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System and Software Architectures in Robotics
Domain specific architectures provide enhanced support for specific application areas, compared to software architectures in general as in the previous item. The LUCAS partners have been active for several years within control system architectures for industrial robots. This is related to the ”Languages and Automation” item above since robots are used as components in factory automation systems, but the focus here is on the programming and control issues for the robot as such.
Robots differ from other types of automation in due to flexibility, user programming (geometries, object manipulation), system programming (optimized real-time motion control), etc., motivating a domain-specific approach. On the other hand, it is of course important to support integration of robots with their surrounding systems, which is an ongoing topic within LUCAS. This is related to the work on domain specific languages and our approach to real-time Java.
In this perspective, the robotics laboratory, located at the Department of Automatic Control, serves as a common demonstrator platform for several of the LUCAS projects. The lab has three industrial robots provided by ABB Robotics. Two of these are reconfigured for experiments in both control and programming, whereas the third robot includes the complete ABB software that has been extended for external sensor based control and are located at ABB in Västerås.
See also Productive Robotics @ LTH.
People
tekn. Anders Blomdell, Prof. Rolf Johansson, Dr. Klas Nilsson, Lic. Eng Tomas Olsson, Dr. Anders Robertsson
Contact: Dr. Klas Nilsson
| Funded projects | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | Funder |
| Mobile Autonomous Systems | x | NUTEK | |||||||||
| Complex Technological Systems | x | x | x | VINNOVA | |||||||
| FlexAA | x | EU | |||||||||
| SIARAS | x | x | x | EU |
Demos and applications
Inverted Pendulum
LJRT - Lund Java-based Real Time
Virtual visual servoing
Related undergraduate courses
Computer Mechatronics
Publications
2005
- Martin Otter, Karl-Erik Årzén, Isolde Dressler StateGraph-A Modelica Library for Hierarchical State Machines In Proceedings of European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering - ESCAPE 15, May 2005
- Anders Blomdell, Gunnar Bolmsjö, Torgny Brogårdh, Per Cederberg, Mats Isaksson, Rolf Johansson, Mathias Haage, Klas Nilsson, Magnus Olsson, Tomas Olsson Extending an Industrial Root Controller—Implementation and Applications of a Fast Open Sensor Interface IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 12:3, pp. 85-94, September 2005.
- Klas Nilsson, Rolf Johansson, Anders Robertsson, Rainer Bischoff, Torgny Brogårdh, Martin Hägele Productive Robots and the SMErobot Project In Book of Abstracts of Third Swedish Workshop on Autonomous Robotics, FOI 2005, Stockholm, September 1-2, 2005, September 2005.
2004
- Tomas Olsson Feedback Control and Sensor Fusion of Vision and Force Licentiate thesis ISRN LUTFD2/TFRT--3235--SE, October 2004. Department of Automatic Control, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Tomas Olsson, Rolf Johansson, Anders Robertsson Flexible Force-Vision Control for Surface Following using Multiple Cameras In Proceedings of 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2004, pp. 798-803, Sendai, Japan, October 2004.
- Haage, Mathias Flexible Interaction with Productive Robots in Partly Unstructured Environments Licentiate Thesis 2, 2004, LU-CS-LIC:2004-2, ISSN 1652-4691
- Rolf Johansson, Anders Robertsson, Klas Nilsson, Torgny Brogårdh, Per Cederberg, Magnus Olsson, Tomas Olsson, Gunnar Bolmsjö Sensor Integration in Task-level Programming and Industrial Robotic Task Execution Control Industrial Robot: An International Journal, 31:3, pp. 284-296, 2004.
2003
- Alcocer, A., Robertsson, A., Valera, A. and Johansson, R. Force Estimation and Control in Robot Manipulators In 7th Symposium on Robot Control (SYROCO’03), September 1-3, pp. 31-36, Wroclaw, Poland, September 2003
- Johansson, R. and Robertsson. A. Robotic Force Control using Observer-based Strict Positive Real Impedance Control In Proc. of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation,Taipei, Taiwan, September 14-19, 2003
- Olsson, T., Bengtsson, J., Robertsson, A. and Johansson, R. Visual Position Tracking using Dual Quaternions with Hand-Eye Motion Constraints In Proc. of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation , pp. 3491-3496, Taipei, Taiwan, September 14-19, 2003
2002
- Johan Bengtsson and Mathias Haage and Rolf Johansson Variable Time Delays in Visual Servoing and Task Execution Control Proceedings of the 2nd IFAC Conference on Mechatronic Systems, 2002
2000
- Bengtsson, J., Ahlstrand, A., Nilsson, K., Robertsson, A., Olsson, M., Heyden, A., and Johansson, J., A robot playing scrabble using visual feedback In 6th Int. IFAC Symposium on Robot Control (SYROCO 2000), Vienna, Austria, September 2000
- Mathias Haage and Klas Nilsson On the Scalability of Visualization in Manufacturing Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 1999
- Robertsson, A., Valera, A. Nilsson, K., and Johansson, R. On-line reconfiguration of real-time robot motion and force control In 6th Int. IFAC Symposium on Robot Control ( SYROCO 2000), Vienna, Austria, September 2000
- Johansson, Rolf, Robertsson, A., Nilsson, K. and Verhaegen, M. State-space system identification of robot manipulator dynamics Mechatronics, 10, pp. 403 418, 2000
Master Thesis Projects
2005
- Cooperative Robots by Chin Yuan Chong at Inhouse
- Teleoperation and Autonomous Navigation of a Mobile Robot Using Wireless Vision Feedback by Jens Graf at Inhouse
2004
- Deployment of embedded controllers on a Linux-based real-time Java platform by Johan Rix
2002
- Virtual Environment for Development of Visual Servoing Control Algorithms by José Luis de Mena
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