Autonomous robot calibration is defined as the process of determining a robot’s model by using only its internal sensors. It is shown that autonomous calibration of a manipulator and stereo camera system is possible. The proposed autonomous calibration algorithm may obtain the manipulator kinematic parameters, external kinematic camera parameters, and internal camera parameters. To do this, onl...

Recently, with the environmental crisis, Green supply chain management (or GSCM), and in particular closed loop supply chain model, has received considerable attention by researchers. Closed loop supply chain model aims at reduction of waste and generating profit for enterprises through integrating forward and reverse logistics. Unfortunately, there is limited research on general models for clo...

A method to simulate the interactions between objects of a mechanism is described. The method can simulate planar kinematic chains of any length. The same method is used with modifications to generate the geometry of one object of a kinematic pair given the required functional relationship and the geometry of the other object. The planar contour shape of each object of a kinematic pair is repre...

This work aims at presenting, in a comprehensive manner, several approaches to model and simulate closed loop topologies using the classical Lagrangian formulation. One of great advantages approach is its simplicity easiness obtaining equations motion. However, critical aspect arises when mechanical systems include topologies, since process deriving motion becomes complex task. The key point pr...

We investigate the dynamics of a closed-loop make-to-stock supply chain consisting remanufacturer and manufacturer with first-order vector auto-regressive demand return process. Remanufactured products, considered as-good-as-new, partially satisfy market demand; newly manufactured products fill remainder. The cooperate to minimize sum 1) capacity costs at remanufacturing manufacturing processes...

This paper describes a framework and algorithms for robust kinematic design of mechanical assemblies. The framework, developed over a period of ten years, is based on the configuration space method and supports automatic modeling, nominal and toleranced analysis, and part tolerance envelope computation of open and closed loop planar mechanisms with multiple, changing contacts. It also supports ...