Cable-based robots build upon mechanisms that not only use rigid links in their structures but also utilize unilateral force elements such as cables to deliver the desired motion. Cables may be either connected to active winches to provide a variable length and hence to actuate the mechanism or may be only to provide a kinematic constraint to eliminate an undesired motion of the endeffector. Ma...

This paper describes and discusses the history and state of the art of continuous backbone robot manipulators. Also known as continuum manipulators, these robots, which resemble biological trunks and tentacles, offer capabilities beyond the scope of traditional rigid link manipulators. They are able to adapt their shape to navigate through complex environments and grasp a wide variety of payloa...

In this paper, dynamics, postural stability and control of suspended wheeled mobile manipulators for cooperative heavy object manipulation are elaborated considering the effect of grasping posture. The presented model considers a system equipped with multiple manipulators with flexible suspension, which also contains an accurate nonlinear behavior of the tires. Moreover, it includes the vibrato...

Parameter identification techniques are particularly attractive to determine the inertial parameters of robot manipulators and manipulated payloads. These parameters are particularly needed in implementation of a model-based controller for robot manipulators. In this paper, the inertial parameters of a manipulated rigid-body object have been estimated. The Newton-Euler equations will be employe...

In this paper, we propose an energy-based nonlinear control for two-link flexible manipulators. Since the two-link flexible manipulator is an underactuated system which provides a challenge to control engineers and researchers. In order to control this kind of system more effectively, many new control theories and methods are explored to design controllers for the flexible manipulators. Among t...

I n this paper, we discuss the force control of flexible manipulators. Since the force control of flexible manipulators with planar one or two links using the distributed-parameter modeling has been the subject of a considerable number of publications until now, so real t ime computations of the force control schemes are possible. But, application of those control schemes to multi-link spatial ...

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