Prioritized Hierarchical Compliance Control for Dual-Arm Robot Stable Clamping

Abstract: When a dual-arm robot clamps a rigid object in an environment for human beings, the environment or the collaborating human will impose incidental disturbance on the operated object or the robot arm, leading to clamping failure, damaging the robot even hurting the human. This research proposes a prioritized hierarchical compliance control to simultaneously deal with the two types of disturbances in the dual-arm robot clamping. First, we use hierarchical quadratic programming (HQP) to solve the robot inverse kinematics under the joint constraints and prioritize the compliance for the disturbance on the object over that on the robot arm. Second, we estimate the disturbance forces throughout the momentum observer with the F/T sensors and adopt admittance control to realize the compliances. Finally, we perform the verify experiments on a 14-DOF position-controlled dual-arm robot WalkerX, clamping a rigid object stably while realizing the compliance against the disturbances.