1.School of Electromechanical Engineering,Guangdong University of Technology,Guangzhou,510006
2.Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Minimally Invasive Surgical Instruments and Manufacturing Technology,Guangdong University of Technology,Guangzhou,510006
3.State Key Laboratory of High Performance Tools,Guangzhou,510006
4.Smart Medical Innovation Technology Center,Guangdong University of Technology,Guangzhou,510006
The existing redundancy optimization methods might fail to fully exploit the robot's redundancy when six-axis industrial robots performing five-axis machining tasks, limiting the smoothness of the planned motion path. An efficient algorithm was proposed for collision-free and smooth joint motion planning of six-axis robots. The method fully utilized the robot's redundancy by varying the redundancy variable at each cutter location data to generate all possible candidate robot postures. To enhance computational efficiency, a two-step search strategy was introduced combining rough and fine searches with a greedy approach, and the robot postures were selected from feasible postures with greedy strategy. The proposed method does not require segmenting the machining path and may optimize the robot's posture along the entire machining path simultaneously. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm was validated by simulation calculations on joint motion paths of six-axis industrial robots conducting five-axis milling surface machining tasks.
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