A pose/force symmetric coordination method for a redundant dual-arm robot

Abstract

Purpose This paper aims to develop a pose/force coordination method for a redundant dual-arm robot to achieve a symmetric coordination task. Design/methodology/approach A novel control strategy of dual-arm coordination is proposed that associates pose coordination with force coordination. The spatial in-parallel spring and damping model is built to regulate the relative pose error of two end-effectors in real time, and force coordination factor is introduced to realize the dynamic distribution of loadings to limit the object’s internal force in real time. Findings The proposed method was verified on a real dual-arm robot platform. The symmetric coordination task is performed and the experiment results show that a good behavior on the regulation of the relative pose errors between two arms to achieve the object’s trajectory tracking, and the distribution of the two end-effectors’ loadings to limit the object’s internal force. Originality/value The benefits of the proposed method are to improve the object’s tracking performance and avoid the object damage during the symmetric coordination task.