Robotic Assembly Research at Surrey

For many years people have been trying to raise the level at which assembly robots are programmed so that the programmer can issue commands in a human friendly way. Currently available industrial robots are programmed in terms of spatial trajectories making them critically susceptible to variations in the locations of objects in their environment. We have shown that by making force control the primary mode of operation it is possible to deduce assembly strategies that apply to whole classes of objects, thus raising the level of programming abstraction, whilst at the same time providing robustness of operation in the face of spatial uncertainty. A downloadable journal paper on this subject is available here. Future work will concentrate on the automatic synthesis of these strategies using a force-reflecting joystick and an abstract virtual environment.

MSRR people involved with robotic assembly are Dr Graham Deacon (unofficial homepage).

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