SIMPAR
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
Abstract. Existing legged robots lack energy-efficiency, performance and adaptivity when confronted with situations that animals cope with on a routine basis. Bridging the gap bet...
AUTOMATICA
2004
13 years 11 months ago
2004
Many electromagnetic actuators suffer from high velocity impacts. One such actuator is the electromechanical valve actuator, recently receiving attention for enabling variable val...
AUTOMATICA
2005
13 years 11 months ago
2005
This paper considers actuator redundancy management for a class of overactuated nonlinear systems. Two tools for distributing the control effort among a redundant set of actuators...
IJRR
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
— This paper presents a broadcast feedback approach to the distributed stochastic control of an actuator system consisting of many cellular units. This control architecture was i...
AMC
2006
13 years 11 months ago
2006
This paper presents common stabilizers for linear control systems when actuators happen to fail. The possible outage of actuators examined in this study are not confined to a pre-s...
ISER
1991
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
1991
Springer
Detailed knowledge of actuator properties is a prerequisite for advanced manipulator design and control. This paper deals with the experimental identification and modelling of the...
ISER
1995
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
1995
Springer
Most robot designers make the mechanical interface between an actuator and its load as stiff as possible[9][10]. This makes sense in traditional position-controlled systems, becau...
ICRA
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2000
IEEE
— We present a hydro-elastic actuator that has a linear spring intentionally placed in series between the hydraulic piston and actuator output. The spring strain is measured to g...
IROS
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE
—New actuators are greatly demanded today in order to develop magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)compatible mechatronic systems capable of extended and improved capabilities. They a...
IROS
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
— This paper describes a stochastic static analysis of link angle driven by actuator bundles. We first demonstrate a movement of a link driven by actuator bundles in terms of hi...