... ideas about the mechanism, cabling system and the gravity compensation. So, the above comparisons with Phantom are just based on mechanical characteristics of VirSense. The following observations can be extracted from Table I : © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Control Control...

... the correlation between the robot manoeuvre modes and the target tracking control into account, and particularly suits for the target tracking tasks in planetary exploration, surveillance and military applications. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Robots Tracking Control systems Target...

.... A variable camber mechanism is also presented. Robots Motion Control systems Field robotics Articulated suspension system Rover modeling Wheel cambering mechanism For mobile robots driving across natural terrain, it is critical to be endowed with an efficient locomotion system. Different...

...@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Control systems Robots Trajectories Tracking Autonomous industrial robotics Control industrial robotics Automated guided vehicles Industrial robotics Nowadays modern agriculture needs some autonomous solutions. Including cropping...

... 2013 Robots Control systems Computer software Feeding devices Aquaculture greenhouse Robotic system Feeder system Water monitoring Robotics has made considerable advances in a broad range of areas, from manipulation robots in industry, field robots for unstructured environments...

... frequency and duty ratio. PWM frequency is limited by the natural frequencies of structure with all postures. The theoretical duty ratio should be adjusted according to the clutch model. Two experiments-line tracking and arc-tracking are carried out to verify the effectiveness of the control system...

...Wei You; Minxiu Kong; Lining Sun; Yanbin Diao Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a control system for a heavy duty industrial robot, including both the control structure and algorithm, which was designed and tested. Design/methodology/approach An industrial PC with TwinCAT real...

... of attraction based upon quadratic Lyapunov function. Muhammad Umer Khan can be contacted at: m_umer_khan@hotmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Stability (control theory) Control systems Uncertainty management Eye‐in‐hand Linear matrix inequality Uncalibrated...

.... Appearance of our palletizing robot is shown in Figure 1 . Its manipulator moves in some way following the control system's command. The robot control system utilizes a commonly used frame and is mainly composed of three levels (Figure 2): an upper computer based on an embedded industrial personal computer...

... control. The control system consists of two neural network controllers, two standard PD controllers and a robot walking planar. The proposed neural network controller has three layers, which are input, hidden, and output layers. Originality/value This paper presents results of research work...

... to Mode 3. (e) The current hit‐point is reached again without the occurrence of event c after the last time that it was met. The goal is unreachable. Stop. 1. Mode 3. Move in the direction described in equation (7), until any following event occurs: Robots Control systems...

...‐time operating system directly drives the sensor and actuator control boards. A high‐level user control panel monitors the process, gathers the welding measurements and provides the controller set points. Robotics Advanced manufacturing technologies Control systems Additive manufacturing...

... when n=0, which is vital for the control systems. Xueshan Gao can be contacted at: xueshan.gao@bit.edu.cn © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Robots Control systems Fuzzy logical control has been considered as the most attractive approach due to the simplicity...

.... Naoyuki Takesue can be contacted at: ntakesue@sd.tmu.ac.jp © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Water transport Control systems Microcomputers Balancing A lot of unique transportation devices on the ground have been developed (Winglet, www2.toyota.co.jp/jp/tech/p¥_mobility...

... behavioral data and hypothesized control systems to develop some remarkably agile robots. The purpose of this paper is to show how it is possible to implement models of relatively recent discoveries of the stick insect's local control system (its thoracic ganglia) for hexapod robot controllers. Design...

...@ai2.upv.es © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Robotics Control systems Programming and algorithm theory Modelling In this work, a robotic manipulator dynamic model is developed starting from the Gibbs‐Appell equations. It is assumed that the robot is constituted by rigid...

.... Lyapunov's direct method is utilized which ensures system stability and convergence. Umer Khan can be contacted at: m_umer_khan@hotmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Robotics Control systems Standard visual servoing approaches proposed in the literature mainly...

... corresponding to the step 7 and 8 as follows: Do: Close jaw; © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Robotics Control systems Hierarchical control Space technology Sensors In recent years, the technology of redundant dual‐arm robot system for space‐station operation has got...

... of structure with all postures. The theoretical duty ratio should be adjusted according to the clutch model. Two experiments – line tracking and arc tracking – are carried out to verify the effectiveness of the control system. Findings The study has designed a manipulator with six joints driven by a single...

... with other minimum‐time trajectory‐planning methods, thus making it suitable for online implementation. Joonyoung Kim can be contacted at: joonkim@hhi.co.kr © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Control systems Dynamics Robotics Trajectories The high speed of a robot is one...