Kinematics modeling and experimental verification of baxter robot

Zhangfeng Ju, Chenguang Yang*, Hongbin Ma

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The Baxter® humanoid robot made by Rethink Robotics™ offers users an affordable platform with guaranteed safety for both academic and industrial applications. The platform provides the users a good opportunity to carry out research on dualarm robot manipulation and vision based control. For simulation of the Baxter® robot, a proper kinematic and dynamic model should be built. The Baxter robot uses URDF file to describe the robot kinematics, i.e., the relationship between adjacent joint and link. Consider the large difference between the structure of URDF and the conventional Denavit-Hartenburg(DH) notations which are widely used in robotics literature, we perform rigorous theoretic analysis of kinematics of Baxter® robot including all limbs. A kinematics model has been built following DH convention, and has been implemented in the MATLAB Robotics Toolbox. Extensive comparison between simulation and experimental results has verified the validity of the kinematic model.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 33rd Chinese Control Conference, CCC 2014
EditorsShengyuan Xu, Qianchuan Zhao
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages8518-8523
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9789881563842
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Sept 2014
EventProceedings of the 33rd Chinese Control Conference, CCC 2014 - Nanjing, China
Duration: 28 Jul 201430 Jul 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 33rd Chinese Control Conference, CCC 2014
ISSN (Print)1934-1768
ISSN (Electronic)2161-2927

Conference

ConferenceProceedings of the 33rd Chinese Control Conference, CCC 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityNanjing
Period28/07/1430/07/14

Keywords

  • Baxter® robot
  • DH convention
  • Simulink model

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