This paper presents an enhanced sliding-mode constrained motion tracking control methodology for piezo-actuated flexure-based micro/nano manipulation mechanisms. This control methodology is formulated to accommodate n...
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This paper presents an enhanced sliding-mode constrained motion tracking control methodology for piezo-actuated flexure-based micro/nano manipulation mechanisms. This control methodology is formulated to accommodate not only the parametric uncertainties and unknown force conversion function, but also the non-linearities including the hysteresis effect and external disturbances in the manipulation mechanisms. The control objective is to track desired motion trajectories in a constrained environment. In this paper, the equations for the dynamic modelling of a flexure-hinged four-bar micro/nano manipulation mechanism operating in a constrained environment are established for the formulation of the control methodology. Stability of the proposed closed-loop system is analysed, and the convergence of the motion tracking errors is proven theoretically. Furthermore, precise motion tracking ability in following a desired motion trajectory is demonstrated in the experimental study.
A mobility mechanism for robots to be used in tight spaces shared with people requires it to have a small footprint, to move omnidirectionally, as well as to be highly maneuverable. However, currently there exist few ...
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A mobility mechanism for robots to be used in tight spaces shared with people requires it to have a small footprint, to move omnidirectionally, as well as to be highly maneuverable. However, currently there exist few such mobility mechanisms that satisfy all these conditions well. Here we introduce Omnidirectional Balancing Unicycle Robot (OmBURo), a novel unicycle robot with active omnidirectional wheel. The effect is that the unicycle robot can drive in both longitudinal and lateral directions simultaneously. Thus, it can dynamically balance itself based on the principle of dual-axis wheeled inverted pendulum. This paper discloses the early development of this novel unicycle robot involving the overall design, modeling, and control, as well as presents some preliminary results including station keeping and path following. With its very compact structure and agile mobility, it might be the ideal locomotion mechanism for robots to be used in human environments in the future.
This paper outlines a method for detection and identification of actuator faults in a pneumatic process control valve using a neural network. First, the valve signature and dynamic error band tests, used by specialist...
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This paper outlines a method for detection and identification of actuator faults in a pneumatic process control valve using a neural network. First, the valve signature and dynamic error band tests, used by specialists to determine valve performance parameters, are carried out for a number of faulty operating conditions. A commercially available software package is used to carry out the diagnostic tests, thus eliminating the need for additional instrumentation of the valve. Next, the experimentally determined valve performance parameters are used to train a multilayer feedforward network to successfully detect and identify incorrect supply pressure, actuator vent blockage, and diaphragm leakage faults.
Haptic information such as pressure(tactile) distribution could improve the clinical outcomes significantly by helping to detect tumors within soft-tissue organs and indicating potential abnormalities. In open surgeri...
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Haptic information such as pressure(tactile) distribution could improve the clinical outcomes significantly by helping to detect tumors within soft-tissue organs and indicating potential abnormalities. In open surgeries, fingers are used to obtain this information. However, current surgical tele-manipulators do not provide explicit haptic feedback during soft tissue palpation. This paper describes a tactile sensing and feedback system, consisting of a colored tactile information display and pneumatic multi-fingered haptic feedback. This tissue stiffness feedback system is validated by palpating two phantom organs to locate tissue tumors. The results proved that the stiffness distribution is acquirable, visible, and palpable using our method.
Egypt is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change due to the expected detrimental impacts on coastal zones, agriculture, water security as well as indirect social and health impacts. Egypt is responsible...
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Egypt is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change due to the expected detrimental impacts on coastal zones, agriculture, water security as well as indirect social and health impacts. Egypt is responsible for 0.57% of the global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Although Egypt is a non-annex I country not requiring any specific emission reduction or limitation targets under the Kyoto protocol, its National plans have included mitigation measures to reduce its greenhouse gases. The main sectors contributing to climate change in Egypt are energy, industry, agriculture and waste. Waste, on the other hand, has been accumulating in the streets of Egypt and along its water banks causing considerable air, soil and water pollution and indirect detrimental health impacts. However, this waste which is composed of organic municipal waste, agricultural residues, agro-industrial waste, animal manure and sewage sludge are valuable biomass resources. Utilizing the waste resources of Egypt especially the biomass or the organic component of this waste will not only solve some of the pressing economic needs of Egypt such as animal fodder, fertilizer and fuel but will also alleviate environmental burdens through decreasing air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in the sector of waste as well as those of energy, industry and agriculture. This paper quantifies the biomass resources in Egypt generated from different waste resources. Then it demonstrates the efforts that Egypt made to contribute to global greenhouse gas emissions reductions through the Kyoto Protocol’s clean development mechanism (CDM). The projects in the waste sector already established in Egypt and approved as CDM projects are listed, which are related to waste management facilities and those which are waste to energy projects. Finally, a list of mitigation projects as proposed by the Egyptian government to decrease GHGs as related to the waste sector are enumerated.
The authors propose a method of controlling the position of a manipulator with passive joints which have holding brakes instead of actuators. In this method, the coupling characteristics of manipulator dynamics are us...
