Visual Servo Control and Path Planning of Ball and Plate System

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 機械與機電工程學系研究所 === 97 === This thesis presents a visual servo control scheme for a ball-and-plate system with a maze. The maze built on the plate forms obstacles for the ball and increases variety and complexity of its environment. The ball-and-plate system is a two degrees-of-freedo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chin-Chuan Chou, 周景荃
Other Authors: Chi-Cheng Cheng
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/226qyj
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Summary:碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 機械與機電工程學系研究所 === 97 === This thesis presents a visual servo control scheme for a ball-and-plate system with a maze. The maze built on the plate forms obstacles for the ball and increases variety and complexity of its environment. The ball-and-plate system is a two degrees-of-freedom robotic wrist with an acrylic plate attached as the end effector. By using image processing techniques, the ball’s position is acquired from the visual feedback, which was implemented with a webcam and a personal computer. A fuzzy controller, which provides dexterity of the robotic wrist, is designed to decide the slope angles of the plate to guide the ball to a designated target spot. Using the method of distance transform, the path planning based on the current position of the ball is conducted to find the shortest path toward the target spot. Besides, a relaxed path, appears to be more suitable for actual applications, is provided by the obstacle’s expansion approach. Experimental results show that the presented control framework successfully leads the ball to pass through the maze and arrive at target spot. The visual servo control scheme works effectively in both stabilization and tracking control. Based on this preliminary achievement, further improvement and deeper exploration on related research topics can be carried on in the future.