15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
FAULT DETECTION AND ISOLATION FOR MULTIPLE ROBOTIC MANIPULATORS
Renato Tinós* Marco H. Terra*
* Electrical Eng. Department, EESC, University of São Paulo,
CP 359, São Carlos, SP, 13560-970, Brazil
{tinos} terra@sel.eesc.sc.usp.br

The problem of fault detection and isolation (FDI) in cooperative manipulators is addressed here. Four faults are considered: free-swinging joint faults, locked joint faults, incorrect measured joint position, and incorrect measured joint velocity. Free-swinging and locked joint faults are isolated using neural networks. For each arm, a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) is used to reproduce the dynamics of the fault-free robot. The outputs of each MLP are compared to the real joint velocities in order to generate a residual vector that is then classified by a RBF network. The sensor faults are isolated based on the kinematic constraints imposed on the system. Simulations and a real application are presented indicating the efectiveness of the FDI system.
Keywords: Fault Detection, Fault Isolation, Robotic Manipulators, Neural Networks, Co-operation.
Session slot T-Th-E10: Fault Diagnosis Application Studies II/Area code 7e : Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes