Intelligent Object Handling by Robot - A Fuzzy Approach

Abstract

Robot manipulators are required to handle variety of objects and the programmer is required to write explicit program steps to handle the objects depending upon their physical properties. This process is tedious and time consuming. It may become forbidding when robots will be required to perform more general purpose tasks. We propose a methodology to handle the objects in an intelligent manner, where programmer, while defining world coordinates, also states the physical properties of the objects. The intelligence provided with the system, depending upon action required and the object's properties, infers about the way the object is to be handled, thereby reduces the programming burden. A new teach pendent, which helps in defining world coordinates and properties of the objects, is also proposed to realize the methodology.