To help swimmers improve, we have developed a computational swimming model using underwater manipulator dynamics. We formulate the equations of the underwater manipulator dynamics using the fluid drag, which is proportional to the square of the velocity. We construct a swimming model consisting of several links based on these equations. The distance traveled by the optimal swimming motion is de...

This paper describes an experimental testing apparatus set up by the authors in order to validate the effectiveness of the motion input pre-shaping technique for the open-loop control in microgravity environment. The system consists of a two flexible links planar manipulator suspended on special air-pads floating on a planar friction-free glass surface. Since the friction between the two pads m...

Model uncertainty is an important factor hindering reliability of any modelbased failure detection and identification (FDI) method. Use of joint torque sensing reduces significantly the complexity of robot modeling by excluding hardly-identifiable link dynamics from overall manipulator dynamics. Application of such model in the proposed FDI filter increases reliability of fault monitoring again...

Title of Dissertation: A THREE DEGREE OF FREEDOM PARALLEL MANIPULATOR WITH ONLY TRANSLATIONAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM Richard Eugene Stamper, Doctor of Philosophy, 1997 Dissertation directed by: Professor Lung-Wen Tsai Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Systems Research In this dissertation, a novel parallel manipulator is investigated. The manipulator has three degrees of freedo...

Nonlinearities and parametric uncertainties are unavoidable problems faced in controlling robot manipulator. A single link manipulator driven by a permanent magnet brushed dc motor is a nonlinear dynamics due to effects of gravitational force, mass of the payload, posture of the manipulator and viscous friction coefficient. Furthermore, uncertainties arise because of changes of the rotor resist...

The problem of controlling force and position of a exible link manipulator in contact with a compliant environment is considered in this paper. Using singular perturbation theory, a slow subsystem associated with rigid motion dynamics and a fast subsystem associated with link exible dynamics are identi ed. Hence a two-time scale control strategy is adopted, consisting in a force and position co...

This paper presents the design and implementation of a systematic fuzzy modelling methodology for the inverse dynamic modelling of robot manipulators. The fuzzy logic modelling methodology is motivated in part by the difficulties encountered in the modelling of complex nonlinear uncertain systems, and by the objective of developing an efficient dynamic model for the real-time model-based contro...

This paper presents a planning algorithm for a 2DOF robotic arm to bat flying 2D objects to a targeted location. Impact dynamics are combined with trajectory kinematics and manipulator dynamics to compute the evolving set of states (poses and motions) of the arm able to achieve the task as the object is flying. Planning is conducted under the arm’s dynamic and kinematic constraints. At the time...

In a number of industrial, space, or mobile systems applications, reaction forces and moments transmitted by a manipulator to its base are undesirable. Based on force and moment transmission analysis, a three DOF redundant manipulator design is selected aiming at reactionless motions. Dynamic reaction forces are eliminated by using force balancing. Reaction moments are eliminated by following r...

This paper presents a novel approach for controlling electrically driven robot manipulators based on voltage control. The voltage-based control is preferred comparing to torque-based control. This approach is robust in the presence of manipulator uncertainties since it is free of the manipulator model. The control law is very simple, fast response, efficient, robust, and can be used for high-sp...