Reactive Mobile Manipulation: Design and Implementation

(c) 2000 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other users, including reprinting/ republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted components of this work in other works.Digital Object Identifier : 10.1109/CDC.2000.914278A solution to the trajectory tracking problem for mobile manipulators is proposed and implemented on a real robotic system. Given a trajectory for the gripper to follow, a tracking algorithm for the manipulator is designed, and at the same time the base motions are generated in such a way that the base is coordinated with the gripper while reactively avoiding obstacles. Furthermore, it is shown that the method allows arbitrary upper and lower bounds on the gripper-base distance to be set, and this can be achieved without introducing deadlocks into the system