An automated method to calibrate industrial robot joint offset using virtual line-based single-point constraint approach

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 715-720

  Liu, Yong ^a,b   Xi, Ning ^c,d   Zhang, George ^e   Li, Xiongzi ^e   Chen, Heping ^e   Zhang, Chi ^a   Jeffery, Michael J ^a   Fuhlbrigge, Thomas A ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c SHENYANG INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^d Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ^*  (United States)

^e ABB INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Offset calibration; Robot; Single point constraint; Virtual lines based

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED CALIBRATION; AUTOMATED METHODS; CALIBRATION SYSTEM; HIGH PRECISION; LASER LINES; LASER POINTER; LASER TRACKER; MEAN ERRORS; OFFSET CALIBRATION; OPTIMIZATION MODELS; PARAMETER IDENTIFICATION; POSITION RESOLUTION; POSITION-SENSITIVE DETECTORS; ROBOT LOCALIZATION; ROBOT POSITIONS; WORKCELL;

AUTOMATION; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 76249097439     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354312     Document Type: Conference Paper

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