Increasing demand on mass production of high precision parts, has pushed the precision manufacturing industry to develop relatively low cost, reliable precision finishing processes to meet market requirements. A gap within the provision of low cost polishing processes has been identified; namely parts with a radius of curvature less than 10mm will be increasingly present in new mass produced pr...

In this paper, we report on the design of a model-based controller that can achieve dynamical self-righting of a hexapod robot. Extending on our earlier work in this domain, we introduce a tractable multi-point contact model with Coulomb friction. We contrast the singularities inherent to the new model with other available methods and show that for our specific application, it yields dynamics w...

In the article examines structure of technological systems with a parallel kinematic structure. The path location optimization problem consists three sets, namely set design variables, objective functions, and constraints. Accordingly, task is aimed at identifying such as hexapod, tripod, triglide, others, that characterize surface fabrication in order to minimize or maximize functions subject ...

Insects have various gaits with specific characteristics and can change their gaits smoothly in accordance with their speed. These gaits emerge from the embodied sensorimotor interactions that occur between the insect's neural control and body dynamic systems through sensory feedback. Sensory feedback plays a critical role in coordinated movements such as locomotion, particularly in stick insec...

Scientific application of large space antennas and telescopes is fostering the study of ultralightweight and inflatable structures. These socalled “gossamer” structures are tightly packaged for launch and subsequent deployment. Of particular interest is a hexapod configuration often found in vehicle ride simulators, ground-based telescopes, and antennas. One such configuration was modeled and t...

1 This paper describes DANIELA, a Neuro-Fuzzy system for control applications. The system is based on a custom neural device that can implement either Multi-Layer Perceptrons, Radial Basis Functions or Fuzzy paradigms. The system implements intelligent control algorithms mixing neuro-fuzzy algorithms with nite state automata and is used to control a walking hexapod.