A reconfigurable modular snake robot has been developed, which can not only move on a plane but aIso achieve some f-dimensional motions while reconfigured. Control equations of 3-dimensional locomotion were establishe...
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A reconfigurable modular snake robot has been developed, which can not only move on a plane but aIso achieve some f-dimensional motions while reconfigured. Control equations of 3-dimensional locomotion were established by the composition of two bending motions in mutual orthogonal plane. Three types of lateral rolling locomotion, flapping, linear rolling and curved rolling, were achieved by controlling the amplitudes and the number of two waves in the two bending motions. Using the three types of locomotion the snake robot can realize net lateral translation, alternation of its contact base and rolling over some obstacles. The lateral rolling locomotion obtains its driving force through the interaction with the environment. The rolling shape and its direction depend on the transferring direction and phase difference of the two waves respectively.
Several novel devices under development in our laboratories to ultimately realize a micro robotic system for single cell nanoscale probing, injection, imaging and surgery is described in this paper. Thus far, we have ...
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Several novel devices under development in our laboratories to ultimately realize a micro robotic system for single cell nanoscale probing, injection, imaging and surgery is described in this paper. Thus far, we have 1) developed MEMS polymer grippers that can be actuated under water with very large deflection and are capable of gripping 500/spl mu/m embryonic cells in water with /spl sim/2 V input; 2) developed a probe-etching technique to controllably shape fiber probes into various tip geometries, i.e., fibers with initial diameter of 125 /spl mu/m were sharpened into tips with angles ranging from <2.7-9.7/spl deg/ and with nanoscale tip diameters of <1/spl mu/m; 3) developed a novel PVDF force sensing system with resolution in the sub-/spl mu/N range for applications in bio-manipulation, bio-injection, and potentially single cell surgery. Details of these technologies are discussed in this paper.
In this paper we model coupled genetic and metabolic networks as hybrid systems. The vector fields are multi affine, i.e., have only product type nonlinearities to accommodate chemical reactions, and are defined in re...
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Electro Thermo Mechanical (ETM) actuators play important role in rapidly growing MEMS area, particularly as a part of the more complex MEMS assemblies. Compared to the other types of micro actuators, ETM actuators gen...
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Electro Thermo Mechanical (ETM) actuators play important role in rapidly growing MEMS area, particularly as a part of the more complex MEMS assemblies. Compared to the other types of micro actuators, ETM actuators generate large force with the price of the high power consumption. Tradeoff between these two properties, and design requirements arise necessity for the development of its accurate dynamical mathematical model. The accurate model leads towards the optimal design and, if necessary, can be used for a subsequent design of control algorithms. In general, the mathematical model consists of the three sub-models-electrical, thermal and mechanical and is should be considered as multi-physics phenomena with thermal one playing a dominant role. The dynamics of particular sub-model is determined by combining of the theoretical and Finite Element Analysis approach, verified with the available experimental data. Simultaneous application of these three approaches requires a definition of a procedure that leads toward determination of the model. In this paper, mentioned procedure is described in details, and is subsequently illustrated on the example of two hot arm bimorph thermal actuator fabricated using Poly-Multi User MEMS Process (PolyMUMPs).
Biological snakes' diverse locomotion modes and physiology make them supremely adapted for the ground. This paper discusses the Biological snakes' locomotion mode on the diverse ground, and describes the devel...
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Biological snakes' diverse locomotion modes and physiology make them supremely adapted for the ground. This paper discusses the Biological snakes' locomotion mode on the diverse ground, and describes the development of a snake-like robot with the adaptability for the ground. The method to realize some locomotion modes is given. The method for detecting the characteristic of ground is proposed and identified in test.
A systems re-engineering technique to integrated control and supervision for applications to industrial multi-zone furnaces has been elaborated by using known theories on generalized predictive control and nonlinear p...
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A systems re-engineering technique to integrated control and supervision for applications to industrial multi-zone furnaces has been elaborated by using known theories on generalized predictive control and nonlinear programming. This paper presents the derivation of optimizing equations and inequalities. The design is based on the use of general predictive control to provide optimized set-points under the presumption a well designed regulatory control was implemented at the executive level. Digital implementation of control functions are sought within standard computer process control platform for practical engineering and maintenance reasons.
We designed the leg mechanism of a water surface runner to generate motion with sufficient force to support and propel it the water with minimum power consumption. We studied force acting between the foot and water wh...
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Snake-like robot has its unique locomotion mode and can change its locomotion form while the ground condition changed, to achieve the best velocity and efficiency. We first analyze the snake-like robot locomotion on d...
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Snake-like robot has its unique locomotion mode and can change its locomotion form while the ground condition changed, to achieve the best velocity and efficiency. We first analyze the snake-like robot locomotion on different terrains simply, then point out the significance to sense the ground status that is the base of choosing different locomotion form on different ground. Last we use force sensors to distinguish the different ground status.
This paper presents the kinematic synthesis of a CRR serial chain. This is a four-degree-of-freedom chain constructed from a cylindric joint and two revolute joints in series. The design equations for this chain are o...
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This paper presents the kinematic synthesis of a CRR serial chain. This is a four-degree-of-freedom chain constructed from a cylindric joint and two revolute joints in series. The design equations for this chain are obtained from the dual quaternion kinematics equations evaluated at a specified set of task positions. In this case, we find that the chain is completely defined by seven task positions. Furthermore, our solution of these equations has yielded 52 candidate designs, so far;there may be more. This synthesis methodology shows promise for the design of constrained serial chains.
This paper examine the geometric design of the five degree-of-freedom RPS serial chain. This constrained robot can be designed to reach an arbitrary set of ten spatial positions. It is often convenient to consider tas...
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This paper examine the geometric design of the five degree-of-freedom RPS serial chain. This constrained robot can be designed to reach an arbitrary set of ten spatial positions. It is often convenient to consider tasks with fewer positions, and here we study the cases of seven through ten position synthesis. A generalized eigenvalue elimination technique yields analytical solutions for cases seven and eight. While cases nine and ten are solved numerically using homotopy continuation. An numerical example is provided for an eight position task.
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