This commercial Aerial Work Platform has been modified with inexpensive sensors and controllers to coordinate the motions of its joints. An operator can easily command the basket to move in cylindrical, Cartesian, or other intuitive directions. Additional sensors allow the basket to follow the wall, or any other surface, at a constant standoff. NIST researchers are now developing control strategies to allow the modified AWP to apply tools that require finer accuracies then would be normally possible with a large, low-cost manipulator.
Intelligent Systems Division
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