Soft robot arms possess unique capabilities when it comes to adaptability, flexibility, and dexterity. In addition, soft systems that are pneumatically actuated can claim high power-to-weight ratio. One of the main drawbacks of pneumatically actuated soft arms is that their stiffness cannot be varied independently from their end-effector position in space. The novel robot arm physical design pr...

ontrol of cooperating multiple robots has been studied extensively in the past decade [ 11-[ 121. The special feature of multi-arm systems compared to single-arm systems is that closed kinematic loops exist which present a challenge for both motion control C and internal force control. On the other hand, single-arm constrained robots also require motion control and constraint force control. How...

The rapid evolution of standard hardware such as workstations and PCs made it possible to develop workstation or PC based robot controls. RoboSiM, a robot simulation and monitoring system, is based on such a robot control. RoboSiM runs on the real robot controller which may be either a SPARC workstation or a PC. Traditional systems simulate both, the robot arm and the robot control. The basic i...

PURPOSE We describe multiple uses of the fourth robotic arm and TilePro on the da Vinci S surgical system to maximize console surgeon independence from the assistant during robot-assisted renal surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS We prospectively evaluated the use of the fourth robotic arm and TilePro on the da Vinci S during robot-assisted radical nephrectomy (RRN) and robot-assisted partial neph...

The use of coordinated multi-arm robotic systems allows to preform manipulations of heavy or bulky objects that would otherwise be infeasible for a single-arm robot. This paper concisely introduces our work on coordinated multi-arm control [Salehian et al., 2016a], where we proposed a virtual object based dynamical systems (DS) control law to generate autonomous and synchronized motions for a m...

In the future of automated production processes, manipulator must be more efficient to complete certain tasks. Compared single-arm robots, dual-arm robots have a larger workspace and stronger load capacity. Coordinated motion planning multi-arm is problem that solved in process robot development. This paper proposes an obstacle avoidance path method for based on goal probability bias cost funct...

The constraints of a low-cost consumer product pose a major challenge for designing a localization system. In previous work, we introduced Vector Field SLAM [5], a system for simultaneously estimating robot pose and a vector field induced by stationary signal sources present in the environment. In this paper we show how this method can be realized on a low-cost embedded processing unit by apply...