... 08 2009 02 02 2010 03 05 2010 aerodynamics aerospace control aerospace robotics drag microrobots mobile robots position control robot kinematics linkages robotic systems robot kinematics bio-inspired robotics power transmission Biological insects are among...

.... Mach. Theory 0094-114X , 38 , pp. 1469 – 1487 . 10.1016/S0094-114X(03)00098-3 Hendriks , F. , 1983 , “ Bounce and Chaotic Motion in Print Hammers ,” IBM J. Res. Dev. 0018-8646 , 27 ( 3 ), pp. 273 – 280 . Fite , K. , and Goldfarb , M. , 1999 , “ Position Control...

... Comparison of Planar Parallel Manipulators ,” IRCCyN Internal Report No. IRCCyN091023. algebra dexterous manipulators manipulator kinematics position control sensitivity analysis Variations in the geometric parameters of parallel kinematics machines (PKMs) can be either compensated...

... that further improves the position control by allowing series-elasticity in only one rotational direction. The evolution of legged robot innovation has continually been to develop higher performing, biomimetic systems. In general, SEAs developed for these systems must endure high loads yet still...

.... 21 10 2008 22 03 2009 27 05 2009 beams (structures) drives fasteners fatigue finite element analysis machine bearings machine tools position control servomechanisms springs (mechanical) vibrations ball screw finite element feed drive lateral vibrations dynamic...

... to the desired basic functions of the robot mechanism. robot mechanism topological structure position and orientation characteristic symbolic operation control system analysis control system synthesis motion control position control robot kinematics topology 02 10 2006 04 06...

.... , and Park , F. , 2002 , “ Kinematic Sensitivity Analysis of the 3-UPU Parallel Mechanism ,” Mech. Mach. Theory 0094-114X 10.1016/S0094-114X(02)00021-6 , 37 , pp. 787 – 798 . 22 03 2007 06 10 2008 16 12 2008 end effectors error analysis position control error...

... parallel mechanisms Delta robot elastic deformation manipulators position control prototypes 15 02 2007 02 07 2007 22 05 2008 2008 American Society of Mechanical Engineers ...

... the combination. 28 05 2007 12 10 2007 14 04 2008 manipulator kinematics position control In an m -legged six-DOF wrist-partitioned parallel manipulator (Fig. 1a ), the moving platform is connected to the base through m legs in parallel. Each leg is composed of six R...

... , Science , Beijing, in Chinese. 17 08 2006 16 04 2007 27 12 2007 bifurcation manipulator kinematics position control Parallel mechanisms possess remarkable advantages over serial mechanisms in terms of load-carrying capacity, high accuracy, and stiffness. On the other...

... kinematics position control A mechanical palm of a robotic hand is usually designed as a nonfoldable block incorporated with fingers. Its work space and graspability depend on the volume of the palm and the length of the fingers. Since the palm is nonfoldable, the number of fingers needs...

... not demand such workspaces but accuracy and light weight, respectively. Part of this technical brief was published in the Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Robotics and Mechanisms. redundant manipulators industrial manipulators position control 2007 American Society of Mechanical...

... and incompatibility of simultaneous position and force control in the same direction are circumvented. The applications of this theory are demonstrated in simulation experiments with both serial and parallel manipulators. 16 05 2005 28 02 2006 target tracking force control position control open...

.... The research reveals that appropriate numerical methods and synthesis equations can be chosen for obtaining most solutions efficiently and provide a complete solution set of a precision position synthesis problem within a domain of interest. 17 05 2005 02 02 2006 manipulators position...

... effectors position control Fourier analysis optimisation closed loop systems Coupled serial chains are a novel mechanism configuration formed by coupling the distal joint rotations of multilink serial chain to their proximal joint rotations, using either gears or cable-pulley drives 1 . Each...

... by integrating one of the three active limbs into the passive one. The analytical method is employed to obtain the forward position solutions. It shows that the forward position analysis of the TriVariant is much simpler than that of the Tricept. 21 06 2004 20 03 2005 position control robots...

... 02 03 2005 manipulator kinematics robots position control This paper focuses on positioning 3R orthogonal manipulators, i.e., positioning 3R manipulators with orthogonal joint axes. A positioning manipulator may be used as such for positioning tasks in the Cartesian space ( x...

... 2004 02 03 2005 Contributed by the Mechanisms and Robotics Committee for publication in the JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL DESIGN . Manuscript received March 26, 2003; revised April 20, 2004. Associate Editor: C. Mavroidis. manipulators bifurcation Jacobian matrices position control...

... was discussed by Kim and Tsai 17 . So far only two singular configurations of this manipulator were found 18 , no other singular positions of this manipulator have been determined. manipulators Jacobian matrices position control constraint theory 27 March 2003 17 March 2004 14 02...

... OF MECHANICAL DESIGN . Manuscript received June 2003; rev. January 2004. Associate Editor: G. R. Pennock. 01 June 2003 01 January 2004 28 10 2004 rotation kinematics position control A fully reversed (FR) sequence of rotations is defined here as a series of rotations about...