Impedance Control using Kawada’s Hironx Dual-arm Robot

From TORK's blogpost:

Impedance Control using Kawada’s Hironx Dual-arm Robot

Here’s an advanced usecase of NEXTAGE Open (Hironx) robot.
A robot at Manipulation Research Group at AIST (Japan) is equipped with JR3 6-axis force sensor at the tip of the arms. Using the external force measurement from the sensor, impedance control is achieved to restrain the pose of the robot’s end-effector.

Interested users can take a look at this wiki page for how to configure your driver. Technically you can use other types of force sensors.
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ROS Workshop at Municipality (by TORK)

(From TORK's website)

ROS Workshop at Municipality

We held ROS Workshop at Sagamihara ROBOT SUPPORT CENTER (SIC) and Okada-Lab at Tamagawa University on 16th, 30th Jan, and 6th Feb.

SIC is an industrial training facility in the city of Sagamihara in Kanagawa prefecture, where global and local businesses are located in electronics and heavy industry (incl. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Caterpillar Japan, 3M, Nissan, JAXA (Japanese Aerospace Agency)). The center aims to assist the local economy by providing training and support for the robotics technologies.

We, TORK, have been holding technical workshop for opensource robotics for several dozen times at different levels (this, this, this, and this to name a few). This time we worked with SIC to give a series of dedicated workshop for the engineers and managers from the local tech companies.

The contents consists of following three parts. We also would like to thank to students from Okada-Lab@Tamagawa University for their assistance.

• 1. ROS Workshop for beginners.
  • Learning basics of ROS system through the hands-on workshop.
    • ROS Setup
    • Recognition human hand with vision sensor（LeapMotion)
    • Recognition based motor control
• 2. ROS Workshop for intermediates
  • Learning how to control original robot arm. This tutorial uses original manipulator using Dynamixel servo motors. Learn how to create URDF model and MoveIt Setup.
    • Robot arm modeling and visualization
    • Connecting real robot and robot on rviz
    • Control simulated robot on rviz using MoveIt!
    • Control real robot using MoveIt!
    • Recognizing AR marker and transformations
    • Wringing vision based robot motion control program
• 3. ROS + Nextage/HIRO Dual-arm robot
  • Learning ROS and OpenRTM using HIRO robots, including how to plan motions using MoveIt!, using Kinect Depth sensor for realtime obstacle avoidance, grasping object using hand-eye cameras.