Research on joint torque reduction in robot manipulators has received considerable attention in recent years. Minimizing the computational complexity of torque optimization and the ability to calculate the magnitude of the joint torque accurately will result in a safe operation without overloading the joint actuators. This paper presents a mechanical design for a three dimensional planar redund...

Space manipulator systems are designed to have lightweight structure and long arms in order to achieve reduction of fuel consumption and large reachable workspaces, respectively. Such systems are subject to link flexibilities. Moreover, space manipulator actuators are usually driven by harmonic gear mechanisms which lead to joint flexibility. These types of flexibility may cause vibrations both...

The objective of this paper is to develop an outer sheath for flexible endoscopic manipulators. This sheath can switch two states including flexible and rigid, and make a rigid curved path for inserting manipulators. The flexible mode can be curved into a required shape. The rigid mode can hold the shape of the sheath, and then keep the path for instruments. Through the managed path, the flexib...

Cooperating with heavy forging press, the heavy-duty forging manipulator is used for handling the workpiece during the free-forging process. Therefore, the size accuracy of the forgings is related to the dynamics performance of the forging manipulator. This paper aims to study the dynamic performance of DDS heavy-duty forging manipulator. The kinematics model is firstly built to predict the tra...

State estimation of a flexible industrial manipulator is presented using experimental data. The problem is formulated in a Bayesian framework where the extended Kalman filter and particle filter are used. The filters use the joint positions on the motor side of the gearboxes as well as the acceleration at the end-effector as measurements and estimates the corresponding joint angles on the arm s...

This paper presents dynamic modelling of a two-link flexible manipulator system. The kinematic model is based on standard frame transformation matrices describing both rigid rotation and modal displacement, under small deflection assumption. A two-link flexible manipulator incorporating structural damping, hub inertia and payload is considered. An explicit, complete, and accurate nonlinear dyna...

This paper presents the development of an interactive and user-friendly environment for simulation and control of flexible manipulator systems. A constrained planer single-link flexible manipulator is considered. A simulation algorithm characterising the dynamic behaviour of the manipulator is developed using finite difference methods. Several open-loop and closed-loop control strategies are de...

In this study, we focus on the intelligent behavior of an octopus and describe the development of a flexible manipulator. By using the developed manipulator, we show that grasping behaviors similar to those of an octopus can be realized by the dynamics of the body without computation in its brain. Keywords-flexible manipulator; octopus; many degrees of freedom; grasping.

This paper presents the development of an optimal PID controller for vibration control of flexible manipulator structures using particle swarm optimization (PSO) for tuning the PID parameters. The flexible manipulator system is first modeled using finite difference (FD) approach and identification using global search of PSO. The control structure comprises conventional PID controller and an int...