A handshake is an embodied interaction to display closeness using physical contact. In the case of a handshake between a human and a robot, robots can now smoothly communicate and coexist with humans without eliciting...
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A human-robot system in which a mobile robot follows the movement of the laser spot projected on the floor by the laser pointer attached at the human head is considered. Human gives instruction of desired movement to ...
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Abstract In this paper, we revisit the energy-based swing-up control problem for a rotational pendulum. Different from the existing energy-based control solution, first, we present a necessary and sufficient condition...
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Abstract In this paper, we revisit the energy-based swing-up control problem for a rotational pendulum. Different from the existing energy-based control solution, first, we present a necessary and sufficient condition for avoiding singular points in the control law and carry out a global motion analysis of the pendulum. Next, we remove the previous required constraint on the initial state of the pendulum and the control parameters for preventing the pendulum getting stuck at the downward equilibrium point by revealing that the point is saddle (hyperbolic and unstable). Specifically, we show that the Jacobian matrix evaluated at the point has two and two eigenvalues in the open left- and right-half planes, respectively. We prove that the pendulum will eventually be swung up into the basin of attraction of any locally stabilizing controller for all initial conditions with the exception of a set of Lebesgue measure zero. Finally, we validate the presented theoretical results via numerical simulation of two rotational pendulums. Our simulation results show that the swing-up control can be achieved quickly under the improved conditions on the control parameters.
Extraction of road region is a core technology for an autonomous vehicle which achieves safer transport. We propose extraction and modeling method for the road region in front of vehicle, using three-dimensional shape...
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We have proposed the concept of a presence sharing system Ghatcha [GHost Avatar on a Telework CHAir] in which the users' embodiment is not indicated by the avatars but by the chairs that suggest the presence of av...
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This paper describes an active control system intended to minimize the vertical vibrations transferred from the seat to the human body in a vehicle. This system controls mechanical properties such as the spring consta...
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This paper proposes a novel waveguide intersection separating two H-plane waveguide systems from each other. If a four-port network in a four-fold rotational symmetry is completely matched, it has necessarily intersec...
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The two-degrees-of-freedom optimal servo control systems have advantages that the integral gain can be tuned for improving feedback properties such as disturbance attenuation properties, while tracking property is ind...
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Rate adaptation in wireless LANs is to select the most suitable transmission rate automatically according to channel condition. If the channel condition is good, a station can choose a higher transmission rate, otherw...
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Abstract This paper concerns a trajectory tracking control problem for a pendulum with variable length, which is an underactuated mechanical system of two degrees-of-freedom with a single input of adjusting the length...
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Abstract This paper concerns a trajectory tracking control problem for a pendulum with variable length, which is an underactuated mechanical system of two degrees-of-freedom with a single input of adjusting the length of the pendulum. We aim to study whether it is possible to design a time-invariant control law to pump appropriate energy into the variable-length pendulum for achieving a desired swing motion (trajectory) with given desired energy and length of the pendulum. First, we show that it is difficult to avoid singular points in the controller designed by using the conventional energy-based control approach in which the total mechanical energy of the system is controlled. Second, we propose a tracking controller free of singular points by shaping only the kinetic energy of rotation and the potential energy of the pendulum and not utilizing the kinetic energy related to the motion along the rod. Third, we analyze globally the motion of the pendulum and clarify the stability issue of some closed-loop equilibrium points; and we also provide some conditions on control parameters for achieving the tracking objective. Finally, we present numerical simulation results to validate the presented theoretical results.
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