Abstract
Passive compliant joints with springs and dampers ensure a smooth contact with the surroundings, especially if robots are in contact with humans, but the passive compliant joints cannot determine precisely the position of the members of the joint or direction of the collision force. In this paper was proposed the structure of a passive compliant robotic joint with conductive silicone rubber elements as internal embedded sensors. The sensors can operate as absorbers of excessive external collision force instead of springs and dampers and can be used for some measurements. Therefore, this joint presents one type of safe robotic mechanisms with an internally measuring system. The sensors were made by press-curing from carbon-black filled silicone rubber which is an electro active material. Various compression tests of the sensors were done. The main task of this study is to investigate the application of a control algorithm for detecting the direction of the robotic joint angular rotation when subjected to an external collision force. Soft computing methodology, adaptive neuro fuzzy inference strategy (ANFIS), was used for the controller development. The simulation results presented in this paper show the effectiveness of the developed method.
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