Based on computational principles, the concept of an internal model for adaptive control has been divided into a forward and an inverse model. However, there is as yet little evidence that learning control by the eNS is through adaptation of one or the other. Here we examine two adaptive control architectures, one based only on the inverse model and other based on a combination of forward and i...

In the literature, conventional 3D inverse dynamic models are limited in three aspects related to inverse dynamic notation, body segment parameters and kinematic formalism. First, conventional notation yields separate computations of the forces and moments with successive coordinate system transformations. Secondly, the way conventional body segment parameters are defined is based on the assump...

We present a novel approach to plan foot placements for a humanoid robot according to kinematic tasks. In this approach, the foot placements are determined by the continuous deformation of a robot motion including a locomotion phase according to the desired tasks. We propose to represent the motion by a virtual kinematic tree composed of a kinematic model of the robot and articulated foot place...

We introduce and demonstrate a bootstrap method for construction of an inverse function for the robot kinematic mapping using only sample configuration– space/workspace data. Unsupervised learning (clustering) techniques are used on pre–image neighborhoods in order to learn to partition the configuration space into subsets over which the kinematic mapping is invertible. Supervised learning is t...

The aim of this paper is to characterize the notion of aspect in the workspace and in the joint space for parallel manipulators. In opposite to the serial manipulators, the parallel manipulators can admit not only multiple inverse kinematic solutions, but also multiple direct kinematic solutions. The notion of aspect introduced for serial manipulators in [1], and redefined for parallel manipula...

The aim of this paper is to characterize the notion of aspect in the workspace and in the joint space for parallel manipulators. In opposite to the serial manipulators, the parallel manipulators can admit not only multiple inverse kinematic solutions, but also multiple direct kinematic solutions. The notion of aspect introduced for serial manipulators in [1], and redefined for parallel manipula...

In this paper a new formulation of the inverse dynamic model of the Gough-Stewart platform is proposed. This approach is based on the methodology developped by Khalil. The platform is considered as a multi robot system moving a common load. Using a global formalism, the Jacobian and inertia matrices of each segment are computed in a factorized form. This paper provides a basis for parallel algo...

A new approach of redundancy resolution for dexterous robots intended for the operations in clustered areas is proposed. These robots are modeled by series kinematic chains with a high number of degrees of freedom and are described by underdetermined systems of kinematic equations. The inverse problem has therefore an infinite number of solutions. The basic idea of the proposed approach is to f...

This paper is focused on the kinematic control of redundant modular robots for trajectory tracing. Based on the geometric numerical inverse kinematic algorithm developed for modular robots, a new online control method is presented. In this method, the inverse kinematic solution can be optimized through constructing a weighted matrix. Following this approach, some fundamental interpolation algor...