Geometric collision detection and potential field based time delay planning for dual arm systems

Abstract

In this paper a method for collision detection and collision avoidance for dual arm robots is proposed. The collision detection, a fast geometric approach based on link intersection, detects the collision and constructs the collision region for given trajectories. The time delay planning determines the minimum necessary time delay to avoid collisions using a potential field representation for collision regions. The planning is based on a flexible, massively parallel approach. It effectively avoids any local minima problems due to the potential field representation and can be used regardless of the complexity of the collision region (e.g., concave or complicated regions).