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Evolutionary Multi-Objective Trajectory Planning for 7 DOF Robot

S. Mahalakshmi, R. Sumathi

Abstract


This paper presents a novel general method for computing optimal motions of an industrial robot manipulator (7 dof seriel link robot). The optimization model considers the nonlinear manipulator dynamics, actuator constraints and joint limits. The problem has 2 objective functions, 147 variables and 42 constraints. Two evolutionary algorithms namely Elitist Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II) and Differential Evolution (DE) have been used for the optimization. The trajectories are defined by B-spline functions. The results obtained from NSGA-II and DE are compared and analyzed.

Keywords


Multi-Objective Optimal Trajectory Planning, Elitist Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II), Differential Evolution (DE)

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