Collaborative Mobile Robots

Northwestern University’s Center for Robotics and Biosystems has developed collaborative robots for human-robot collaboration. 

In the experiment, three Omnid mobile collaborative robots (mobile cobots) are carrying a large pipe, and they float the pipe so that it has six degrees of freedom (three for positions: x, y, and z movements, and three for orientations: roll, pitch, and yaw rotations) and can easily be controlled by a human operator. Delta robots are three dofs series-elastic manipulators and mobile bases feature three-dof mecanum omnidirectional wheels. 

Our comprehensive lesson below provides more information on degrees of freedom for robots:

• https://www.mecharithm.com/degrees-of-freedom-of-a-robot/

The collaborative robots are controlled by a distributed control system that enables increasing the number of robots involved in the collaborative manipulation.

More information:

• https://robotics.northwestern.edu/