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9 January 2008Adaptive trajectory shaping for liquid container manipulation
In the paper, a novel trajectory shaping scheme to improve the manipulation skill of the articulated manipulator
for the liquid container transportation is proposed. The paper investigated the transient free surface behavior of
liquid inside a cup during the horizontal transportation. Based on the observation of the free surface vibration of
the liquid, the adaptive command shaping filter is proposed for the generation of the transportation trajectory
to reduce the fluctuation magnitude without increasing the time required to travel the given transportation
distance. Simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed scheme. An experimental testbed of an
articulated manipulator with a simplified model of a liquid container is established. The proposed manipulation
approach is implemented in the experimental setup and the experimental results also verify the effectiveness of
the proposed scheme.