Local path-planning of a 8-dof redundant robot for the nozzle dam installation/detachment of the nuclear power plants

  • Park, Ki C. (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Chang, Pyung H. (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Kim, Seung H. (Advanced Robotics Development Korea Automic Energy Research Institute)
  • Published : 1996.10.01

Abstract

The nozzle dam task is essentially needed to maintain and repair nuclear power plants. For this task, an 8-dof redundant robot is studied with a local path-planning method[l] which is effective to find the optimal joint path in the constrained environment. In this paper, the method[l] is improved practically with the weight matrix and efficient algorithm to find working set. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by simulation and animation.

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