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Integrated Visual Servoing and Force Control

The Task Frame Approach

  • First book about an important paradigm for sensor-based robotics: see and touch!

Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR, volume 8)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Introduction

    • Johan Baeten, Joris De Schutter
    Pages 1-4
  3. Literature Survey

    • Johan Baeten, Joris De Schutter
    Pages 5-15
  4. Framework

    • Johan Baeten, Joris De Schutter
    Pages 17-54
  5. Classification

    • Johan Baeten, Joris De Schutter
    Pages 55-72
  6. Visual Servoing: A 3D Alignment Task

    • Johan Baeten, Joris De Schutter
    Pages 73-88
  7. Planar Contour Following of Continuous Curves

    • Johan Baeten, Joris De Schutter
    Pages 89-103
  8. Planar Contour Following at Corners

    • Johan Baeten, Joris De Schutter
    Pages 105-114
  9. Additional Experriments

    • Johan Baeten, Joris De Schutter
    Pages 115-122
  10. Conclusion

    • Johan Baeten, Joris De Schutter
    Pages 123-127
  11. Appendix A: Derivations

    • Johan Baeten, Joris De Schutter
    Pages 129-141
  12. Appendix B: Contour Fitting

    • Johan Baeten, Joris De Schutter
    Pages 143-153
  13. Appendix C: Experimental Validitation of Curvature Computation

    • Johan Baeten, Joris De Schutter
    Pages 155-158
  14. Appendix D: Image Processing Implementation on DSP

    • Johan Baeten, Joris De Schutter
    Pages 159-160
  15. Appendix E: Technical Documentation

    • Johan Baeten, Joris De Schutter
    Pages 161-165
  16. Back Matter

About this book

Sight and touch are two elementary, but highly complementary senses - for humans as well as for robots. This monograph develops an integrated vision/force control approach for robotics, combining the advantages of both types of sensors while overcoming their individual drawbacks. It shows how integrated vision/force control improves the task quality in the sense of increased accuracy and execution velocity and widens the range of feasible tasks. The unique feature of this work lies in its comprehensive treatment of the problem from the theoretical development of the various schemes down to the real-time implementation of interaction control algorithms on an industrial robot. The presented approach and its potential impact on the performance of the next generation of robots is starting to be recognized by major manufacturers worldwide.

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"This monograph develops an integrated vision/force control approach for robotics, combining the advantages of both types of sensors while overcoming their individual drawbacks. It shows how the integrated vision/force control improves the task quality in the sense of increased accuracy and execution velocity, and widens the range of feasible tasks. The unique feature of this work lies in its comprehensive treatment of the problem from the theoretical development of the various schemes down to the real-time implementation of interaction control algorithms on industrial robots."

"Modern Robotics has its foundation on this base: the analysis and design of artificial devices that suitably ‘act’ by ‘thinking’ on what they can ‘sense’. … The book by Baeten and De Schutter has the merit to be the first monograph on this topic … . The second merit of the work is to report a large number of experimental results … . The writing style is clear and concise, hence the contents and derivations are easy to follow." (Ciro Natale, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Vol. 16 (7), 2006)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Industrial Sciences and Technology, Division Automation, Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg, Diepenbeek, Belgium

    Johan Baeten

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering Division of Production Engineering, Machine Design & Automation (PMA), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven (Heverlee), Belgium

    Joris Schutter

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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