The invention belongs to the field of autonomous operation of
underwater robots, and particularly relates to a visual mechanical arm grabbing method after an autonomous
underwater robot sits on the bottom, which comprises the following steps: after the AUV sits on the bottom, a binocular camera is utilized to
shoot seabed images, and target identification and positioning of
seabed grabbing are carried out; judging whether a grabbed target is in a
seabed motion space of the flexible hand or not by utilizing a
transformation matrix of a camera coordinate
system and a mechanical arm coordinate
system, if not, performing AUV body
pose adjustment, and re-executing target recognition and positioning; and if the target is in the seabed
motion space of the flexible hand, the AUV performs mechanical arm
motion planning and execution based on a table look-up interpolation method according to the spatial position information of the target, so that the flexible hand moves to the target position, and the flexible hand is controlled to be closed to complete grabbing. According to the grabbing
motion planning method for the visual mechanical arm, autonomous grabbing actions of the mechanical arm and the flexible hand can be rapidly completed under the low calculation complexity, the grabbing
position error is small, and the grabbing success rate is high.