Mobile manipulator

The mobile platform offers an extended workspace to the manipulator and more degrees of freedom to operate in.

However, the operation of such a system is challenging because of the many degrees of freedom and the unstructured environment that it performs in.

The necessary technology entities (mobile platforms, robot manipulators, vision, and tooling) are, to a large extent, available from off-the-shelf components.

[1] Few implementations of mobile robots in the industrial field have been reported due to the center of attention being drawn on optimization of the individual technologies, especially robot manipulators [2] and tooling,[3] while the integration, use, and application have been neglected in the field of industrial mobile manipulation.

[5] One recent example is the mobile manipulator "Little Helper" from the Department of Production at Aalborg University.