Piezoelectric robots play important roles in the field of micromanipulation, but it is difficult for them to generate steady precision motion at any moment. In order to eliminate the changing inertial force and improv...
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Piezoelectric robots play important roles in the field of micromanipulation, but it is difficult for them to generate steady precision motion at any moment. In order to eliminate the changing inertial force and improve the motion smoothness, this work proposes a piezoelectric robot with continuous walking gait inspired by ants. The idea is verified with theoretical models and numerical simulation, and the performances are evaluated with experiments. The robot is proven to have the ability to generate 3-DOF(dgeree of freedom) continuous smooth motions with constant speeds. The maximum and minimum smooth velocities have a difference of six orders of magnitude, realizing cross-scale velocity control. Besides, the motion resolution reaches several nanometers with the unlimited workspace, so the cross-scale displacement control can be also obtained. Furthermore, with great robustness against varying loads, the stable actuation capability of the robot is more than 22 times of the self-weight. To sum up,the proposed robot generates cross-scale smooth motion in both aspects of displacement and velocity, so it has good prospects in the applications requiring steady precision motion. The design philosophy and research methods in this work can be valuable references for further advances of micromanipulation robots.
The positional information of objects is crucial to enable robots to perform grasping and pushing manipulations in *** effectively perform grasping and pushing manipu-lations,robots need to perceive the position infor...
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The positional information of objects is crucial to enable robots to perform grasping and pushing manipulations in *** effectively perform grasping and pushing manipu-lations,robots need to perceive the position information of objects,including the co-ordinates and spatial relationship between objects(e.g.,proximity,adjacency).The authors propose an end-to-end position-aware deep Q-learning framework to achieve efficient collaborative pushing and grasping in ***,a pair of conjugate pushing and grasping attention modules are proposed to capture the position information of objects and generate high-quality affordance maps of operating positions with features of pushing and grasping *** addition,the authors propose an object isolation metric and clutter metric based on instance segmentation to measure the spatial re-lationships between objects in cluttered *** further enhance the perception capacity of position information of the objects,the authors associate the change in the object isolation metric and clutter metric in cluttered environment before and after performing the action with reward function.A series of experiments are carried out in simulation and real-world which indicate that the method improves sample efficiency,task completion rate,grasping success rate and action efficiency compared to state-of-the-art end-to-end *** that the authors’system can be robustly applied to real-world use and extended to novel *** material is available at https://***/NhG\_k5v3NnM}{https://***/NhG\_k5v3NnM.
Many heat transfer tubes are distributed on the tube plates of a steam generator that requires periodic inspection by *** inspection robots are usually involved in issues:Robots with manipulators need complicated inst...
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Many heat transfer tubes are distributed on the tube plates of a steam generator that requires periodic inspection by *** inspection robots are usually involved in issues:Robots with manipulators need complicated installation due to their fixed base;tube mobile robots suffer from low running efficiency because of their structural *** there are thousands of tubes to be checked,task planning is essential to guarantee the precise,orderly,and efficient inspection *** in-service robots check the task tubes using row-by-row and column-bycolumn *** leads to unnecessary inspections,resulting in a long shutdown and affecting the regular operation of a nuclear power ***,this paper introduces the structure and control system of a dexterous robot and proposes a task planning *** method proceeds into three steps:task allocation,base position search,and sequence *** allocate the task regions,this method calculates the tool work matrix and proposes a criterion to evaluate a *** then all tasks contained in the sub-region are considered globally to search the base ***,we apply an improved ant colony algorithm for base sequence planning and determine the inspection orders according to the planned *** validated the optimized algorithm by conducting task planning experiments using our robot on a tube *** results show that the proposed method can accomplish full task coverage with few repetitive or redundant inspections and it increases the efficiency by 33.31% compared to the traditional planning algorithms.
This paper designs a soft robot with a multi-chamber,multi-airbag mimicking soft biological structure,where the airbags of the same chamber are interconnected with each *** upper and lower chambers are separated by an...
