The human hand with more than twenty seven Degrees of Freedom (DoFs) has a unique musco-skeletal structure with neuro-sensory attributes under control of CNS, is a quintessence to construct a robotic hand. The fingers...
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The human hand with more than twenty seven Degrees of Freedom (DoFs) has a unique musco-skeletal structure with neuro-sensory attributes under control of CNS, is a quintessence to construct a robotic hand. The fingers are connected to the palm with metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joints. These joints have two DoFs i.e. flexion-extension and abduction-adduction whereas the remaining two joints of the digits have only one DoF. Literature survey divulges that, while constructing a robotic hand, mostly the abduction-adduction at MCP joint is discarded for simplicity. This paper is aimed at development of a mechanism that encompasses both flexion-extension and abduction-adduction for all the three fingers located on the palm opposite to the thumb, whereas the thumb has been separately designed to impart both the radial and palmer movements with respect to the palm as well as flexion and extension, thereby imparting greater compliance to the system, to cope up with wide variety of tasks.
New generation robots, meant for physical human robot interactions, are no longer rigid;it has become soft in terms of introduction of considerable flexibility at the actuated joints, flexibility of the links and in t...
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New generation robots, meant for physical human robot interactions, are no longer rigid;it has become soft in terms of introduction of considerable flexibility at the actuated joints, flexibility of the links and in terms of compliant coverings. Safety requirement becomes primary in situations where physical interactions occur, calling for compliance;but accuracy and control bandwidth get compromised. While it has been established in literature that flexible-link-robots are difficult to control, it is found feasible to recover some of the lost bandwidth by varying stiffness in flexible-joint-robots, maintaining safety of human during interaction. This article addresses development of such a flexible robot joint actuation system with stiffness/impedance variability. This variability of stiffness is achieved passively by the flexible transmission interposed between the prime mover and the actuated link, and in doing so, nonlinearity in the elastic transmission characteristic becomes essential. The Variable Stiffness Actuation (VSA) system of this article employs an elastic element having an exponential force-displacement characteristic, which has the property of stiffness varying linearly with transmission force. This property is favourably utilized in the estimation of stiffness, and in turn can be used in control of stiffness. The variable stiffness actuation is realized here by assembling two transmissions in agonist-anatagonistic arrangement in order to achieve simultaneous control of both joint-motion and stiffness, resembling biological musculoskeletal system. By adding nonlinear damping elements in parallel to the elastic transmission, variability in mechanical impedance has been achieved. Joint stiffness is computed with the estimated stiffness of individual transmissions, which are obtained experimentally. Extended Kalman Filter is employed for the estimation of stiffness and other impedance components. Results are reported in support of the effectiveness of
A novel technique was presented for a cross-sectional imaging of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) by Scanning Electron Microscope - Computed Tomography (SEM-CT) using Environmental-SEM (E-SEM) for nanomanipulation ...
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A novel technique was presented for a cross-sectional imaging of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) by Scanning Electron Microscope - Computed Tomography (SEM-CT) using Environmental-SEM (E-SEM) for nanomanipulation applications. In our previous works, a nanorobotic manipulation system was established inside the E-SEM for water-contained samples including biological organism with a real-time high resolution observation. However, the SEM image is two dimensional (2D) and surficial information from the secondly electrons. Hence, it is not able to evaluate the targeted structure inside the sample. In this research, we presented the cross-sectional observation of the sample by SEM-CT system which is used the X-ray generated by the electron beam of SEM. To improve the signal-to-noise ratio of CT imaging, we evaluated the following ways, 1) apertures for X-ray before/after irradiating the sample, 2) adjustment of emission currents of the electron beam, 3) iteration processing of captured images. To reduce the damage of C. elegans during observation, a method was used to immerse the C. elegans by a liquid oil. The proposed 3D imaging technique is useful to evaluate the 3D manipulation of the C. elegans, such as nano-injection application with functional micro-nano beads inside the C. elegans.
In this paper we aim to introduce the multi agent robotic systems (MARS) to make a good understanding of how it works. Multi-agent systems consisting lot type class of mobile which can communicate between each other a...
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In this paper, we study the scheduling architecture that enables an assembly of mobile modules to reconfigure into a humanoid formation with a manipulator arm. The investigated problem arises from the articulated natu...
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In the recent years haptic interfaces became a reliable solution in order to solve problems which arise when humans interact with the environment. If in the research area of the haptic interaction between human and en...
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In the recent years haptic interfaces became a reliable solution in order to solve problems which arise when humans interact with the environment. If in the research area of the haptic interaction between human and environment there are important researches, a innovative approach for the interaction between the robot and the environment using haptic interfaces and virtual projection method is presented in this paper. In order to control this interaction we used the Virtual Projection Method where haptic control interfaces of impedance and admittance will be embedded. The obtained results, validated by simulations assure stability, stiffness, high maneuverability and adaptability for rescue walking robots in order to move in disaster, dangerous and hazardous areas.
In recent years wind energy is the fastest growing branch of the power generation industry. The largest cost for the wind turbine is its maintenance. A common technique to decrease this cost is a remote monitoring bas...
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In recent years wind energy is the fastest growing branch of the power generation industry. The largest cost for the wind turbine is its maintenance. A common technique to decrease this cost is a remote monitoring based on vibration analysis. Growing number of monitored turbines requires an automated way of support for diagnostic experts. As full fault detection and identification is still a very challenging task, it is necessary to prepare an early-warning tool, which would focus the attention on cases which are potentially dangerous. There were several attempts to develop such tools, in most cases based on various classification methods. The techniques that have been used so far are based on the vibration signals analysis in which the signals are considered as time series. However such approach has crucial limitations. Therefore, new approaches for wind turbines intelligent monitoring are worked out. Artificial intelligence systems are ones of promising. In this paper such approach is proposed - a vibration signal spectrum is considered as a pixel matrix which is processed using deterministic cellular automaton (DCA). It turns out that such processing allows us to detect pre-failure states.
Bikes are one of the familiar vehicles and have a lot of strong points. However, bikes have a stability problem. To overcome the problem, our research group has proposed a power steering system for bikes. In this stud...
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Bikes are one of the familiar vehicles and have a lot of strong points. However, bikes have a stability problem. To overcome the problem, our research group has proposed a power steering system for bikes. In this study, to improve the stability problem of bikes more directyly, a new stabilizing system for bikes that is combined the power steering system and a gyroscopic flywheel is proposed. A purpose of this paper is to confirm the idea from results of experiments using the developed system. An experimental setup is described and some results are shown. The results are suggested that the gyroscopic flywheel makes the system stable.
Use of flexible joints in robotic system is the recent trend in applications involving physical human robot interaction. A compliant transmission introduces the flexibility for intrinsically safe robots, whereas the a...
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