Visual Servo Control for Automatic Line-Grasping of a Power Transmission Line Inspection Robot
GUO Weibin1,2, WANG Hongguang1, JIANG Yong1, SUN Peng1
1. The State Key Laboratory of Robotics, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China;
2. Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
郭伟斌, 王洪光, 姜勇, 孙鹏 . 一种输电线巡检机器人的自动抓线视觉伺服控制[J]. 机器人, 2012, 34(5): 620-627.DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1218.2012.00620.
GUO Weibin, WANG Hongguang, JIANG Yong, SUN Peng. Visual Servo Control for Automatic Line-Grasping of a Power Transmission Line Inspection Robot. ROBOT, 2012, 34(5): 620-627. DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1218.2012.00620.
To guarantee that the wheel can grasp the power line reliably when the wheel-arm inspection robot crosses obstacles automatically, an image based visual servo control algorithm for line-grasping is presented. The offset distance and declination of power line, defined in image space, are used for describing the changes of image features. Then, the position and orientation decoupling control algorithm is established. For the visual Jacobian is decided by the robot status and may be singular, therefore a fuzzy method is applied to robot control. The universes of fuzzy sets are specified by experiments. Then a two-layer fuzzy controller is formulated and an automatic line-grasping program is developed. In more than 100 experiments, the offset distance and declination errors of line grasping are less than 25 pixels and 2±, reliable line-grasping is realized, and the robot can grasp the power line in 40 s when crossing obstacles. The results show that the image based visual servo control algorithm is precise, reliable and efficient, and can satisfy the requirements of the accurate, high-speed and stable line-grasping tasks.
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