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This paper designs a soft robot with a multi-chamber,multi-airbag mimicking soft biological structure,where the airbags of the same chamber are interconnected with each *** upper and lower chambers are separated by an intermediate layer(thin plate),which is extended and widened to achieve robot movement and *** applying pressure to the different chambers of the soft robot,it is possible to produce a variety of bionic movements of the inchworm and *** to the strong nonlinearity and infinite number of degrees of freedom properties of the material,it is impossible to obtain the analytical solution of the bending morphology and pressure of the soft robot ***,a method to establish a mathematical model of soft robot deformation based on the classical stacked plate theory is proposed,and a chain composite model of soft robot bending motion is established based on the large-deflection modeling *** paper proposes a method to generate a multi-mode soft robot motion control based on the Central Pattern Generator(CPG)using a single controller,which achieves the switching of sine wave-like patterns,half-wave-like patterns,and dragging patterns by adjust-ing frequency,amplitude and period of ***,a pneumatic control platform is built for the validation of the theoretical model and different experimental models of the motion of the *** comparation of the different motion modes of the soft robot under similar non-load and load conditions.
Dear Editor,This letter studies the bipartite consensus tracking problem for heterogeneous multi-agent systems with actuator faults and a leader's unknown time-varying control input. To handle such a problem, the ...
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Dear Editor,This letter studies the bipartite consensus tracking problem for heterogeneous multi-agent systems with actuator faults and a leader's unknown time-varying control input. To handle such a problem, the continuous fault-tolerant control protocol via observer design is developed. In addition, it is strictly proved that the multi-agent system driven by the designed controllers can still achieve bipartite consensus tracking after faults occur.
Facial Expression Recognition (FER) aims to cate-gorize emotional expressions depicted on a human face, and isa challenging task under unconstrained conditions, such as faceocclusions and pose variations. Recent metho...
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As for the ultra-precision grinding of the hemispherical fused silica resonator,due to the hard and brittle nature of fused silica,subsurface damage(SSD)is easily generated,which enormously influences the performance ...
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As for the ultra-precision grinding of the hemispherical fused silica resonator,due to the hard and brittle nature of fused silica,subsurface damage(SSD)is easily generated,which enormously influences the performance of such ***,ultra-precision grinding experiments are carried out to investigate the surface/subsurface quality of the hemispherical resonator machined by the small ball-end fine diamond grinding *** influence of grinding parameters on the surface roughness(SR)and SSD depth of fused silica samples is then *** experimental results indicate that the SR and SSD depth decreased with the increase of grinding speed and the decrease of feed rate and grinding *** addition,based on the material strain rate and the maximum undeformed chip thickness,the effect of grinding parameters on the subsurface damage mechanism of fused silica samples is ***,a multi-step ultra-precision grinding technique of the hemispherical resonator is proposed based on the interaction influence between grinding depth and feed ***,the hemispherical resonator is processed by the proposed grinding technique,and the SR is improved from 454.328 nm to 110.449 nm while the SSD depth is reduced by 94%from 40μm to 2.379μ*** multi-step grinding technique proposed in this paper can guide the fabrication of the hemispherical resonator.
The thermal shock of subsurface material with shear instability and severe plastic flow during scuffing was *** scuffing damage of M50 steel was tested using a high-speed rolling-sliding contact test rig,and the trans...
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The thermal shock of subsurface material with shear instability and severe plastic flow during scuffing was *** scuffing damage of M50 steel was tested using a high-speed rolling-sliding contact test rig,and the transient temperature during scuffing was calculated using the Fourier transform method considering the effects of both frictional heat and plastic *** results show that a thermal shock with a rapid rise and subsequent rapid decrease in the contact temperature is generated in the subsurface *** frictional power intensity generates a high temperature rise,leading to the austenitization of the subsurface ***,the plastic flow is generated in the subsurface layer under the high shear stress,and the resulting plastic strain energy generates a further temperature ***,a rapid decrease in the contact temperature quenches the material,resulting in clear shear slip bands and retained austenite in the subsurface layers of the M50 steel.
Versatile jumping is crucial for agile and adaptive behavior of humanoid robots in complex environments. However, humanoid robots have to manage impact forces while maintaining balance and stability throughout the tak...
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Robustness walking and recovery ability in uneven terrains and unexpected collisions are crucial for the practical application of humanoid ***, existing methods struggle to effectively balance stability, motion safety...
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