In this paper, an independent joint position and stiffness adaptive control for a robot arm actuated by McKibben artificial muscles is reported. In particular, muscular and dynamic parameters of the system are supposed unknown. Adaptive control performance is tested in a one degree of freedom experimental setup and compared with PID control performance. The adaptive control scheme is then appli...

In search and rescue missions, the sensors on the Absolem mobile robot used in the TRADR project can fail due to environmental conditions like smoke and dust, making further robot operation difficult and dangerous for the robot. In such cases, the robot-mounted robotic arm can be used to gain information about the environment by obtaining tactile measurements from it. We propose an algorithm to...

The purpose of the senior design project, from the course description of objectives is "To provide students a complete design experience, including the necessity to set design goals and objectives, integrate knowledge, exercise engineering judgment, plan to meet a budget and schedule, to work as a team member, and to communicate in writing." To accomplish these objectives our group, Helping Han...

This paper utilizes the idea of “robot ergonomics” in which robotic tasks are evaluated according to ergonomics criteria. Robot performance is continuously reeorded in terms of total motion for each robotic link, the load applied on each joint, and the accuracy of each motion. Evaluating robot motion can assist in the design of a robotic cell, where robot position and layout of peripheral equip...

The 4 degree of freedom robot arm a table tennis has variety trajectories. In order to improve the response and success rate shots, we used joint space trajectory planning method establish kinematic model with joints as variables, by combining it kinematics, obtained relevant parameters for each arm. Simulation tests physical were carried out obtain more accurate

The kinematics model of a robot arm (we are considering open kinematic chains) is described by a corresponding robot map having the configuration space as its domain and the workspace as codomain. In other words, the robot map assigns to every configuration of the joint parameters a unique point of the workspace of the robot arm. We briefly discuss the general introduction of the robot map wher...