The thermal spraying surface engineering industry relies on manual spraying and standard pre-programmed robotic systems. This research presents the completed geometric forward and inverse kinematics solution for a non standard articulated robotic manipulator which includes continuous 360 axis rotation for waist, shoulder and elbow joints with a commercially available joint for tilt and pitch. T...

A robotic manipulator has been mounted to an electric wheelchair to assist people with disabilities. Particular emphasis has been given to the constraints and requirements for wheelchair mounting.

The interaction of a robotic manipulator with unknown soft objects represents a significant challenge for traditional robotic platforms because of the difficulty in controlling the grasping force between a soft object and a stiff manipulator. Soft robotic actuators inspired by elephant trunks, octopus limbs and muscular hydrostats are suggestive of ways to overcome this fundamental difficulty. ...

In this paper, a mathematical model of flexible single link robotic manipulator that has a rotational base and translational motion has been developed using lagrangian method. The control strategies like PID, LQR and State feedback controller have been implemented for controlling the tip position of flexible single link robotic manipulators through MATLAB. State feedback controller uses pole pl...

Fault tolerance has become an essential capability in manipulator design methodologies as robotic manipulation systems are more frequently employed in hazardous environments and on geometrically complex or heavy duty industrial operations, where mechanical joint failures are likely to occur. This work focuses on the development of a redundant manipulator design methodology aimed at minimizing t...

This paper presents a three degree-of-freedom (3DOF) closed-loop position and 2-DOF open-loop orientation control method for an untethered mockup magnetic capsule endoscope in fluid with a single permanent magnet positioned by a commercial robotic manipulator and a 3-DOF capsuleposition localization system. Using traditional methods known to roboticists, we study the kinematics of untethered ma...

The method of end-effector pose accuracy improvement using joint error mutual compensation for robotic manipulators with rotation joints was presented. The computer simulation and experiments of the developed method showed that it was possible to perform the technological operations with a higher accuracy in the special areas of the robot working space using the developed approach. The method p...

Parallel manipulators are robotic devices that differ from the more traditional serial robotic manipulators by their kinematic structure. Parallel manipulators are composed of multiple closed kinematic loops. Typically, these kinematic loops are formed by two or more kinematic chains that connect a moving platform to a base, where one joint in the chain is actuated and the other joints are pass...

In this paper, genetic algorithms are used to robustify digital multivariable PID controllers for robotic manipulators. This process of robustification is effected by using genetic algorithms to determine the optimal set of controller tuning parameters for typical trajectorytracking tasks. This use of genetic algorithms is illustrated by the design of a digital trajectory-tracking controller fo...

This paper describes the design of a novel sliding mode controller for tracking of robotic manipulators. By using a proportional-integral combination of the sliding function in the boundary layer, control chattering is eliminated without deterioration of system robustness. Theoretical developments are verified by simulation results for the tracking problem of a 2 DOF robotic manipulator.