Robot Skills: Design of a Constraint-Based Methodology and Software Support (Robot vaardigheden: Ontwerp van een beperkingsgebaseerde methodologie en software ondersteuning) KU Leuven
The days when robots were only used to move their endpoint from point Ato B, passing through point C, safely hidden behind a fence, are over. Nowadays robots have to grasp objects, move them around, manipulate them using two arms, while keeping controlled distances from humans and fragile objects or even during physical interaction with humans. Furthermore, all these tasks have to be executed as optimally as possible. Six degrees-of-freedom ...