... in the drivetrains of flight-capable biological insects. 19 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...

... kinematics position control three-term control compliant mechanisms nonlinear elastica theory parallel-arm mechanisms dynamics of compliant mechanism control of nonlinear springs dwell motion trajectory control The large-deflection analysis of flexible beams requires nonlinear...

... and ν p throughout the RDW of M 1 , M 2 , M 3 , and M 4 30 01 2009 05 10 2009 10 11 2009 10 11 2009 algebra dexterous manipulators manipulator kinematics position control sensitivity analysis Variations...

... that further improves the position control by allowing series-elasticity in only one rotational direction. The authors’ participation in this latter work revealed some of the practical difficulties with using helical torsion springs in SEAs for high-performance legged robots. First, the end of a helical...

... life of the mechanism, bandwidth of the servo systems, and positioning accuracy of the machine. 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...

... Design of Parallel Mechanisms ,” ASME Paper No. DETC2008-49075. control system analysis control system synthesis motion control position control robot kinematics topology robot mechanism topological structure position and orientation characteristic symbolic operation Theory...

... error analysis position control Joint clearance, which introduces extra degree-of-freedom (DOF) displacements between the pairing elements of a joint, is a major source for the degraded performance of the associated mechanism. It contributes directly to the pose (position and orientation) errors...

... can be presented by the following subgroups. balancing torque compensation parallel mechanisms Delta robot elastic deformation manipulators position control prototypes 15 02 2007 02 07 2007 22 05 2008 Maximal absolute positioning and orientation errors...

...   ̌ kinematic chain, and the number of (   ) E and (   ) S kinematic chains is not greater than 1. 28 05 2007 12 10 2007 14 04 2008 manipulator kinematics position control parallel mechanism wrist-partioned manipulator type synthesis Parallel...

... point. Here, we call this equation as the configuration bifurcation equation, or the bifurcation equation for short. 17 08 2006 16 04 2007 27 12 2007 bifurcation manipulator kinematics position control Parallel mechanisms possess remarkable advantages over serial...

... of the metamorphic palm. Trajectory synthesis procedure 27 10 2005 02 11 2006 approximation theory curve fitting geometry manipulator kinematics position control multifingered robotic hand robotic palm spherical mechanisms metamorphic mechanism geometry analysis synthesis...

... ,” J. Mech. Des. 1050-0472 10.1115/1.2121742 , 128 ( 1 ), pp. 230 – 235 . Gieck , K. , 1990 , Technische Formelsammlung , Vol. 29 , Gieck Verlag , Germany. redundant manipulators industrial manipulators position control Part of this technical brief was published...

... 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 A desired path-following task is presented as a set of prescribed end-effector positions to be matched or approximated as closely as possible by a SDCSC-configuration manipulator. Our interest is in the determination...

... 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...

... May 11, 2004. Associate Editor: C. Mavroidis. 21 October 2003 11 May 2004 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...

.... Mavroidis. 26 March 2003 20 April 2004 02 03 2005 manipulators bifurcation Jacobian matrices position control uncertainty handling The configuration bifurcations of Stewart parallel manipulators at singular positions induce the uncertainty of the moving trends...

... of 3RPS Parallel Manipulators,” Master thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tamkang University (in Chinese). Lin, J., 1999, Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables , McGraw-Hill, New York. manipulators Jacobian matrices position control constraint theory A parallel...

... returned to the original position at the end of an attitude maneuver. As a possible solution to this situation, a pseudo-wheel based FR sequences for attitude maneuvers was presented in 4 . rotation kinematics position control 2004 ASME ...