Search Results - "Robotics and biomimetics"

Cognition-based variable admittance control for active compliance in flexible manipulation of heavy objects with a power-assist robotic system by Mizanoor Rahman, S. M., Ikeura, Ryojun

“…In the first step, a 1-DOF power-assist robotic system (PARS) is developed for lifting lightweight objects. Dynamics for human–robot co-manipulation of objects…”
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PID, BFO-optimized PID, and PD-FLC control of a two-wheeled machine with two-direction handling mechanism: a comparative study by Goher, K. M., Fadlallah, S. O.

“…In this paper; three control approaches are utilized in order to control the stability of a novel five-degrees-of-freedom two-wheeled robotic machine designed…”
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Systematic engineering design helps creating new soft machines by Seibel, Arthur, Schiller, Lars

“…Soft robotics is an emerging field in the robotics community which deals with completely new types of robots. However, often new soft robotic designs depend on…”
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Hybrid control combined with a voluntary biosignal to control a prosthetic hand by Bahrami Moqadam, Saeed, Elahi, Seyed Mohammad, Mo, An, Zhang, WenZeng

“…In this research, the combination of fuzzy/PD and EMG signals, as direct command control, is proposed. Although fuzzy/PD strategy was used to control force…”
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A 6-DOF robot-time optimal trajectory planning based on an improved genetic algorithm by Zhang, Jiayan, Meng, Qingxi, Feng, Xugang, Shen, Hao

“…By using quintic polynomial function to interpolate several given points of each joint of the robot, the mathematical expressions of each joint variable of the…”
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A multi-jointed underactuated robot hand with fluid-driven stretchable tubes by Wei, Yuangen, Ma, Yini, Zhang, Wenzeng

“…Inspired from flexible bending of octopus’ tentacles and outside-driving kind of traditional exoskeletons, this paper proposed a novel self-adaptive…”
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Design of a novel wheeled tensegrity robot: a comparison of tensegrity concepts and a prototype for travelling air ducts by Carreño, Francisco, Post, Mark A.

“…Efforts in the research of tensegrity structures applied to mobile robots have recently been focused on a purely tensegrity solution to all design…”
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Implementation of Q learning and deep Q network for controlling a self balancing robot model by Rahman, MD Muhaimin, Rashid, S. M. Hasanur, Hossain, M. M.

“…In this paper, the implementations of two reinforcement learnings namely, Q learning and deep Q network (DQN) on the Gazebo model of a self balancing robot…”
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Grasping state estimation of printable soft gripper using electro-conductive yarn by Matsuno, Takahiro, Wang, Zhongkui, Hirai, Shinichi

“…Automatic handling of many types of food materials are required to realize the automation of production of commercially prepared box lunches. A printable soft…”
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Accuracy to detection timing for assisting repetitive facilitation exercise system using MRCP and SVM by Miura, Satoshi, Takazawa, Junichi, Kobayashi, Yo, Fujie, Masakatsu G.

“…This paper presents a feasibility study of a brain–machine interface system to assist repetitive facilitation exercise. Repetitive facilitation exercise is an…”
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Comparison of different soft grippers for lunch box packaging by Wang, Zhongkui, Zhu, Mingzhu, Kawamura, Sadao, Hirai, Shinichi

“…Automating the lunch box packaging is a challenging task due to the high deformability and large individual differences in shape and physical property of food…”
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A new multiple robot path planning algorithm: dynamic distributed particle swarm optimization by Ayari, Asma, Bouamama, Sadok

“…Multiple robot systems have become a major study concern in the field of robotic research. Their control becomes unreliable and even infeasible if the number…”
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Assessment of personal care and medical robots from older adults’ perspective by Goher, K. M., Mansouri, N., Fadlallah, S. O.

“…Demographic reports indicate that population of older adults is growing significantly over the world and in particular in developed nations. Consequently,…”
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Ethical framework of assistive devices: review and reflection by Mansouri, Nazanin, Goher, Khaled, Hosseini, Seyed Ebrahim

“…The population of ageing is growing significantly over the world, and there is an emerging demand for better healthcare services and more care centres…”
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Bacterial foraging-optimized PID control of a two-wheeled machine with a two-directional handling mechanism by Goher, K. M., Fadlallah, S. O.

“…This paper presents the performance of utilizing a bacterial foraging optimization algorithm on a PID control scheme for controlling a five DOF two-wheeled…”
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A novel inspection robot for nuclear station steam generator secondary side with self-localization by Li, Jinke, Wu, Xinyu, Xu, Tiantian, Guo, Huiwen, Sun, Jianquan, Gao, Qingshi

“…Nuclear energy is one of the most important clean energy on earth presently. The steam generator secondary side is the key device of nuclear power station. As…”
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A tracked robot with novel bio-inspired passive “legs” by Sun, Bo, Jing, Xingjian

“…For track-based robots, an important aspect is the suppression design, which determines the trafficability and comfort of the whole system. The trafficability…”
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PSD microscopy: a new technique for adaptive local scanning of microscale objects by Rahimi, Mehdi, Shen, Yantao

“…A position-sensitive detector/device (PSD) is a sensor that is capable of tracking the location of a laser beam on its surface. PSDs are used in many…”
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Object recognition combining vision and touch by Corradi, Tadeo, Hall, Peter, Iravani, Pejman

“…This paper explores ways of combining vision and touch for the purpose of object recognition. In particular, it focuses on scenarios when there are few tactile…”
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Studying slippage on pushing applications with snake robots by Reyes, Fabian, Ma, Shugen

“…In this paper, a framework for analyzing the motion resulting from the interaction between a snake robot and an object is shown. Metrics are derived to study…”
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