MineRobot: An Actuator-Centered Kinematic Modeling and Solving Framework for Underground Mining Robots
Underground mining robots are increasingly modeled for planning, operator training, and digital-twin workflows, where reliable actuator-level kinematics is needed to reduce hazardous in situ trials. Unlike typical open-chain industrial manipulators, representative mining machines are often linear-actuator-driven closed-chain mechanisms with planar four-bar linkages, making reusable kinematic modeling and real-time FK/IK solving challenging. We present \textit{\hl{MineRobot}}, an actuator-centered framework for modeling and solving the kinematics of this representative mechanism class. MineRobot introduces the Mining Robot Description Format (MRDF), a domain-specific representation that parameterizes mining-robot kinematics with native semantics for actuators and loop closures. It then contracts planar four-bar substructures into generalized joints and extracts, for each actuator, an Independent Topologically Equivalent Path (ITEP) classified into four canonical types. Based on this decomposition, per-type solvers are composed into a sequential forward-kinematics (FK) pipeline, while inverse kinematics (IK) is formulated as a bound-constrained actuator-length optimization solved by a Gauss--Seidel-style update scheme. By converting coupled closed-chain kinematics into small topology-aware solves, MineRobot reduces robot-specific hand derivations and supports efficient repeated FK/IK computation without treating each query as a full coupled constraint-solving problem. Experiments on representative underground mining robots demonstrate real-time FK performance and robust IK convergence within the tested operating ranges, supporting the use of MineRobot as an actuator-centered kinematic layer for planning, training, and digital-twin workflows.
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