Robotic arms with autonomous operation capabilities are currently widely used in real life, such as fruit picking, cargo handling, and workpiece assembly. However, the common autonomous operation methods of the robotic arm have some disadvantages, such as poor universality, low robustness, and difficult implementation. An autonomous operation method of multi-DOF (Multiple Degree of Freedom) robotic arm is proposed in this study on the basis of binocular vision. First, a target object extraction method based on extracting target feature points is proposed, and combined with the binocular positioning principle to obtain the spatial position of the target object. Second, in order to improve the working efficiency of the robotic arm, the robotic arm motion trajectory is planned on the basis of genetic algorithm in the joint space. Finally, a small physical prototype model is built for experimental verification. The experimental results show that the relative positioning error of the target object can reach 1.19% in the depth of field of 70–200 mm. The average grab error, variance, and grab success rate of the robot arm are 14 mm, 6.5 mm, and 83%, respectively. This shows that the method proposed in this paper has the advantages of high robustness, good versatility and easy implementation.

The electromechanical system of a crawler is a multi-input, multioutput strongly coupled nonlinear system. In this study, an adaptive inverse control method based on kriging algorithm and Lyapunov theory is proposed to improve control accuracy during adaptive driving. The electromechanical coupling model of the electromechanical system is established on the basis of the dynamic analysis of the crawler. In accordance with the kriging algorithm, the inverse model of the electromechanical system of the crawler is established by offline data. The adaptive travel control law of the crawler is obtained on the basis of Lyapunov theory. Combined with the kriging algorithm, the adaptive driving reverse control method is designed, and the online system is used to update and perfect the inverse system model in real time. Finally, the virtual prototype model of the crawler is established, and the control effect of the adaptive inverse control method is verified by theoretical analysis and virtual prototype simulation.

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