The focus of this work is to design, develop and implement enhanced control and competitive robot arm thick and short cost. Design of four degree of freedom and talent of robot arm is to complete the accurate and simple tasks, such as optical materials processing, will be integrated into the mobile platform, as an assistant for the industrial labor force. Between the robot arm equipped with wea...

The aim of this research is to design and implement line-tracking mobile robot. The robot must follow a line drawn on the floor with different color, avoids hitting moving object like another moving robot or walking people and achieves color sensing. The control system reacts by controlling each of the motors to keep the tracking sensor over the middle of the line. Proximity sensors used to avo...

Due to the urgent need for high precision surgical equipment for minimally invasive spinal surgery, a novel robot-assistant system was developed for the accurate placement of pedicle screws in lumbar spinal surgeries. The structure of the robot was based on a macro-micro mechanism, which includes a serial mechanism (macro part) and a bi-planar 5R parallel mechanism (micro part). The macro part ...

Zhang, Yongheng M.S.E., Purdue University, August 2009. Modeling and Hover Control of a Double-Rotor Micro Flying Robot via Shape Change. Major Professor: Nasser Houshangi. Research in Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) has been proliferating in both academia and industry during recent years due to their potential applications, e.g. search and rescue in the aftermath of an earthquake. Among others, c...

Fluidically driven robots with biologically inspired actuators p. 97 Concept for energy-autarkic, autonomous climbing robots p. 107 Navigation of walking robots : path planning p. 115 Study on mobility of connected crawler robotby using GA p. 123 A robot that climbs walls using micro-structured polymer feet p. 131 Novel solutions to design problems of industrial climbing robots p. 139 Fast poin...

• Micro-scale surgery requires a very technically advanced skill set, including high hand-eye coordination and little-tono hand tremor. • To improve microsurgical procedures, such as vein suturing, we have developed tools for the REMS, a cooperativelycontrolled surgical robot that reduces tremor when operating. • Our goal is to design effective needle holders and validate the use of the REMS by...

as a robot could be stable statically standing on three or more legs, a six legged walking robot can be highly flexible in movements and perform different missions without dealing with serious kinematic and dynamic problems. an experimental six legged walking robot with 18 degrees of freedom is studied and built in this paper. the kinematic and gait analysis formulations are demonstrated by an e...

In this paper, micro controller is used to control the thermal states of Flexinol wires which actuating legs of the insect-like legged robot. The design emphasizes mechanical simplicity as well as power and computational autonomy for lightweight walking robot applications. The kinematics workspace characteristics has been applied on to a test rig to examine and improve the motion feasibility wi...

In this paper, we present the implementation, both in a simulator and in a real-robot version, of an efficient solution to the so-called dynamical nightwatch’s problem on the micro-robot Khepera. The problem consists mainly in exploring a previously unknown environment while detecting, registering and recognizing light sources which may dynamically be turned on and off. At the end of each round...

The paper describes the development of a micro-parallel-SCARA robot adapted in size to MEMS products. The degree of miniaturization is optimized concerning a smaller structure but high accuracy in a workspace dimensioned to chip card size. The robot supports the mostly used four degrees of freedom with a base area of less than 150 x 150 mm2. It is the result of a cooperative project between the...