This paper introduces a novel method for Cartesian trajectory and performance optimization control of kinematically-redundant trussbased manipulators (TBMs), The Virtual Serial Manipulator Approach. The approach is to model complex in-parallel-actuated TBMs as simpler kinematically-equivalent virtual serial manipulators. Standard control methods for kinematically-redundant serial manipulators c...

Many studies have been conducted for quantitative/qualitative analysis and comparison of various teleoperation schemes. Position-position, force-position and 4-channels are to name a few. However most of this research has been focused on electrically actuated manipulators. This paper documents the comparative study of various teleoperation schemes explicitly for hydraulic manipulators. Identica...

Nuclear reactor pressure vessels are often required regular inspection and maintenance in order to ensure the safety of the reactors. Failing to carry out proper maintenance could cause severe casualty. The usual way of carrying out inspection in these hazardous environments is using long reach fixed base manipulators. However, these manipulators suffer from low payload capacity and relatively ...

Since a parallel structure is a closed kinematics chain, all legs are connected from the origin of the tool point by a parallel connection. This connection allows a higher precision and a higher velocity. Parallel kinematic manipulators have better performance compared to serial kinematic manipulators in terms of a high degree of accuracy, high speeds or accelerations and high stiffness. Theref...

A systematic study is performed for the workspace characteristics and orientation capability analysis of 3R planar manipulators. This study will aid the design and control of this kind of manipulators. This particular manipulator is well suited for industrial applications in aided automation manufacturing as well as medical applications for orthopaedic surgery robotics and micro holder for tact...

tthe uncertainty estimation and compensation are challenging problems for the robust control of robot manipulators which are complex systems. this paper presents a novel decentralized model-free robust controller for electrically driven robot manipulators. as a novelty, the proposed controller employs a simple gaussian radial-basis-function network as an uncertainty estimator. the proposed netw...

In this paper we present the synthesis of novel reactionless spatial three-degrees-of-freedom (3-DoF) and 6-DoF mechanisms without any separate counter-rotation, using four-bar linkages. Based on the conditions of dynamic balancing of a single planar four-bar linkage developed elsewhere, the spatial problem is shown to be equivalent to ensuring that the inertia tensor of reactionless four-bar l...

This paper presents solution of kinematics analysis of a specific class of serial-parallel manipulators, known as 2-(6UPS) manipulators, which are composed of several modules consisting of elementary manipulators with the parallel structure of the Stewart platform, by artificial neural network. At first, the kinematics model of the hybrid manipulator is obtained. Then, as the inverse kinematics...

This paper presents the work done to investigate the potential of applying Genetic Algorithms (GA’s) to automate the path planning of cooperative construction manipulators. Though there is potential to achieve economy by using cooperative manipulators, this method is not being commonly adopted in construction sites. A key barrier to the use of cooperative manipulators is the meticulous planning...

Parallel manipulators with a rotation-symmetric arm system possess all the typical advantages of parallel robots, such as high acceleration and high-accuracy positioning. Contrary to the majority of proposed parallel manipulators, the rotation-symmetric arm system leads to a large workspace in relation to the footprint of the manipulator. This paper focuses on a subclass of these manipulators w...