This paper will describe the kinematics and dynamics of parallel robot named Delta with 3 degree of freedom (d.o.f). The use of dynamics coupled with kinematics for the control of parallel robot has been gaining increasing popularity in recent years. Relationship between generalized and articular velocities is established, hence jacobian and inverse jacobian analyses are determines. The inverse...

Visual servoing of robot manipulators is a key technique where video images, i.e. the visual appearance of an object is used to control the end-e ector. Most such methods use robots and cameras that have been calibrated. In this report we suggest a non-metric formulation of visual servoing that works with an uncalibrated stereo rig, i.e. in the projective space associated with it. In consequenc...

In this chapter, a Recurrent Higher Order Neural Network (RHONN) is used to identify the plant model of discrete time nonlinear systems, under the assumption that all the state is available for measurement. Then the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) is used to train the RHONN. The applicability of this scheme is illustrated by identification for an electrically driven nonholonomic mobile robot. Trad...

Motion planning and redundancy resolution of a multi-segment continuum robot is studied. The direct and inverse kinematics model of the robot is derived assuming a constant radius of curvature in each flexible segment of the robot. Due to the primary and secondary backbone structure of the segment, each segment is modelled by two configuration variables and three joint space variables. This int...

Controlling a tendon-driven robot like the humanoid Ecce is a difficult task, even more so when its kinematics and its pose are not known precisely. In this paper, we present a visual motion capture system to allow both real-time measurements of robot joint angles and model estimation of its kinematics. Unlike other humanoid robots, Ecce (see Fig. 1A) is completely molded by hand and its joints...