Caves on other planetary bodies offer sheltered habitat for future human explorers and numerous clues to a planet's past for scientists. While recent orbital imagery provides exciting new details about cave entran...
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Caves on other planetary bodies offer sheltered habitat for future human explorers and numerous clues to a planet's past for scientists. While recent orbital imagery provides exciting new details about cave entrances on the Moon and Mars, the interiors of these caves are still unknown and not observable from orbit. Multi-robot teams offer unique solutions for exploration and modeling subsurface voids during precursor missions. Robot teams that are diverse in terms of size, mobility, sensing, and capability can provide great advantages, but this diversity, coupled with inherently distinct low-level behavior architectures, makes coordination a challenge. This paper presents a framework that consists of an autonomous frontier and capability-based task generator, a distributed market-based strategy for coordinating and allocating tasks to the different team members, and a communication paradigm for seamless interaction between the different robots in the system. Robots have different sensors, (in the representative robot team used for testing: 2D mapping sensors, 3D modeling sensors, or no exteroceptive sensors), and varying levels of mobility. Tasks are generated to explore, model, and take science samples. Based on an individual robot's capability and associated cost for executing a generated task, a robot is autonomously selected for task execution. The robots create coarse online maps and store collected data for high resolution offline modeling. The coordination approach has been field tested at a mock cave site with highly-unstructured natural terrain, as well as an outdoor patio area. Initial results are promising for applicability of the proposed multi-robot framework to exploration and modeling of planetary caves.
The work presented here is on a methodology for design of hard real-time embedded control software for robots, i.e. mechatronic products. The behavior of the total robot system (machine, control, software and I/O) is ...
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(纸本)9781467322973
The work presented here is on a methodology for design of hard real-time embedded control software for robots, i.e. mechatronic products. The behavior of the total robot system (machine, control, software and I/O) is relevant, because the dynamics of the machine influences the robot software. Therefore, we use two appropriate Models of Computation, which represent continuous-time equations for the machine / robot part, and discrete event / discrete time equations for the control software part. To compute (simulate) such combined models, co-simulation of these models is used. The design work can be done as a stepwise refinement process, whereby each step is verified via co-simulation. This in general yields a shorter design time, and a better quality product. The tools pass model-specific information between each other via parametrized tokens in the generated, high-level code to get a better separation of design steps. This allows for better quality of the models and more reuse, thus enhancing the efficiency of model-driven design for the (industrial) end user. The method is illustrated with a case study using the tools, some of which are at the prototype level. Especially the structuring of the models and regularly doing simulations (of which some can be 'repeated' as real experiments), is beneficial, shortening the development time and producing better models. Future work is to test the method on more complex cases, and to extend the method by detailing out the electronics and mechanics sub design flows.
This paper discusses a vibration suppression control method for a space robot with a rigid manipulator and flexible appendage. A suitable dynamic model that considers the coupling between the manipulator and flexible ...
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(纸本)9781467363563
This paper discusses a vibration suppression control method for a space robot with a rigid manipulator and flexible appendage. A suitable dynamic model that considers the coupling between the manipulator and flexible appendage was developed for the controller to accomplish the vibration suppression control of the flexible appendage. The flexible appendage was modeled using a virtual joint model, and the control method was developed on the basis of this model. Although this type of control requires feedback of the flexible appendage state, its direct measurement is generally difficult. Thus, an estimator of the flexible appendage state was constructed using a force/torque sensor attached between the base and flexible appendage. The control method was experimentally verified using an air-floating system.
This paper presents a novel technique for long survival observation of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) inside Environmental-SEM (E-SEM) for nanomanipulations. We have developed the nanorobotic manipulation system ...
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This paper presents a novel technique for long survival observation of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) inside Environmental-SEM (E-SEM) for nanomanipulations. We have developed the nanorobotic manipulation system inside an Environmental-Scanning Electron Microscope (E-SEM) integrated optical microscope (OM) for nanobiomanipulation platform. Our platform provides a real-time high resolution image under water-contained condition in nano-meter high-magnification image. One of the difficulties on the E-SEM observation is to maintain the biological sample on survival condition in long time. In this paper, we propose a coating method on the C. elegans or sample substrate for maintain the survival condition to keep in wet-condition. The proposed technique is useful to operate the nanomanipulation on C. elegans body, for example nano-injection of functional micro-nano beads as demonstrated in this paper.
