Teaching compliant motion strategies

Abstract

A description is given of a robot teaching system for compliant motion strategies, based on recent research in compliant motion planning. The teaching system accepts robot motion commands from a user, and attempts to build a compliant motion strategy from the specified motions. The teaching system has several advantages over previous robot teaching systems. The user is spared many low-level details, such as the specification of conditional tests, compliance parameters, and motion termination conditions. A compliant motion strategy, if found, is guaranteed to work despite uncertainty in the starting configuration of the robot and in robot sensing and control.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>