Coordinative motion control for different kind of manipulators using a fuzzy compensator

We describe a coordinative motion control based on the master/slave method for different kinds of manipulators. The master side consists of a pantagraph-type two link manipulator driven by a torque command, whereas the slave side is an industrial manipulator driven by a position command with a force/torque sensor. It is difficult to maintain a desired contact force by only a master/slave method. To maintain a desired contact force, a compensative position command is generated by using fuzzy reasoning with the force sensor information. The effectiveness is verified by experiments.