Abstrac-This paper describes the Dual-Use Mobile Detachable Manipulator, (DM)’, which is a mobile manipulator designed to operate in a lunar station scenario. (DM)* is designed to perform two very different kinds of tasks: exploration on the lunar terrain, and maintenance work in lunar manufacturing plants. Both tasks are essential during the early construction of a lunar station. In order to b...

Mobile manipulators have been given extensive attention in recent years since they have many applications such as materials transport and service for disabled persons. A mobile modular manipulator is normally composed of an m-wheeled mobile platform and an n-degree-of-freedom (DOF) onboard modular manipulator. This combination extends the workspace of the entire robot dramatically. Building up ...

one of the most important challenges in nonlinear, multi-input multi-output (mimo) and time variant systems (e.g., robot manipulator) is designing a controller with acceptable performance. this paper focused on design a new artificial non linear controller with on line tunable gain applied in the robot manipulator. the sliding mode fuzzy controller (smfc) was designed as 7 rules mamdani’s infer...

The present paper will impose a driving strategy for a particular nonlinear system, for example for a robot consists of a single segment, which has a flexible hinge. Transmission is more accurate, with a line size of the input provided by engine torque. Because of the robot arm speed can not be measured accurately one estimate the desired state through an Observer system. System that is intende...

in this paper, a robust integral of the sign error (rise) feedback controller is designed for a rigid-link electrically driven (rled) robot manipulator actuated by direct current dc motor in presence of parametric uncertainties and additive disturbances. rise feedback with implicitly learning capability is a continuous control method based on the lyapunov stability analysis to compensate an add...

a new type of backbone robot is presented in this paper. the core idea is to use a cross shape mechanism with the principle of functioning of the scissors linkages, known as a pantograph. although this continuum arm acts quite similar to tendon-driven robot, this manipulator does not include any tendon in its structure. this design does not suffer from the weaknesses of the continuum design suc...

When a robot manipulator is required to be light, long or to move quickly, its link tends to flex. When the link flexes, its end position is difficult to control. In fact, the flexibility brings about undesirable attributes such as non-minimum phase, tip vibration and complicated dynamics. As a result, in contrast to a rigid-link robot, control of the flexible-link robot is more challenging and...

The estimation of the performance characteristics of robot manipulators is crucial in robot application and design. Furthermore, studying the manipulability index for every point within the workspace of any serial manipulator is considered an important problem. Such studies are required for designing trajectories to avoid singular configurations. In this paper, a new method for measuring the ma...

Cooperating with heavy forging press, the heavy-duty forging manipulator is used for handling the workpiece during the free-forging process. Therefore, the size accuracy of the forgings is related to the dynamics performance of the forging manipulator. This paper aims to study the dynamic performance of DDS heavy-duty forging manipulator. The kinematics model is firstly built to predict the tra...

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...