Nonholonomic Rolling Nonprehensile Manipulation Primitive
Document Type
Contribution to Books
Publication Date
2022
Abstract
This chapter reviews the problem of nonholonomic rolling in nonprehensile manipulation tasks through two challenging and illustrative examples: the robotic hula-hoop and the ballbot system. The hula-hoop consists of an actuated stick and an unactuated hoop. First, the corresponding kinematic model is derived. Second, the dynamic model is derived through the Lagrange-D’Alembert equations. Then a control strategy is designed to rotate the hoop at some desired constant speed whereas positioning it over a desired point on the stick surface. A stability analysis, which guarantees ultimate boundedness of all signals of interest, is carried out. The ballbot is an underactuated and nonholonomic constrained mobile robot whose upward equilibrium point must be stabilised by active controls. Coordinate-invariant equations of motion are derived for the ballbot. The linearised equations of motion are then derived, followed by the detailed controllability analysis. Excluding the rotary degree of freedom of the ball in the inertial vertical direction, the linear system turns out to be controllable. It follows that the nonlinear system is locally controllable, and a proportional-derivative type controller is designed to locally exponentially stabilise the upward equilibrium point and the translation of the ball. Numerical simulations for these two examples illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods. This chapter is based on the works presented in [1,2,3,4].
Publication Information
Gutierrez-Giles, Alejandro; Satici, Aykut C.; Donaire, Alejandro; Ruggiero, Fabio; Lippiello, Vincenzo; and Siciliano, Bruno. (2022). "Nonholonomic Rolling Nonprehensile Manipulation Primitive". In B. Siciliano and F. Ruggiero (Eds.), Robot Dynamic Manipulation: Perception of Deformable Objects and Nonprehensile Manipulation Control (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics series, Volume 144, pp. 159-205). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93290-9_7
Comments
Robot Dynamic Manipulation: Perception of Deformable Objects and Nonprehensile Manipulation Control is volume 144 of the Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics book series.