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The authors propose a method of controlling the position of a manipulator with passive joints which have holding brakes instead of actuators. In this method, the coupling characteristics of manipulator dynamics are used, and no additional mechanisms are required. In the paper, the effectiveness of the method is verified by experiments using a prototype manipulator. The prototype is a two degree of freedom horizontally articulated manipulator. The first axis is an active joint and the second axis is a passive joint. While the brake of the passive joint is released, the passive joint is indirectly controlled by the motion of the active joint, through the use of dynamic coupling. While the brake is engaged, the active joint is controlled. By combining these two control modes, total position of the manipulator is controlled. The experiments show that the precise positioning of the passive joint is feasible by use of the proposed method.< >
Boron arsenide (BAs) has emerged as a strong contender for next-generation functional materials, boasting desirable attributes such as high thermal conductivity and ambipolar mobility. However, a critical yet underexp...
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Boron arsenide (BAs) has emerged as a strong contender for next-generation functional materials, boasting desirable attributes such as high thermal conductivity and ambipolar mobility. However, a critical yet underexplored challenge lies in understanding its heat conduction capabilities under inhomogeneous strain, which is pivotal across various functional devices and operational conditions. Here, through modeling thermal transport in bent BAs and Si nanoribbons, a striking difference is revealed. Namely, the BAs nanoribbons exhibit nearly twice the reduction in thermal conductivity compared with Si under identical bending conditions. This significant disparity is driven by two key factors: the pronounced effect of phonon-spectra broadening under strain and the inhomogeneous strain-induced narrowing of the acoustic and optical (ao) gap. Together, these factors relax the originally restricted phonon scattering phase space and fundamentally alter phonon scattering dynamics. Our findings not only offer a new perspective on how heat transfer can be dynamically modulated in BAs, but also provide crucial insights into enhancing thermal performance in BAs-based functional devices.
Generating dynamic jumping motions on legged robots remains a challenging control problem as the full flight phase and large landing impact are expected. Compared to quadrupedal robots or other multi-legged robots, bi...
Generating dynamic jumping motions on legged robots remains a challenging control problem as the full flight phase and large landing impact are expected. Compared to quadrupedal robots or other multi-legged robots, bipedal robots place higher requirements for the control strategy given a much smaller support polygon. To solve this problem, a novel heuristic landing planner is proposed in this paper. With the momentum feedback during the flight phase, landing locations can be updated to minimize the influence of uncertainties from tracking errors or external disturbances when landing. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first approach to take advantage of the flight phase to reduce the impact of the jump landing which is implemented in the actual robot. By integrating it with a modified kino-dynamics motion planner with centroidal momentum and a low-level controller which explores the whole-body dynamics to hierarchically handle multiple tasks, a complete and versatile jumping control framework is designed in this paper. Extensive results of simulation and hardware jumping experiments on a miniature bipedal robot with proprioceptive actuation are provided to demonstrate that the proposed framework is able to achieve human-like efficient and robust jumping tasks, including directional jump, twisting jump, step jump, and somersaults.
The walking biped robot (WABIAN-2LL) can imitate human motions such as knee-stretching locomotions and deep bending motions because it is designed with large movable ranges as a human. It has two seven degrees of free...
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The walking biped robot (WABIAN-2LL) can imitate human motions such as knee-stretching locomotions and deep bending motions because it is designed with large movable ranges as a human. It has two seven degrees of freedom, (DOF) legs and a two DOF waist. Each leg consists of a three DOF ankle, a one DOF knee and a three DOF hip to deal with human walking motion. Its height is about 1.2[m], and its weight is 40[kg]. Also, how to make a knee-stretched walk pattern is proposed. During the walking, moments generated by the motion of the legs should be cancelled. So, a compensatory motion control algorithm, is used which is based on the waist motion. Through dynamic walking experiments, the effectiveness of the biped robot is confirmed
We present a full-pose end-effector control approach on Lie groups for free-floating space manipulators with non-zero momentum while tracking a moving target during proximity operations. We model space-manipulators as...
We present a full-pose end-effector control approach on Lie groups for free-floating space manipulators with non-zero momentum while tracking a moving target during proximity operations. We model space-manipulators as open-chain multi-body systems with 1-degree-of-freedom joints where the configuration space of the spacecraft is isomorphic to the Special Euclidean group SE(3). We formulate the dynamics of the spacecraft-manipulator via the Lagrange-Poincare equations and the dynamics of its target via Euler-Poincare equations to avoid kinematic singularities associated with parametrization of their poses. This model reduces the phase space of the space-manipulator by exploiting its inherent independence of the spacecraft's pose. We consider the full pose of the end-effector relative to the target as the system output, which transforms the output-tracking control problem into an output-regulation problem. To avoid parametrization singularities of this output, we perform feedback linearization on the matrix Lie group SE (3) in the reduced phase space of the space-manipulator. We then propose a feedback/feedforward proportional-integral-derivative workspace controller, based on coordinate-free pose and velocity error functions defined on the matrix Lie group associated with the target's relative pose. We provide analytical proof of the almost-global stability of the presented controller when regulating the end-effector's pose relative to the target towards identity.
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