We present a composite material with embedded sensing and actuation that can perform permanent shape changes by temporarily varying its stiffness and applying an external moment. Varying stiffness is a complementary approach to actuator-chain based approaches that can be accomplished using a large variety of means ranging from heat, electric field or vacuum. A polycaprolactone (PCL) bar provide...

This paper presents the fomulation of the inverse kinematics and dvnamics of the1 3-RRS parallel platform with three degrees of freedom. For inverse kinematics, The position analysis is f irs f ly performed. Then the differential motion constraint vquations of the movable platform are established, based on which the velocity and acceleration formulae of leg actuators are derived. In inverse dyn...

Despite the huge progress made in interactive physics-based mesh deformation, manipulating a geometrically complex mesh or posing a detailed character is still a tedious and time-consuming task. Example-driven methods significantly simplify the modeling process by incorporating structural or anatomical knowledge learned from example poses. However, these approaches yield counter-intuitive, non-...

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The present paper studies Plücker coordinates for line elements in Euclidean three-space. The well known relation between line geometry and kinematics is generalized to equiform motions and the geometry of line elements. We consider bundles and linear complexes of line elements and survey their properties. MSC 2000: 51M30, 53A17

After writing programs for a production robot, an operator must manually teach hundreds or thousands of poses. Teaching poses is extremely time consuming and, unfortunately, periodic reteaching is necessary. The need to reteach is commonly due to: wear, repair, slight movements of workpieces, or replacement of the robot and its tools. Our experience has shown that conventional methods of adjust...

Abstract: This paper is aimed in presenting a study on the kinematic modeling of the Tricept based five-axis vertical machine tool. Since the machine comprises 3-DOF parallel structure and 2-DOF serial wrist kinematic modeling also comprises serial and parallel part. As solution of direct and inverse kinematics of 2-DOF serial wrist is well known the study in this paper will focus on the parall...