Contour Moments Based Manipulation of Composite Rigid-Deformable Objects With Finite Time Model Estimation and Shape/Position Control
Jiaming Qi (Harbin Institute of Technology)
Guangfu Ma (Harbin Institute of Technology)
Jihong Zhu (TU Delft - Learning & Autonomous Control)
Peng Zhou (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Yueyong Lyu (Harbin Institute of Technology)
Haibo Zhang (Beijing Institute of Control Engineering)
David Navarro-Alarcon (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
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Abstract
The robotic manipulation of composite rigid-deformable objects (i.e., those with mixed nonhomogeneous stiffness properties) is a challenging problem with clear practical applications that, despite the recent progress in the field, it has not been sufficiently studied in the literature. To deal with this issue, in this article, we propose a new visual servoing method that has the capability to manipulate this broad class of objects (which varies from soft to rigid) with the same adaptive strategy. To quantify the object's infinite-dimensional configuration, our new approach computes a compact feedback vector of 2-D contour moments features. A sliding mode control scheme is then designed to simultaneously ensure the finite-time convergence of both the feedback shape error and the model estimation error. The stability of the proposed framework (including the boundedness of all the signals) is rigorously proved with Lyapunov theory. Detailed simulations and experiments are presented to validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. To the best of the author's knowledge, this is the first time that contour moments along with finite-time control have been used to solve this difficult manipulation problem.