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Autocalibrated Gravity Compensation for 3DoF Impedance Haptic Devices

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Autocalibrated Gravity Compensation for 3DoF Impedance Haptic Devices
Abstract. The apparent mass of haptic device end-effector depends on its position inside the workspace. This paper presents a recursive algorithm to detect effective direction of gravity force, and to automatically estimate the apparent mass of the end-effector when placed at the vertices of a cubic grid contained into the device workspace. Then an on-line technique is proposed to actively compensate gravity, exploiting trilinear interpolation to compute an estimate of end-effector apparent mass in any position of the workspace. Experiments have been performed with three different haptic devices, and results shown that the apparent mass of the end-effector is compensated almost homogeneously with respect to its position in the workspace.
Alessandro Formaglio, Marco Fei, Sara Mulatto, Mau
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Type Conference
Year 2008
Where HAPTICS
Authors Alessandro Formaglio, Marco Fei, Sara Mulatto, Maurizio de Pascale, Domenico Prattichizzo
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