
Autonomous multi-robot optical inspection systems are increasingly applied for obtaining inline measurements in process monitoring and quality control. Numerous methods for path planning and robotic coordination have been developed for static and dynamic environments and applied to different fields. However, these approaches may not work for the autonomous multi-robot optical inspection system due to fast computation requirements of inline optimization, unique characteristics on robotic end-effector orientations, and complex large-scale free-form product surfaces. This paper proposes a novel task allocation methodology for coordinated motion planning of multi-robot inspection. Specifically, (1) a local robust inspection task allocation is proposed to achieve efficient and well-balanced measurement assignment among robots; (2) collision-free path planning and coordinated motion planning are developed via dynamic searching in robotic coordinate space and perturbation of probe poses or local paths in the conflicting robots. A case study shows that the proposed approach can mitigate the risk of collisions between robots and environments, resolve conflicts among robots, and reduce the inspection cycle time significantly and consistently.
Optical inspection, FOS: Computer and information sciences, Technology, GENETIC ALGORITHM, Systems and Control (eess.SY), Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Systems and Control, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, MOBILE ROBOTS, Computer Science - Robotics, Engineering, Coordinated motion planning, 0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing, FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, PATH, OPTIMIZATION, 0899 Other Information and Computing Sciences, Multi-robot, Quality control, 0910 Manufacturing Engineering, Engineering, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering & Automation, Computer Science, Robotics (cs.RO), Task allocation
Optical inspection, FOS: Computer and information sciences, Technology, GENETIC ALGORITHM, Systems and Control (eess.SY), Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Systems and Control, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, MOBILE ROBOTS, Computer Science - Robotics, Engineering, Coordinated motion planning, 0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing, FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, PATH, OPTIMIZATION, 0899 Other Information and Computing Sciences, Multi-robot, Quality control, 0910 Manufacturing Engineering, Engineering, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering & Automation, Computer Science, Robotics (cs.RO), Task allocation
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