用螺旋几何方法让机器人自动合成纳米颗粒,无需编程经验。
Robotic Nanoparticle Synthesis via Solution-based Processes
- 用螺旋运动表示法建模操作动作,适配复杂物理约束。
- 单次示范即可学习技能,重复使用于不同实验设置。
- 适合化学家快速上手,推动实验室自动化落地。
我们提出一种基于螺旋几何的运动规划框架,用于机器人自动化溶液法合成,以金和磁铁矿纳米颗粒制备为例。合成过程为长时程、多步骤任务,需执行抓取放置、倾倒、旋转旋钮及视觉检测反应完成等操作。其中倾倒、转移容器和旋转旋钮等动作对末端执行器运动有几何与运动学约束。为此,采用示范编程范式,从单一示范中提取约束。结合螺旋运动表示与示范驱动的参数化设定,使化学家等领域专家无需机器人或运动规划知识,即可快速适配新实验流程与实验室环境。通过从示范中提取恒定螺旋序列,紧凑编码运动约束并保持坐标不变性,实现对抓取位置变化的鲁棒泛化,并支持单例学习技能的参数化复用。按合成协议组合这些螺旋参数化原语,机器人可自主生成运动计划,在多次运行中完整执行实验。结果表明,螺旋理论规划结合示范编程,为长时程实验室自动化提供了严谨且可推广的基础,推动基础运动学在可扩展溶液合成中的实际应用。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We present a screw geometry-based manipulation planning framework for the robotic automation of solution-based synthesis, exemplified through the preparation of gold and magnetite nanoparticles. The synthesis protocols are inherently long-horizon, multi-step tasks, requiring skills such as pick-and-place, pouring, turning a knob, and periodic visual inspection to detect reaction completion. A central challenge is that some skills, notably pouring, transferring containers with solutions, and turning a knob, impose geometric and kinematic constraints on the end-effector motion. To address this, we use a programming by demonstration paradigm where the constraints can be extracted from a single demonstration. This combination of screw-based motion representation and demonstration-driven specification enables domain experts, such as chemists, to readily adapt and reprogram the system for new experimental protocols and laboratory setups without requiring expertise in robotics or motion planning. We extract sequences of constant screws from demonstrations, which compactly encode the motion constraints while remaining coordinate-invariant. This representation enables robust generalization across variations in grasp placement and allows parameterized reuse of a skill learned from a single example. By composing these screw-parameterized primitives according to the synthesis protocol, the robot autonomously generates motion plans that execute the complete experiment over repeated runs. Our results highlight that screw-theoretic planning, combined with programming by demonstration, provides a rigorous and generalizable foundation for long-horizon laboratory automation, thereby enabling fundamental kinematics to have a translational impact on the use of robots in developing scalable solution-based synthesis protocols.
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