Path planning in dynamic environments is an important guarantee for mobile robots to complete navigation tasks safely. However, human motion is unpredictable, changing its speed or direction arbitrarily, and tradition...
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(数字)9781728164168
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(纸本)9781728164175
Path planning in dynamic environments is an important guarantee for mobile robots to complete navigation tasks safely. However, human motion is unpredictable, changing its speed or direction arbitrarily, and traditional dynamic obstacle avoidance strategies based on object detection require massive computing resources in the prediction step, which reduces the real time characteristics of the system. To address this question, we propose a dynamic obstacle avoidance framework. It defines the environment as a random dynamic system by using dynamic grid maps, and obtains the velocity of multiple objects with low delay under GPU parallel acceleration calculations. Naturally, we introduce the relative velocity into the artificial potential field function. By expanding the data structure of costmaps, the dynamic grid map is effectively connected with the local obstacle avoidance algorithm. Our approach reduces the detour time of the robot and improves the system security.
Human walking gait is much more natural looking and energy efficient compared with biped robots. This paper presents a bio-inspired approach to realizing more human-like biped robotic walking. For this purpose, a bipe...
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(数字)9781728169040
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(纸本)9781728169057
Human walking gait is much more natural looking and energy efficient compared with biped robots. This paper presents a bio-inspired approach to realizing more human-like biped robotic walking. For this purpose, a biped robot actuated coordinately by pneumatic artificial muscles and springs is developed, capable of exploiting passive compliance of the mechanical system in locomotion. And a control scheme for human-like walking is designed based on finite state machine. Experiments show that the biped robot can walk stably on the treadmill even with some small obstacles. The realized gait has the important features of human walking, including heel strike and toe off, stretched knees, and variation in the height of the body's center of mass, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Single focused beams have shown great potential in acoustofluidics and medical ultrasound because of their large pressure gradient and acoustic-thermal effect, such as acoustical tweezers and high-intensity focused ul...
Single focused beams have shown great potential in acoustofluidics and medical ultrasound because of their large pressure gradient and acoustic-thermal effect, such as acoustical tweezers and high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) technique. However, the three-dimensional trapping of typical cells is still challenging since cells in water have a positive acoustic contrast factor and will be repulsive from the focus [Gong and Baudoin, Phys. Rev. Applied 18, 044033 (2022)]. In this work, to reverse this positive acoustic contrast factor into negative, we propose to use a cell-friendly medium (made of iodixanol with water) [Augustsson et al., Nat. Commun. 7, 11556 (2016)]. This enables a single focused beam to selectively trap and control cells in 3‐D, and more importantly, keeps the manipulated cells with good viability. This work will extend the applications of acoustical tweezers, which may be beneficial to single cell analysis, cellular phenotyping, precise assembly of different cells in tissue engineering, and controlled drug delivery.
A cross-spring flexure pivot with variable cross-section is studied in this paper, with the purpose of overcoming the disadvantages of the conventional cross-spring flexure pivot with uniform cross-section, such as ax...
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Compared with the conventional drill driven by magnetic motors, percussive ultrasonic drill (PUD) shows advantages of small size, low power, low axial load, and lubrication free, making it available for the extraterre...
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In the pursuit of accurate lunar soil volatile exploration, in-situ deep space sampling analysis offers unparalleled preservation of sample integrity. A critical challenge lies in ensuring a secure sealing environment...
In the pursuit of accurate lunar soil volatile exploration, in-situ deep space sampling analysis offers unparalleled preservation of sample integrity. A critical challenge lies in ensuring a secure sealing environment. This paper introduces an innovative sealing method utilising a ceramic blade to compress a non-metallic seal. Initially, following a comprehensive multidimensional evaluation of sealing configurations, the ceramic knife-edge compression non-metallic sealing ring solution was determined to be optimal. This approach involves positioning the sealing ring within a grooved cylindrical heating furnace body, where radial compression is achieved through an annular ceramic knife-edge interface, thereby ensuring hermetic integrity. Subsequently, a sealing leakage model grounded in Roth theory was developed to elucidate micro-leakage mechanisms. ANSYS simulation software was utilised to investigate the influence of blade tip radius and temperature, revealing correlations with average stress and contact width, as well as the impact of temperature extremes on sealing efficacy. These findings provided the theoretical underpinning for subsequent ground tests. A dedicated test platform was established, adhering to the industry standard QJ3089A-2018, to evaluate the sealing performance of various seal and blade tip radius combinations under diverse conditions. Results indicated that, under a force of 500N, PTFE seals compressed by an R0.5mm blade and PVMQ seals compressed by an R0.6mm blade achieved leakage rates on the order of 10 -8 Pa·m 3 ·s -1 , aligning with theoretical predictions and demonstrating repeatable sealing capability. This study presents a novel and reliable sealing solution for the precise exploration of lunar soil volatiles, offering a technical breakthrough and robust sealing strategy for future deep space missions.
Achieving versatile and efficient walking on biped robots is an important research objective. The impact between the foot and the ground has significant effects on the walking stability of biped robots. Research on hu...
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The null space of the Jacobian for the redundant manipulators can be utilized to reach dual control goals and optimal effects. For the flexible base redundant manipulator system, the reaction force from the motion of ...
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Rapidly-exploring Random Tree Star (RRT * ) and its variants can provide a collision-free and asymptotic optimal solution for many path planning problems. However, it is inefficient for many RRT * based variants to r...
Rapidly-exploring Random Tree Star (RRT * ) and its variants can provide a collision-free and asymptotic optimal solution for many path planning problems. However, it is inefficient for many RRT * based variants to rapidly find one initial solution in a clustered environment with narrow passages, since consuming high memory as well as time, due to a large number of iterations in sampling critical nodes. To overcome this problem, the paper proposes the Locally Guided Multiple Bi-RRT * (LGM-BRRT * ) method, which can provide a fast solution by incorporating an improved bridge-test and a novel search strategy based on local guidance. It ensures an accelerated success rate and more efficient memory utilization compared with Bidirectional RRT * (BRRT * ), and it is easy for implementation as well. It was verified on different types of scenarios in terms of efficiency and success rate. The results demonstrated that LGM-BRRT * is beneficial for fast path planning in a clustered environment with narrow passages.
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