In this paper, adaptive control of free-floating space manipulators is considered. The dynamics based on the momentum conservation law for the free-floating space manipulator has non-linear parameterization properties. Therefore, the adaptive control based on a linear parameterization model cannot be used in this dynamics. In this paper, the dynamics of the free-floating space manipulator syste...

The significant advantages of parallel robots over serial manipulators are now well known. However, they still pose a serious challenge when considering their kinematics. This paper covers the state-of-the-art on modeling issues and certified solving of kinematics problems. Parallel manipulator architectures can be divided into two categories: planar and spatial. Firstly, the typical planar par...

This paper is focused on the study of singularity of planar parallel manipulators taking into account the force transmission, i.e. study of singularity of planar manipulator by introducing the force transmission factor. Thus the singularity zones in the workspace of the manipulator are defined not only by kinematic criterions from the theoretical perfect model of the manipulator but also by the...

In this paper piezo actuated micromanipulators are considered with serial-parallel structure including elastic joints. Such structure allows a preliminary tension of the mechanical system in order to eliminate backlashes and to improve the performance of the piezo-actuators. A kinematics model of a serial-parallel structure for local micro manipulators is build here. A pseudo rigid body approac...

This paper introduces a novel, bioinspired manipulator for minimally invasive surgery (MIS). The manipulator is entirely composed of soft materials, and it has been designed to provide similar motion capabilities as the octopus's arm in order to reach the surgical target while exploiting its whole length to actively interact with the biological structures. The manipulator is composed of two ide...

The paper deals with the PAM manipulator modeling and identification based on autoregressive recurrent neural networks. For the first time, the most powerful types of neural-network-based nonlinear autoregressive models, namely, NNARMAX, NNOE and NNARX models, will be applied comparatively to the PAM manipulator identification. Furthermore, the evaluation of different nonlinear neural network a...

The workspace of a spatial 6‐DOF electro‐ hydraulic parallel manipulator is strongly coupled, due to its multi‐closed‐loop kinematic structure and the coupling complicates motion planning and control of the parallel manipulator. This paper clearly analyses the strong dynamic coupling property in the workspace of a spatial 6‐DOF parallel manipulator, using modal decouplin...

In this paper, a new methodology for motion control of mobile manipulator is presented. Motion control of mobile manipulator addresses the problem of trajectory tracking in autonomous mode witch allowing the endeffector and the plat-form to follow simultaneously desired trajectories without violating the non-holonomic constraints. Moving mobile manipulator systems presents many problems that ar...

This paper proposes a vision‐based autonomous move‐to‐grasp approach for a compact mobile manipulator under some low and small environments. The visual information of specified object with a radial symbol and an overhead colour block is extracted from two CMOS cameras in an embedded way. Furthermore, the mobile platform and the postures of the manipulator are adjusted continu...

In the paper we present new control algorithms for a special class of mobile manipulators, namely for nonholonomic mobile manipulators. A mobile manipulator is defined as a robotic system composed of a mobile platform and a manipulator mounted on the platform equipped with non-deformable wheels. Such a combined system is able to perform manipulation tasks in a much larger workspace than a fixed...