The workspace of a spatial 6‐DOF electro‐ hydraulic parallel manipulator is strongly coupled, due to its multi‐closed‐loop kinematic structure and the coupling complicates motion planning and control of the parallel manipulator. This paper clearly analyses the strong dynamic coupling property in the workspace of a spatial 6‐DOF parallel manipulator, using modal decouplin...

Robotic manipulators with diverse structures find widespread use in both industrial and medical applications. Therefore, designing an appropriate controller is of utmost importance when utilizing such robots. In this research, we present a robust data-driven control method for the regulation 2-degree-of-freedom (2-DoF) robot manipulator. The nonlinear dynamic model 2-DoF arm linearized using Ko...

In this paper, a systematic approach is developed for the structural synthesis of a class of four-degrees-of-freedom (4-DoF) and 5-DoF overconstrained parallel manipulators with identical serial limbs. The theory of screws and reciprocal screws is employed for the analysis of the geometric conditions that must be met by the limbs of such parallel manipulators. Limb structures that can be used f...

The paper focuses on design and control of a new anthropomorphic robot arm enabling the torque measurement in each joint to ensure safety while performing tasks of physical interaction with human and environment. When the contact of the robot arm with an object occurs, local admittance algorithm provides active compliance of corresponding robot arm joint. Thus, the whole structure of the manipu...

ABSTRACT Formulating the suitable mathematical models and deriving the efficient algorithms for a robot kinematics mechanism are very crucial for analyzing the behavior of industrial robot manipulators. Direct kinematics that determines the Cartesian position and orientation of the end-effector for the specified values of joint parameters is generally performed using homogenous transforms. In t...

This paper reports analyses of a 5-degrees-of-freedom (5-DOF) carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) robot manipulator, which has been developed for farm applications. The manipulator was made aluminum alloy (AA) and steel materials. However, to check the effectiveness CFRP materials on static free-vibration performance AA parts were replaced with CFRP. For this purpose, effects various cross-s...

Nature’s self-organizing teams have long inspired engineering researchers. Imitating birds and fish, researchers built swarms that could keep formation via elegant decentralized control algorithms. Inspired by ants, they applied formation keeping to carrying loads as a mobile robot team. In this work, we further specialize this collaborative manipulation to manipulating teammates, thereby creat...

ABSTRACT: Kinematics and dynamics analysis of a 6-DOF parallel robot is performed. The mechanism of this parallel robot is composed of a moving platform and a static platform, the platform are linked by 6-UPS branched chains. The position and pose of the robot moving platform are totally described by 6 variables, including 3 displacement and 3 angles of a reference point on the platform. Firstl...

Purpose The goal of this work is to develop different hardware and software elements pertinent to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guided and robot-assisted intracardiac procedures, and integrate them into a modular platform suitable for further development and testing in the laboratory and at the MR suite. This prototype system, which has been partly inspired by our previous conceptual design ...

This paper represents an analytical approach for solving forward kinematics problem of a serial robot manipulator with six degrees of freedom and a specific combination of joints and links to formulate the position of the gripper by a given set of joint angles. In addition, a direct geometrical solution for the robot’s inverse kinematics problem will be defined in order to calculate the robot’s...