The theory, computer simulations, and experimental measurements are presented for electrically small two-element supergain arrays with near optimal endfire gains of 7 dB. We show how the difficulties of narrow tolerances, large mismatches, low radiation efficiencies, and reduced scattering of electrically small parasitic elements are overcome by using electrically small resonant antennas as the...

in this paper, according to high load capacity and rather large workspace characteristics of cable driven robots (cdrs), maximum dynamic load carrying capacity (dlcc) between two given end points in the workspace along with optimal trajectory is obtained. in order to find dlcc of cdrs, joint actuator torque and workspace of the robot constraints concerning to non-negative tension in cables are ...

A novel approach to neural network based tracking-control of robot manipulator including actuator dynamics is proposed by using of backstepping method. A simple two-step backstepping is considered for an nlink robotic system, and a feedforward neural controller is designed at second step where structured and unstructured uncertainties in robot dynamics and actuator model are approximated by thi...

This paper addresses a neural-network-based chattering free sliding mode control (SMC) for robot manipulators including structured and unstructured uncertainties in both manipulator and actuator dynamics by incorporating a PID outer loop. The main idea is that the robustness property of SMC and good response characteristics of PID are combined to achieve more acceptable performance. Uncertainti...

In a recent work of [16], a hybrid adaptive controller for rigid-link electrically-driven robot manipulators was proposed. Semiglobal asymptotic stability of the controller was established in the Lyapunov sense. However, there are two limitations in it. One is that the controller requires the joint velocity measurements, that with the required accuracy can be difficult to realize in practical a...

A learning control scheme for a class of robot manipulatorswhose endpoint is moving under geometrical constraints on a surfaceis proposed. In this scheme, the input torque command is composed oftwo different signals updated separately at every trial by different ways.One is updated by the angular velocity error vector which is projectedto the tangent plane of the constraint ...

In this note, we show that the impedance control strategy proposed in the paper is not feasible from practical implementation point of view. Next, a robust impedance controller is proposed for electrically driven robots using Fourier series (FS). The fact that robots' actuators have limited voltage is also considered in controller design procedure. In comparison with other impedance controllers...