... gravity compensation system, and a novel cabling power transmission. Control Control systems Design for manufacture Force control In parallel haptic devices, motors are usually fixed to the base of the robot, thus the mass of the motor's body and housing is excluded from the effective mass...

... 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...

... by NASA's rovers Spirit and Opportunity for planetary exploration (Maimone et al., 2004). Robots Motion Control systems Field robotics Articulated suspension system Rover modeling Wheel cambering mechanism For mobile robots driving across natural terrain, it is critical...

... 2013 Gokhan Bayar can be contacted at: gbayar@gmail.com Control systems Robots Trajectories Tracking Autonomous industrial robotics Control industrial robotics Automated guided vehicles Industrial robotics Nowadays modern agriculture needs some autonomous solutions...

...Shiqi Li © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 --> Actuators Control systems Electric motors Robotics Shanchun Wei, Meng Kong, Tao Lin and Shanben Chen This article originally appeared in Volume 38 Number 5, 2011, Industrial Robot An International Journal...

... and the LCP through a communication protocol and delegates functions to the slave microcontrollers. Robots Control systems Computer software Feeding devices Aquaculture greenhouse Robotic system Feeder system Water monitoring A Basic Stamp 2p40 microcontroller is used as slave to control...

...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...

...@hotmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Stability (control theory) Control systems Uncertainty management Eye‐in‐hand Linear matrix inequality Uncalibrated Eye‐in‐hand image‐based visual servoing is a well‐known technique that computes control values on the basis of image...

... to limit tracking errors. 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...

... 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...

... this concept on real robots. Robots Control systems Humanoid robot Recurrent neural networks Machine vision Autonomous navigation in unknown environments is an important and challenging problem in mobile robotics. It requires the robot to plan its motion for approaching goals and avoiding...

... can be contacted at: r.gault@shef.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Robotics Advanced manufacturing technologies Control systems Additive manufacturing Welding Shaped metal deposition Parts Metals Although SMD has the potential for large savings in lead time...

... and at sea. 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...

... 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...

..., M_d represents the torque of the motor, and we have defined the positive direction is clockwise and n represents the real rotate speed of the motor. Xueshan Gao can be contacted at: xueshan.gao@bit.edu.cn © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Robots Control systems...

... in the Newton‐Euler equations. In these algorithms, the motion equations are expressed in closed form, thus yielding to a high computational complexity, generally of order O(n^{4). Robotics Control systems Programming and algorithm theory Modelling In this work, a robotic manipulator dynamic}...

.... Lyapunov's direct method is utilized which ensures system stability and convergence. Robotics Control systems Umer Khan can be contacted at: m_umer_khan@hotmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 A2 There exists desired joint angle q _d for which feature...

... the control ability of force feedback. It composes an arm‐hand integration system with the manipulator. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Robotics Control systems Hierarchical control Space technology Sensors In recent years, the technology of redundant dual‐arm robot system...

... 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...

.... Practical implications The control system is applicable to automatic gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW). Originality/value The MISO MFC has been set up for automatic GTAW to overcome the nonlinear and uncertainty of GTAW process, in which two welding parameters can be adjusted simultaneously. In addition...