This paper describes the task-oriented manipulability of tele-operated robotic arms mounted on a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) and its application to task-oriented joint configurations. The main purpose of the study is to reduce the tele-operator's burden in performing underwater tasks by enhancing the functionality of the manipulator. Even though a manipulator has 6 degrees-of-freedom (DOF), which is proper DOF to work in Cartesian workspace, the manipulator might have redundancy according to task types and order of task-priority. This paper focuses on the problem to utilize the redundancy by introducing a scalar function as an object of optimization. The scalar function is composed of a taskoriented manipulability measure (TOMM) and joint limit measure (JLM). Using sequential quadratic programming (SQP) with the object function, we obtained optimal postures of the manipulator for a given position constraint of the end-effecter. Adopting the scalar function as a performance index, we solved a redundancy resolution problem based on the pseudo inverse of the task-oriented Jacobian matrix.
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