Accession Number:

ADA566180

Title:

MIMIC'D Abilities - Tools, Tool Changing, and Robotic Control

Descriptive Note:

Conference paper

Corporate Author:

ARMY TANK AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER WARREN MI

Personal Author(s):

• Gray, Jeremy
• Gunnett, Kenneth
• Peters, Douglas

Report Date:

2012-08-01

Pagination or Media Count:

8.0

Abstract:

Research is currently underway to improve controllability of high degree-of-freedome manipulators under a Phase II SBIR contract sponsored by the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development, and Engineering Center TARDEC. As part of this program, the authors have created new control methods as well as adapting tool changing technology onto a dexterous arm to look at controllability of various manipulator functions. In this paper, the authors describe the work completed under this program and describe the findings of this work in terms of how these technologies can be used to extend the capabilities of existing and newly developed robotic manipulators.

Descriptors:

• *MANIPULATORS
• *ROBOTICS
• ARMY RESEARCH
• AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS
• CONTRACTS
• CONTROL
• FUNCTIONS
• SKILLS
• SYMPOSIA
• TOOLS

Subject Categories:

• Cybernetics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE