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A Comprehensive On-Load Calibration Method for Industrial Robots Based on a Unified Kinetostatic Error Model and Gaussian Process Regression
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas. Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on. 73:1-11 2024
Subject
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Robots
Calibration
Deformation
Kinematics
Load modeling
Service robots
Jacobian matrices
Compliance identification
Gaussian process regression (GPR)
local product-of-exponential (LPOE) formula
robot calibration
Language
ISSN
0018-9456
1557-9662
Abstract
Industrial robots are widely used in various manufacturing processes due to their flexibility and versatility. However, the robot’s absolute accuracy is significantly impacted by inaccurate kinematic parameters, joint compliance, and other nonlinear factors. To improve the robot’s absolute accuracy, a comprehensive calibration method is proposed in this article. Based on the local product-of-exponential (LPOE) formula and force Jacobian mapping, the forward kinematics of the loaded serial robot is established. Thereby, a unified kinetostatic error model is obtained using matrix differentiation and adjoint mapping. This model achieves the simultaneous calibration of geometric and deformation errors. To further improve the robot’s absolute accuracy, a Gaussian process regression (GPR) model based on Bayesian optimization is proposed to compensate for residual errors. Experiments were conducted on the ABB-IRB 4400 industrial robot. The results under various loads demonstrate that, compared with state-of-the-art methods, the proposed method can enhance the calibration accuracy by approximately 8.1%–54.8%, thus verifying its effectiveness.