Extensive manipulation capabilities and reliable behavior at autonomous robot assembly
Tim Christian Lueth, Ulrich Rembold · 2002
Different powerful extensions and improvements of the control architecture of an autonomous robot are presented. They are used to increase the reliability of robot assembly and to reach a sufficient behavior. The decision to use autonomous assembly robots in an industrial manufacturing setting depends mainly on the reliability of such a system and the extension of its manipulation capabilities. The Karlsruhe Autonomous Mobile Robot (KAMRO) is a robot system that is able to take on, and to execute, assembly tasks autonomously. Although the robot was able to work without human intervention within a limited scope, the reliability of the system was unfortunately not adequate for large-scale applications. This paper describes how the reliability has been improved and which experiments were performed to evaluate the concept.>