We show that populations of visually responsive cells in the anterior part of the superior temporal sulcus (STSa) of the macaque monkey code for the sight of both specific articulated body actions and the consequent articulated static body postures. We define articulated actions as actions where one body part (e.g. a limb or head) moves with respect to the remainder of the body which remains st...

Vertical dynamics modeling and simulation of a six-wheel unmanned military vehicle (MULE) studied in this paper. The Common Mobility Platform (CMP) chassis provided mobility, built around an advanced propulsion and articulated suspension system gave the vehicle ability to negotiate complex terrain, obstacles, and gaps that a dismounted squad would encounter. Aiming at modeling of vehicle vertic...

The major control problems for robot debuning mainly arise from uncertainty of the robot manipulators and complex deburring process. In this paper, a new design of hybrid force/position control of robot manipulators via adaptive fuzzy approach is proposed to solve these problems. The control architecture consists of an outer-loop command generator which can automatically determine the desired r...

A novel method is presented for efficiently testing the stability of an object under contact that accommodates empirically determined sets of admissible forces at contact points. These admissible force volumes may exhibit a wide variety of geometries, including anisotropy, adhesion, and even nonconvexity. The method discretizes the contact region into patches, performs a convex decomposition of...

In this paper, the forcefree control with independent compensation is described. The forcefree control with independent compensation, in which inertia, friction and gravity torque are compensated independently, can realize flexible motion of robot arms. The forcefree control with independent compensation is compared with other force control methods such as compliance control. Various applicatio...

Attempts to install a rotating tool at the end of a robot arm poly-articulated date back twenty years, but these robots were not designed for that. Indeed, two essential features are necessary for machining: high rigidity and precision in a given workspace. The experimental results presented are the dynamic identification of a poly-articulated robot equipped with an integrated spindle. This stu...