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CDC
2009
IEEE
173views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Fault tolerant control allocation for a thruster-controlled floating platform using parametric programming
— The task in control allocation is to determine how to generate a specified generalized force from a redundant set of control effectors where the associated actuator control in...
Jørgen Spjøtvold, Tor Arne Johansen
TASE
2011
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
A Totally Decoupled Piezo-Driven XYZ Flexure Parallel Micropositioning Stage for Micro/Nanomanipulation
—This paper reports the design and development processes of a totally decoupled flexure-based XYZ parallel-kinematics micropositioning stage with piezoelectric actuation. The un...
Yangmin Li, Qingsong Xu
ICRA
2008
IEEE
116views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
14 years 4 months ago
Cooperative manipulation on the water using a swarm of autonomous tugboats
— In this paper we present a strategy that allows a swarm of autonomous tugboats to cooperatively move a large object on the water. The two main challenges are: (1) the actuators...
Joel M. Esposito, Matthew Feemster, Erik Smith
CDC
2008
IEEE
103views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
Control of an pseudo-omnidirectional, non-holonomic, mobile robot based on an ICM representation in spherical coordinates
— For mobile platforms with steerable standard wheels it is necessary to precisely coordinate rotation and steering angle of their wheels. Especially for redundantly actuated pla...
Christian Pascal Connette, Andreas Pott, Martin H&...
IROS
2006
IEEE
131views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
14 years 3 months ago
A Cockroach Inspired Robot With Artificial Muscles
A robot, CWRU Robot V (Ajax) has been constructed based on the death head cockroach, Blaberus discoidalis. In an attempt to further take advantage of the neuromechanics of the ani...
Daniel A. Kingsley, Roger D. Quinn, Roy E. Ritzman...