6-Axis Force/Torque Sensor With a Novel Autonomous Weight Compensating Capability for Robotic Applications

Force/Torque(F/T) sensing technology enables a dexterous robot control such as direct teaching, master-slave system, and pick-and-place task. In general, 6-axis F/T sensor is attached to the end-effector of the robot manipulator to assist in utilizing advanced robot systems. However, in actual applications, various tools such as robotic grippers, robotic hand, grinders are attached to the sensor and it causes F/T offsets with respect to the gravity. In this letter, Autonomous Weight Compensating(AWC) technique for 6-axis F/T sensor is presented. The proposed AWC technique can reduce the F/T offsets by estimating the F/T offsets through installed Inertial Measurement Unit(IMU) sensor. In this study, the 6-axis F/T are measured based on capacitance sensing scheme and to estimate the orientation of the sensor, a 9-axis IMU sensor is installed inside of the sensor. Then, the F/T offsets are calibrated via Artificial Neural Network(ANN) model. Finally, the performance of the proposed method is demonstrated through comparing the F/T data with both trained data and untrained data.

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