Since a parallel structure is a closed kinematics chain, all legs are connected from the origin of the tool point by a parallel connection. This connection allows a higher precision and a higher velocity. Parallel kinematic manipulators have better performance compared to serial kinematic manipulators in terms of a high degree of accuracy, high speeds or accelerations and high stiffness. Theref...

In recent years, biodiesel has been considered as a good alternative of diesel fuels. Density and viscosity are two important properties of these fuels. In this study, density and kinematic viscosity of biodiesel-diesel blends were estimated by using artificial neural network (ANN). A three-layer feed forward neural network with Levenberg-Marquard (LM) algorithm was used for learning empirical ...

Biometric authentication is an effective method for automatically recognizing a person’s identity. In our previous paper, we have considered palm print for human authentication. Recently, it has been found that the Finger Knuckle Print (FKP), which refers to the inherent skin patterns of the outer surface around the phalangeal joint of one’s finger, has high capability to discriminate different...

This paper proposed the use of multi-instance feature level fusion as a means to improve the performance of Finger Knuckle Print (FKP) verification. A log-Gabor filter has been used to extract the image local orientation information, and represent the FKP features. Experiments are performed using the FKP database, which consists of 7,920 images. Results indicate that the multi-instance verifica...

A new learning method, the fuzzy kernel perceptron (FKP), in which the fuzzy perceptron (FP) and the Mercer kernels are incorporated, is proposed in this paper. The proposed method first maps the input data into a high-dimensional feature space using some implicit mapping functions. Then, the FP is adopted to find a linear separating hyperplane in the high-dimensional feature space. Compared wi...

In recent years, biodiesel has been considered as a good alternative of diesel fuels. Density and viscosity are two important properties of these fuels. In this study, density and kinematic viscosity of biodiesel-diesel blends were estimated by using artificial neural network (ANN). A three-layer feed forward neural network with Levenberg-Marquard (LM) algorithm was used for learning empirical ...

We consider a Stewart platform and show that it forward kinematics has at most 12 solutions. A first geometrical demonstration is provided which uses the concept of circularity and in a second proof we show that this problem is equivalent to find a system of two planar parallel manipulators with each 6 solutions to the forward kinematic problem. A geometrical construction is provided to constru...

In this paper, different approaches to solve the forward kinematics of a three DOF actuator redundant hydraulic parallel manipulator are presented. On the contrary to series manipulators, the forward kinematic map of parallel manipulators involves highly coupled nonlinear equations, which are almost impossible to solve analytically. The proposed methods are using neural networks identification ...

In this paper, different approaches are presented to solve the forward kinematics of a three DOF actuator redundant hydraulic parallel manipulator. It is known, that on the contrary to series manipulators, the forward kinematic map of parallel manipulators involves highly coupled nonlinear equations, which are almost impossible to solve analytically. The proposed methods are using mainly numeri...