Pages (from-to) | 330-337 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 1 2019 |
Keywords
- energy and environment-aware automation
- motion and path planning
- Optimization and optimal control
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Biomedical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Control and Optimization
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Science Applications
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
