Dynamic model and control for an omnidirectional mobile manipulator

Abstract

Mobile manipulation is a key capability to many robotic applications in construction, space, underwater, nuclear plant and home services. Dynamic modeling and trajectory control for a holonomic omnidirectional mobile manipulator are principle problems for mobile manipulation, and are presented in this paper. Considered the redundantly-actuated property of omnidirectional mobile platform, the kinematic model of the whole mobile manipulator is presented. Then, an integrated dynamic model for the system is developed by the kinematic model and Lagrangian formalism. According to the dynamic model, a modified inverse dynamic control is addressed to track the trajectories of the mobile platform and end-effector simultaneously. Then, the simulations results show the effectiveness of the proposed modeling and control approach. © 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.