...Yang Gao; Jan Peters; Antonios Tsourdos; Sajjad Shoja Majidabad; Heydar Toosian Shandiz Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop sliding mode control with linear and nonlinear manifolds in discrete‐time domain for robot manipulators. Design/methodology/approach First, a discrete linear...

...Fei Chen; Kosuke Sekiyama; Jian Huang; Baiqing Sun; Hironobu Sasaki; Toshio Fukuda Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a model of assembly strategy generation and selection for human and robot coordinated (HRC) cell assembly. High‐Mix, Low‐Volume production in small production...

... on the advantage of the robot regressor dynamics that express the highly non‐linear robot dynamics in a linear form in terms of the known and unknown robot parameters. The update law for the unknown dynamic parameters is obtained using Lyapunov theory. Findings Simulation experiments show the effectiveness...

...Tonglin Liu; Chengdong Wu; Bin Li; Shugen Ma; Jinguo Liu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a shape‐shifting robot with diverse configurations, named “AMOEBA‐I”, which has been developed for search and rescue operations. The accessibility of this robot to unstructured environment...

...Daniel Lockery; James F. Peters Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report upon research into developing a biologically inspired target‐tracking system (TTS) capable of acquiring quality images of a known target type for a robotic inspection application. Design/methodology/approach...