Due to redundancy and natural instability of humanoid robots, their motion planning becomes a challenging task. Designing stable gaits with smooth trajectories for a humanoid robot is the main goal of this article. Ta...
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This paper presents a decentralized self-adjusting reactive power controller for the autonomous operation of a multi-bus medium voltage (MV) microgrid. The main objective of the proposed control strategy of each distr...
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Teleoperation is a mechanism that makes it possible to accomplish a task in an environment where the presence of the master at the slave site is either undesirable or hardly possible The communication delay is a chall...
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Teleoperation is a mechanism that makes it possible to accomplish a task in an environment where the presence of the master at the slave site is either undesirable or hardly possible The communication delay is a challenge with undesirable effects, jeopardizing the teleoperated systems the most. When the salve agent is performing in a dynamically changing environment, communication delay can be very harmful since the environment is changing continuously even though the agent has stopped operating because of the delay. Many studies have been conducted to overcome time delay effects.
Nowadays one of the most important causes of mortality is cardiovascular disease, especially coronary artery stenosis. Therefore, it is important to find an accurate and fast way to diagnose them. Computed tomography ...
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Continuum robots do not have any joint in contrast to traditional articulated robots. Instead, these robots can bend, twist and stretch their backbone, to shape desired configurations and end-effector position. Theref...
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Continuum robots do not have any joint in contrast to traditional articulated robots. Instead, these robots can bend, twist and stretch their backbone, to shape desired configurations and end-effector position. Therefore, exact modeling of these robots is a challenging problem, particularly in spatial deformations. This paper suggests identification of some mechanical characteristics of the backbone of continuum robots, to achieve accurate results. The importance of identification of characteristics, such as undeformed shape and modulus of elasticity, will be discussed. Then, some methods to identify these characteristics are presented. Theory of Cosserat Rod will be introduced and used for modeling continuum robotic arms in this paper. Finally, the proposed approach is used for a given robot, and the model obtained based on the identified parameters will be validated by experimental results.
In some modeling and control problems, especially in robotics, determination of orientation of a rotating body or frame requires slow and time taking numerical calculations. In some cases, such as for continuum robots...
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In some modeling and control problems, especially in robotics, determination of orientation of a rotating body or frame requires slow and time taking numerical calculations. In some cases, such as for continuum robots, these time-taking calculations are an impediment to real-time control. The common approaches for orientation determination, such as Euler angles or Euler parameters, are beneficial when generalized coordinates are needed. Otherwise, these approaches require some time-taking equations for calculation of the rotation matrix (direction cosine matrix). Another method is to calculate the rotation matrix directly, based on the angular velocity. Although this method is very fast, it is numerically unstable, because of accumulation of some numerical errors. In this paper, an approach is introduced that cancels these errors with the least numerical efforts, and provides high accuracies. The application and importance of this approach is studied and discussed in the case of modeling and control of continuum robotic arms, as an instance. The proposed methods are used to model a spring, as a case study. The obtained results are validated by analytic data, and are compared to the results obtained by other methods.
In contrast to traditional articulated robots, continuum robots do not have any joints. The backbone of these robots can be bent, twisted and stretched by environmental and actuation forces. A group of continuum robot...
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In contrast to traditional articulated robots, continuum robots do not have any joints. The backbone of these robots can be bent, twisted and stretched by environmental and actuation forces. A group of continuum robotic arms use tendon-driven actuation systems. In this group, the shape of robot backbone can be controlled by pulling the tendons. Generally, exact modeling of the forces and moments produced by tendon-driven systems has no closed form solution. However, for a simplified case where the backbone shape is a planar curve with a constant curvature, some closed-form solutions have been introduced. Such solutions are valuable, especially in control applications where Jacobian matrices must be calculated. For exact modeling of elastic rods in spatial deformations, constant curvature models are not accurate. In such cases, the theory of Cosserat rod can be used for backbone modeling. Continuum robots usually consist of an elastic rod as the backbone and an actuation system. The effects of the actuation systems must be included to the model of Cosserat rod. The effects of the actuation systems are more complicated, when the tendon passages are not parallel to the backbone. In this paper, a model for continuum robotic arms is presented, which considers both, the elastic backbone and the effects of the actuation system. Furthermore, the tendons can twist around the backbone, in an arbitrary passage. The presented model is more compact than other solutions, and will be validated in a case study, by comparison with numerical results obtained from existing models.
Human-Robot physical interaction is an important attribute for robots operating in human environments. A Ballbot is an under-actuated system with nonholonomic dynamic constraints. It is a skinny robot with a small bas...
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Human-Robot physical interaction is an important attribute for robots operating in human environments. A Ballbot is an under-actuated system with nonholonomic dynamic constraints. It is a skinny robot with a small base that helps the robot to move in limited space. It is as tall as human height until could interact by people whereas a Ballbot has not been equipped with a manipulator. This manipulator adds new advantages to the Ballbot such as object manipulation and grasping. In this paper and to achieve more performance of a Ballbot, it is equipped with a PUMA type manipulator which gives to the proposed robot the capability of better stabilization. To this end, dynamics equations of the assumed mobile robot is presented and verified. Then, by respecting to this fact that a Ballbot is in the class of under-actuated systems, a control algorithm is proposed to attain the stable motion control of the system. Finally, a simulation routine is performed to move along the desired path/trajectory. Obtained results reveal the merits of the verified model of the new Ballbot and the considered control algorithm which will be discussed.
In this paper we propose a centralized algorithm for stable operation of a multi-robot dome inspection, repair, and maintenance based on potential field method. The multi-robot system consists of two robots, a leader ...
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In this paper we propose a centralized algorithm for stable operation of a multi-robot dome inspection, repair, and maintenance based on potential field method. The multi-robot system consists of two robots, a leader robot and a supporter robot, connected to each other by two strings. The follower robot sends its information to the leader robot for processing and receiving commands. The leader robot uses the friction model, the slope of the dome detected by the two robots' tilt sensors and the mass of the robots to calculate the stability ranges and determines the proper action to make the whole system stable. The leader robot moves toward its target pose while adjusting the tension of its string using potential field method to combine the attractive and repulsive potentials. The follower robot executes the commands sent by the leader robot to create the most stable configuration for the whole system. It is shown that the algorithm can guarantee stable operation all over a typical dome. The algorithm has been implemented and shown its effectiveness in simulation. Furthermore, the effect of each parameter has been discussed and it is shown that the multi-robot system is capable of completely covering a typical dome using the proposed potential field algorithm.
Due to redundancy and natural instability of humanoid robots, their motion planning becomes a challenging task. Designing stable gaits with smooth trajectories for a humanoid robot is the main goal of this article. Ta...
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Due to redundancy and natural instability of humanoid robots, their motion planning becomes a challenging task. Designing stable gaits with smooth trajectories for a humanoid robot is the main goal of this article. Taking all related parameters on robot's walking into consideration, a new gait planning approach in the task space is developed. Various aspects like upper-body motion and stability requirements have the most significant role in this new gait planning process. In order to reduce undesired fluctuations on robot center of mass a new method in trajectory planning is also suggested. To show performance of the proposed algorithm, it is compared with another reliable approach in this field, and the results will be discussed.
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