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Learning Global Properties of Nonredundant Kinematic Mappings

Prediction Company Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA

Kenneth Kreutz-Delgado

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

The kinematic mapping x = f() is generally many to one. For nonredundant manipulators, this means that there are a finite num ber of configurations (joint angles) that will place the end-effector at a target location in the workspace. These correspond to pos tures of the manipulator, and each configuration lies on a specific solution branch. It is shown that for certain classes of revolute joint regional manipulators (those with no joint limits and having almost everywhere a constant number of inverse solutions in the workspace), the input-output data can be analyzed by clustering methods in order to determine the number and location of the so lution branches. As a practical consequence, the inverse kinematic mapping can be directly approximated by applying neural network or other learning-based methods to each branch separately.

The International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 17, No. 5, 547-560 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/027836499801700506


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