This paper describes preliminary studies on a prototype robot for the inspection/maintenance of electrical power lines. Faulty insulators or abnormal objects can be detected before causing a failure in the distribution of electrical energy. The robot uses a statically stable variation of the brachistochrone motion to move along the power lines and overcome the standard obstacles present in the ...

Parallel robots have natural advantages for many applications thanks to their high rigidity, accuracy, low inertia of the moving parts and lightness, etc. The goal this study has performed motion control, kinematical, workspace analyses a Delta-type parallel robot with 3 degrees freedom (3-DOF). actual parameter values were used in control analyses. Forward inverse kinematics analysis, as well ...

The purpose of this paper is to encourage those instructors who teach Robotics from a Computer Science perspective to include a taste of homogeneous transforms and robot kinematics in their classes. I include some supplemental resources that can help in this endeavor, and some ideas for how to incorporate these topics into mobile robot projects.

The compliant framed modular mobile robot is a new type of wheeled mobile robot for which the motion control problems of posture stabilization, path following, and trajectory tracking are studied. This robot has the advantages of a simple modular design that provides full suspension and steering capability without any additional components. Due to the flexible nature of the robot, the kinematic...

Fin Kinematics Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado and coworkers propose a novel approach to design fabricate soft composite structures for robots that allows precise tailoring of the robot's mechanical properties in article 2100361. The is implemented stingray-like robot enable bespoke fin kinematics which turn superior swimming performance when compared with traditional, cast prototypes.