In this paper, a water tank experiment was conducted to check the performance of a robotic fish. To view the function of a robotic fish swimming in flowing water, a circulating water tank should be used. 4 types of a ...
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In this paper, a water tank experiment was conducted to check the performance of a robotic fish. To view the function of a robotic fish swimming in flowing water, a circulating water tank should be used. 4 types of a caudal fin were made and used in the water tank experiment and the thrust of each case was measured and compared. Through this experiment, it can be identified swimming performance of each caudal fin.
This paper presents a comparative study between two non-causal algorithms for the energy management problem of electric vehicles, endowed with batteries and supercapacitors (SCs). Toward that goal, an optimization-bas...
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(纸本)9781479901159
This paper presents a comparative study between two non-causal algorithms for the energy management problem of electric vehicles, endowed with batteries and supercapacitors (SCs). Toward that goal, an optimization-based energy problem is formulated, which targets the minimization of the source's energy losses throughout a given driving cycle. This problem is solved, firstly, with the help of a fast (but locally optimal) non-linear programming solver;and, secondly, with a slow, but globally optimal, dynamic programming (DP) approach. Simulation results will demonstrate that, despite the different theoretical properties associated with these two solver approaches, both generate similar solutions. In the second part of the work, we will develop a filter-based energy management algorithm, i.e., employ batteries to provide the low-frequency content of the power demand, while SCs cover the high-frequency demand. Our approach builds on the idea of adapting the filter's time constant throughout the vehicle's journey, using, for that purpose, a fuzzy logic algorithm and the information of the state of the vehicle. In comparison with the traditional fixed time-constant approach, the simulation results show that under some conditions the adaptive time-constant algorithm has the potential to reduce the energy losses of the sources by up to 62%.
The paper explores the ability of numerical simulations for Lamb wave propagation in plates exposed to temperature fluctuations. The local interaction simulation approach is used for wave propagation modelling. The ne...
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(纸本)9783940283412
The paper explores the ability of numerical simulations for Lamb wave propagation in plates exposed to temperature fluctuations. The local interaction simulation approach is used for wave propagation modelling. The newly developed parallel computation technology - offered by modern Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) used in low-cost graphical cards - is used in these numerical simulations. This allows for very efficient wave propagation simulation for various temperatures. Numerical simulation results can be used more effectively to develop new signal processing techniques to compensate for temperature effects.
Vibrothermography is a nondestructive testing method that monitors heat produced by damage under vibration and/or ultrasonic excitation in order to evaluate the structural health. The paper investigates practical aspe...
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(纸本)9783940283412
Vibrothermography is a nondestructive testing method that monitors heat produced by damage under vibration and/or ultrasonic excitation in order to evaluate the structural health. The paper investigates practical aspects of vibrothermographic testing of structures. Measurements in two typical application areas of vibrothermography are presented and discussed. The examples are weld test specimens and a military aircraft fuselage skin. Measurements have been performed with use of an in-house vibrothermographic testing system. In case of welded specimens a series of carbon steel test samples with different flaw types have been investigated. In case of aircraft testing, field measurements have been performed on a wing and fuselage sections in order to assess the structural integrity. The paper discusses practical aspects related to field measurements with use of vibrothermography and presents thermal image processing techniques which allow to obtain the best flaw detection results. Applied image processing techniques allow increasing the quality and readability of the results coming from field measurements with low thermal response from the structure. The paper is concluded with a discussion on applications of vibrothermographic testing in Structural Health Monitoring applications.
This paper put forward a systematic design method based on virtual prototyping technology to simulate lifting platform of jacking system in jack-up offshore platform. After the main parameters of lifting platform in j...
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The tribological problems, which have to be taken into consideration in micromachines, micromechanisms, Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) devices, and components such as silicon micromotors, toothed gears, gas t...
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