HIERARCHICAL PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION OF ROBOT REACHABLE WORKSPACE

Jing Yang, Patrick Dymond, Michael Jenkin

2009

Abstract

Estimating a robot’s reachable workspace is a fundamental problem in robotics. For simple kinematic chains within an empty environment this computation can be relatively straightforward. For mobile kinematic structures and cluttered environments, the problem becomes more challenging. An efficient probabilistic method for workspace estimation is developed by applying a hierarchical strategy and developing extensions to a probabilistic motion planner. Rather than treating each of the degrees of freedom (DOFs) ‘equally’, a hierarchical representation is used to maximize the volume of the robot’s workspace that is identified as reachable for each probe of the environment. Experiments with a simulated mobile manipulator demonstrate that the hierarchical approach is an effective alternative to the use of an estimation process based on the use of a traditional probabilistic planner.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Yang J., Dymond P. and Jenkin M. (2009). HIERARCHICAL PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION OF ROBOT REACHABLE WORKSPACE . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-674-000-9, pages 60-66. DOI: 10.5220/0002205600600066

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco09,
author={Jing Yang and Patrick Dymond and Michael Jenkin},
title={HIERARCHICAL PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION OF ROBOT REACHABLE WORKSPACE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2009},
pages={60-66},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002205600600066},
isbn={978-989-674-000-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - HIERARCHICAL PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION OF ROBOT REACHABLE WORKSPACE
SN - 978-989-674-000-9
AU - Yang J.
AU - Dymond P.
AU - Jenkin M.
PY - 2009
SP - 60
EP - 66
DO - 10.5220/0002205600600066