Questions tagged [force]
Quantity causing acceleration in the state space of a mechanical system.
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Small 6 Axis Force Torque Sensor
currently I need to install an suitable 6 Axis Force Torque Sensor on my Robotic arm. It has to be small beacause it will be mounted on this Robot: https://www.wlkata.com/en-de/pages/pg-mirobot-intro
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How are exoskeletons controlled?
It is my understanding that there are 3 fundamental control methods : velocity, position and torque.
In exoskeletons meant to augment an healthy user's strength, a typical control method used is ...
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How to compute the force applied to point P given the torque registered by the sensor?
I have the following set up:
I want to understand how to compute the force that is being applied to the F_knife point given the Force/Torque registered by the sensor at T_Sensor. The position vector ...
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Principal approach to control force of an electrically driven friction based griper
I would like to build a gripper that can pick and place irregularly shaped objects, for example, vegetables. I'd like to grasp the object with enough force so that it does not slip form the jaws, but ...
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How to find coefficient of friction that will maximize torque?
When using DC motors with a drive wheel (aka "direct drive") to propel a vehicle (e.g. an RC car), force and torque play a role in how efficiently that motor's power is transferred into ...
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How to Implement a Physically Human-Controlled Robotic Arm?
I'm a complete beginner in robotics other than FIRST competitions at my school. I wanted to make a robotic arm that works by a person physically moving the end-effector in 3D space and the robot ...
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Force sensors output when inclined
So here is the context:
I am working on a motorcycle simulator. It consists of a motorcycle frame mounted on different actuators (see picture on the left).
In particular, the two actuators at the ...
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Computation of centrifugal and Coriolis matrix
So I have a seesaw-cart electromechanical system which I want to control. It has 2-DOF (the angle of the seesaw $\varphi$ and the cart position $s$).
I used the Euler-Lagrange method to get my ...
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IMU gravity sensing
How are IMUs used to sense the direction of gravity? I have read a number of articles that talk about using IMU for orientation of flying robotics but I do not understand how. Could someone explain ...
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Calculate Torques & Forces From Jacobian Matrix
Dear Robotics Stack Exchange,
I am trying to calculate the torques and forces for a 2DOF robot.
I’m used the partial differentiation method to find the Jacobian matrix. I managed to find the ...
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Center of Mass of a Box
If I have the following area-split box:
Depending on the mass distribution of the box, the center of mass (CM) could be inside the light gray area labeled A, the red area labeled B, the blue area ...
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Force-torque sensor reading when a robot is stationary
Let's say I have a robot arm with a force-torque sensor on the wrist, between the final motor and the gripper. If the arm and wrist are stationary, then what would the reading on the sensor be?
I know ...
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Impedance Control vs Position Control
I have been reading up on impedance control, and several sources have stated that it is much safer than position control. However, frustratingly, none of these sources have explained why this is. So......
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Quadrotor dynamics: How is torque created
I'm a software engineer and I've recently engaged into Robotics field. I've started by a course on Coursera which talks about Aerial robotics and thus quad-rotors. I'm trying to understand how quad-...
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Can I measure torque from this motor by only measuring the current?
I am new to robotics, please forgive/correct any errors.
My Project Plan
I want to use a PID controlled motor in a human-interface device where I need to measure the user's exerted force on an end ...
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When not to use pseudoinverse?
I know this equation: $\tau = J^T f$. In my case, the Jacobian $J$ is not square. Is it valid to use the pseudoinverse of $J^T$ to calculate end effector forces $f$ based on joint torques $\tau$? I ...
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Force control on UR5e using moveit
For my project, an UR5e needs to follow a spline. At the end of the spline is needs to move into a certain direction with a constant force. The spline is succesfully executed using the cartesian path ...
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Understanding Impedance Control
I have a question regarding impedance control for a robotic manipulator.
Given that we have a task space trajectory:
$\ddot{x}$, $\dot{x}$ and $x$
And the dynamics model of the robot:
$$\tau = M(q)\...
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Singular Configuration - Balanced Wrench F?
I've been asked to show that if a manipular is at a singular configuration, then the End Effector wrench can be balanced without any joint torques.
I know that t = J*F where (t = torques, F= end ...
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TypeError: expected [string] but got [gazebo_msgs/ApplyBodyWrenchResponse]
I use rosservice to drive the rrbot model, python code is as follows:
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Why do we need coriolis and centrifugal forces when it comes to the dynamics of a robotic arm?
So we all know (and love) the typical dynamic equation of a robotic arm:
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M(q) \ddot{q}+C(q,\dot{q})\dot{q}+G(q)=\tau
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Where M is the mass matrix, G is gravity and C is Coriolis and Centrifugal ...
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which file implements the husky_velocity_controller?
When I controll the husky simulator, the motion of husky is driven by the /husky_velocity_controller/cmd_vel, I send a cmd_vel topic as expected velocity, the robot moves. But from physics, we know ...
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where is the controller from /cmd_vel to the force applied to robot?
It seems to me that what ros provides us to control a robot is the expected velocity /cmd_vel, but from this signal to real force/torque applied to the robot, there must be a controller there. Can ...
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Compute vector of attraction plus repulsion forces in a 2D force field mapping
I'm developing a force field mapping of a two-dimensional space to move a robot to a goal avoiding obstacles.
My problem is that I don't know how to move it using attraction force and repulsion ...
