Flexible-link manipulators have high demand in many industrial and space applications. This is simply because they have many advantages over the rigid manipulators such as light weight, fast response time and large payload capacity. Optimal trajectories for a two-link rigid-flexible manipulator based on trajectory tracking and obstacle avoidance criteria are designed using Generalized Pattern S...

An epicycloid or hypocycloid mechanism is capable of drawing an exact epicycloid or hypocycloid curve. Similar mechanism designs can be found abundantly in industrial machines or educational equipments. Currently, the major type of epicycloid or hypocycloid configurations is planetary gear trains, which contain a binary link that has one fixed and one moving pivot, and a singular link adjacent ...

The development and the evolution of large, complex software systems bear several risks. Traceability links can help to master the complexity of these tasks. Currently, they are not used in a large scale, because tool support is necessary to reduce the overhead effort. At present, tools for handling traceability links cannot be effectively developed, because the syntax and the semantics of the ...

Wayne J. Book George W. Woodruff SchOOl of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 A manipulator system with a large workspace volume and high payload capa~ity has greater link flexibility than do typical industrial robots and teleoperators. N Imk flexibility is significant, position control of the manipulator's end-effector exhibits nonminimum-phase. noncollo...

T h i s s t u d y was conducted w i t h t h e f i n a n c i a l s u p p o r t o f t h e Bureau o f S t a t e S e r v i c e s ; P u b l i c H e a l t h S e r v i c e s ; Department o f H e a l t h , E d u c a t i o n , and W e l f a r e under c o n t r a c t No. Ph 1 0 8 6 6 8 9 . S e n i o r i n v e s t i g a t o r s were Fl o y d C. Mann and Ronald 0 . L i p p i t t . Dodd H. Bogart Thomas F. ...

This paper presents the link mass optimization of a serial robot manipulator based on minimum joint torque requirements that is primary concern in the industrial robot applications. The optimization of link mass globally minimizes joint torques weighted by inverse of inertia matrix. Genetic algorithm (GA) was used to optimize energy produced by robot manipulator. The influences of GA parameters...

not available at this time 3 An Inner Approximation Algorithm for the Discrete Time Varying User Equilibrium Problem Athanasios Ziliaskopoulos, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, 38334, Greece, [email protected] Traffic assignment models usually assume a convex relationship of link travel time with flow. This paper argues that this is contradict...

Defining user experience goals to guide the design of industrial systems Eija Kaasinen, Virpi Roto, Jaakko Hakulinen, Tomi Heimonen, Jussi P. P. Jokinen, Hannu Karvonen, Tuuli Keskinen, Hanna Koskinen, Yichen Lu, Pertti Saariluoma, Helena Tokkonen & Markku Turunen To cite this article: Eija Kaasinen, Virpi Roto, Jaakko Hakulinen, Tomi Heimonen, Jussi P. P. Jokinen, Hannu Karvonen, Tuuli Keskine...