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Planning considerations for a roving robot with arm

Abstract: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is engaged in a robot research program. The program is aimed at the development and demonstration of technology required to integrate a variety of robntic functions (locomotion, manipulation, sensing and perception, decision making, and man-robot interaction) into a working robot unit operating in a real world environment and dealing with both man-made and natural objects. This paper briefly describes the hardware and software system architecture of the robot breadboard and summarizes the developments to date. The content of the paper is focused on the unique planning considerations involved in incorporating a manipulator as part of an autonomous robot system. In particular, the effects of system architecture, arm trajectory calculations, and arm dynamics and control are discussed in the context of planning arm motion in complex and changing sensory and workspace environments.

The Little Robot System

Abstract: : The paper describes the Little Robot System which provides a medium size four degree of freedom six axis robot which is controlled by the PDP-6 computer through the programming language LISP.

Design of a low cost, general purpose robot

Abstract: This paper reports on current work at the University of California at Berkeley whose goal is the design and implementation of a relatively inexpensive, but versatile, experimental, computer-controlled robot suitable for use in either a research or educational setting. The Berkeley robot, dubbed Jason, is nearing comoletion and hardware tests are now being conducted. Jason is designed so as to permit it to navigate and manipulate simple objects in a real-world environment. It uses a variety of sensory-motor and communication devices; among these are an ultrasonic range, motion, and material detector, an isolated-word speech recognizer, a limited speech synthesizer, six inexpensive proximity detectors, and two arms for simple manipulation, all of which are mounted on a platform chassis. The robot vehicle is remotely controlled, using radio telemetry, by a time-shared, virtual memory, HP-3000 mini-computer, utilizing adaptive learning programs. Jason was primarily constructed to explore: (1) how an inexpensive, real-world robot system might be designed, and (2) what problems a robot "encounters" and "creates" while performing tasks in a real-world environment populated by humans. The results of this research will hopefully enable us to design and build better (more reliable and safer) robots at a modest price that are still capable of performing a variety of interesting and useful tasks.