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Force controller with feedback issues
I'm implementing a force controller on a robotic arm, where the force input comes from torque sensors in the joints. I have calculated the cartesian force on the end-effector from the joint torques, ...
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How to limit large acceleration and jerk from PID controller?
I am trying to control a robotic arm with force input. The output of the force sensor is filtered, and fed through a PID controller to command the end-effector velocity. However, the robotic arm has ...
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Jacobian of a 6DOF arm
I have a robot with 6 DOF. I read a lot of tutorial on how to compute the Jacobian, but usually all examples are for planar robots with 2DOF.
I don't understand how can I get the Jacobian of a 6 DOF ...
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How to calculate effort/torque values of a joint
I have a robotic arm with 6 DOF. For each joint, I get get the Joint Wrench, which is composed by the force and torque of the parent and child links of the joints. In other works, for joint 1 I can ...
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DJI E310 Thrust Coefficient
I am reading Denis M. Filatov et al.'s paper "Parameters identification of thrust generation subsystem for small unmanned aerial vehicles" (https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Parameters-...
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Looking for an industry robot with joint velocity control
Hey All,
Currently we are looking for an industry robot that accepts joint speed command for real-time force control. I know Universal Robot is a potential candidate. However, its payload is not ...
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Calculation of inertia values of Ic and Im
In my dynamic model of two wheeled mobile robot, it has the total equivalent inertia, noted $I$, described by the equation below,
$I_c$ is the moment of inertia of the DDMR about the vertical
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From a linear force actuator that spans multiple links and joints to the equivalent motor torque
I am programming/using a rigid body joint-space dynamics solver for robots in which I want to implement linear force actuators between links with their equivalent torque sources that are 'spanned' by ...
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force torque sensor and control force values
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I'm using libgazebo_ros_ft_sensor.so plugin to find torques in joints and control joints using gazebo_ros_control plugin. However when I compare joint torque from sensor and ...
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Will this have more or less lifting strength
Bit of an engineering question. If a snake robot is 100 cm long, and every 10 cm is another motor. Would the robot lift more weight, the longer/more motors attached to it.. or is lifting ability ...
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What is the torque/force required to rotate the base of a robot arm?
Take a look at the following simple example robot arm:
I want to know the torque required on that bottom motor to rotate the arm. Since it's not exactly rotating directly against gravity like the ...
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set constant speed for AUV on dynamic uwsim
I want to set constant speed for AUV, however, uwsim is dynamic which means I am only able to give force to the AUV's thruster and the AUV is influenced by the water's friction force. If I could make ...
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Need help to edit libgazebo_ros_bumper source
Hellor everybody
I'm going to validate gazebo and ROS contact and 6 axis force/torque sensors. I have currently studied 6 axis force torque sensor using a simple inverted pendulum. I compared 6 axis ...
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Interpretation of Force/Torque Sensor using gazebo_ros_ft_sensor plugin
I've successfully added a force torque/sensor to my model by adding following codes in my urdf file:
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how to find maximum force of a robot joint
I want to know if there is any equation that calculates the maximum force of a robot joint. The force that we should not exceed.
For example in human leg, if we apply a big external force to the knee,...
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Based on uwsim, is it possible to set the friction force of water for the auv?
Based on uwsim, is it possible to set the friction force of water for the auv? The auv would drift after the thruster was shut down. I want to set a friction force in order to make the auv stop ...
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Ros node does not recognize Haptic device
I am developing a ros node for reading Force Dimension Omega.x haptic device input.
I downloaded the Force Dimension SDK, compiled the libraries and exported them in /usr/local/lib while copied the ...
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What are the best ways to transmit force through air efficiently?
I am taking part in a robotics competition, where the challenge is to create a pair of robots which successfully navigate a series of obstacles. However, the rules state that of the two robots, only ...
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Magnetic, low insertion force connector
I'm building a robotic tea-maker/watchdog robot and have a power problem. I would like to be able to have the robot approach a socket and insert the power cord of a cheap immersion heater (120V, 300W, ...
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Verifying motor selection calculations
I'm trying to select a brushed DC motor for a project. I tried following the advice on sizing electric motors, mentioned in this question, but a few details were missing, and I'm unsure if I properly ...
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Unilateral Torque Constraint on the foot-ground interface
I was studying the basics of legged locomotion and came across the unilateral force and torque constraints at the foot-ground interface.
I understood the implication of the unilateral constraint on ...
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Calculating the force of this system
My native language is not English, so I don't know all the specific terms you may expect me to use. I apologize for that.
Anyway, I have a motor and three connecting rods (in French, bielles). So ...
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Is there a rule of thumb for actuator torque overhead?
When installing a servo or other actuator, I measure the force needed to perform whatever action is needed and find an actuator that can generate more than the necessary force. However, I recently ...
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Can I get force information in gazebo? and how?
Hello! I want to simulate the force control of robots using gazebo. But I don't know how to get the force information in gazebo. I can get the joint position and velocity by pr2_mechanism_model::...
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Dynamics of parallel manipulator
My task is to apply forces to control 3-dof parallel manipulator. Forces are applied to linear actuators, friction is neglected. End-effector of a robot is supposed to follow generated path; for ...
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Wind force impact on torque mechanical arm
I've got an arm attached to a shaft. The arms dimensions are 40x5 inches the arm weights about 10 lbs.
If I have a wind acting on the side of the arm, how would I translate the wind force into torque ...
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