Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 March 2009
In disassembly tasks, due to the large variety of objects and the different positions and orientations in which they appear, the disassembly trajectories supplied on-line by a human operator or an automatic recognition system can contain large errors. The classical compliant control methods turn out to be insufficient to eliminate sticking which is due to these errors. This paper presents a compliant control method for disassembly of non-elastic parts in non-elastic environments which adopts the trajectories according to realised motion. In case of sticking a new direction of motion is searched for until the manipulated part is set into motion.