Research on Motion Trajectory Planning and Impedance Control for Dual-Arm Collaborative Robot Grinding Tasks

In robot grinding tasks, dual manipulators possess improved flexibility, which can cooperate to complete different tasks with higher efficiency and satisfactory effect. In collaborative robot grinding tasks, the critical issues lie in the motion trajectory planning of the two manipulators and trajectory tracking with satisfactory accuracy under the condition that the two manipulator ends apply force on each other. In order to accomplish the goals in a more concise and feasible way, a complete scheme for dual-arm robot grinding tasks is essential. To address this issue, taking the motion trajectory planning and impedance control into consideration, a novel scheme for dual manipulators to complete collaborative grinding tasks is presented in this paper. To this end, a dual-arm grinding system is first constructed, and the kinematic constraints in the cooperative motion are analyzed, based on which the motion trajectories of the dual manipulators are planned according to the grinding task objectives. Then, an impedance controller is designed to achieve accurate tracking of the motion trajectory in the grinding process. Finally, dual-arm collaborative simulations and grinding experiments are carried out, and the results show that the proposed method can achieve good motion results and better flexibility compared to the single-arm motion, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method.