Soft robots have shown amazing moving ability through a variety of motion patterns including bending, contraction, extension and twisting, leading to an extraordinary adaptability to complex environments. Pneumatic ac...
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(纸本)9781467396769
Soft robots have shown amazing moving ability through a variety of motion patterns including bending, contraction, extension and twisting, leading to an extraordinary adaptability to complex environments. Pneumatic actuators and SMA are already used to achieve the softness, new materials are still waiting to thrive the field. Ferrofluid is a kind of novel smart material which can be controlled by a gradient magnetic field. In this paper, the concept of a ferrofluid soft robot is introduced for the first time. A prototype called Soft-ball is designed to test the potential of the soft robot. Soft-ball is made by putting ferrofluid into a soft shell so that it provides both characteristics of ferrofluid and softness. It is tested that Soft-ball can alter shapes or change position with the gradient of the magnetic field. To investigate its performance on different environments, Soft-ball passes several obstacles of different shapes in a series of experiments. Eventually we demonstrate that the design has the potential of adaptability to complex environments.
A new type linear ultrasonic motor using the second-order bending and the first-order torsional modes (2B-1T) is proposed. The ultrasonic motor has double driving feet and the continuous linear motions of sliders are ...
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This paper deals with the geometric design of the deployable mechanisms based on intuitive projective approach. Firstly, the deployed and folded configurations for the spatial single-loop polygon structure is defined....
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This paper deals with the geometric design of the deployable mechanisms based on intuitive projective approach. Firstly, the deployed and folded configurations for the spatial single-loop polygon structure is defined. Secondary, two special planes, the deployed plane and the folded plane, are defined based on the deployed and the folded configurations respectively. Then the geometric parameters of the deployable mechanisms can be determined by projecting the joint axes onto the deployed plane and folded plane, following which we can obtain the relative position of the adjacent two joint axes in one link. By employing the Bricard mechanism as an example, we show the detailed design procedures of the proposed design methodology for the geometric design of the single-loop and multi-loop Bricard-based deployable mechanisms.
A novel 16 bit Asynchronous μController based on FPGA state machine algorithm for the EtherCAT Slaved during write and read access is described in this paper. The present study focuses on the Schematic of μControlle...
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A new torso design of humanoid robot is proposed as a 3-DOF PKM (Parallel Kinematic Manipulator) structure by using results of a biomimetic analysis of torso in humans and animals. Main characteristics of torso in nat...
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(纸本)9781479970995
A new torso design of humanoid robot is proposed as a 3-DOF PKM (Parallel Kinematic Manipulator) structure by using results of a biomimetic analysis of torso in humans and animals. Main characteristics of torso in nature are presented from which design requirements are outlined for a solution in humanoid robot. The PKM torso is consist of two platforms and four UPU mechanisms. The usefulness of such a biomimetic inspiration is proved by a numerical simulation of the proposed PKM torso in its basic movements.
Aiming at suppressing the vibration of low-frequency, a procedure of dynamic optimization of wafer handling robot is presented. The dynamic model of wafer handling robot is firstly build, and following that the dynami...
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To address the lack of 3D space information in the digital radiography of a patient femur, a pose estimation method based on 2D-3D rigid registration is proposed in this study. The method uses two digital radiography ...
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In this paper, a general linear time-varying multiple-axis (LTVMA) vibration model of shield tunnel boring machine (TBM) cutterhead driving system is established. The corresponding multiple inputs and multiple outputs...
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In this paper, a general linear time-varying multiple-axis (LTVMA) vibration model of shield tunnel boring machine (TBM) cutterhead driving system is established. The corresponding multiple inputs and multiple outputs (MIMO) state-space model is also presented. The linear vibration model is analysed, and the vibration-torque transfer function matrix and the vibration-torque static gain matrix are obtained. The linear vibration model is simulated, and the physical parameters' effects on the vibration response are investigated. A preliminary approach is proposed to reduce vibration by increasing motor rotor inertia and viscous damped. The LTVMA vibration model provides a solid foundation for fault detection and diagnosis (FDD), as long as the health monitoring of cutterhead driving system.
In this paper, a human robot shared control strategy is developed and tested on a Baxter robot. Using the proposed method, the human operator only needs to consider the motion of the end-effector of the manipulator, w...
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In this paper, a human robot shared control strategy is developed and tested on a Baxter robot. Using the proposed method, the human operator only needs to consider the motion of the end-effector of the manipulator, while the manipulator will avoid obstacle by itself without sacrificing the end effector motion performance. An improved obstacle avoidance strategy based on the joint space redundancy of the manipulator is designed. A dimension reduction method is presented to solve the over defined problem of avoiding velocity to achieve a more efficient use of the redundancy. By employment of an artificial parallel system of the teleoperate manipulator and the task switching weighting factor, the proposed control method enable the robot restoring back to the commanded pose smoothly when the obstacle is removed. By implementing the dimension reduction method, the trajectory of each joint of the manipulator can be controlled at the same time to achieve the restoring task. Thus, the proposed control method can eliminate the impact of the obstacle on the remaining task. Satisfactory experiment results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.
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