This paper outlines the current state of the virtual prototyping program using ADAMS under development at GreyPilgrim Incorporated. This program is being developed in order to provide analysis in the mechanical design of cable driven hyperredundant flexible manipulators, referred to as EMMAs (Easily Manipulated Mechanical Arms). A diagram of a typical EMMA manipulator can be seen in Figure 1 be...

This paper addresses the adaptive tracking control of flexible joint manipulators based on a singular perturbation approach. Comparisons between adaptive and nonadaptive tracking controllers are given. Experimental results with the DLR’s light weight robot are given for the 2 DOF case.

in this paper, finding dynamic load carrying capacity (dlcc) of flexible link manipulators in point to-point motion was formulated as an optimal control problem. the finite element method was employed for modelling and deriving the dynamic equations of the system. the study employed indirect solution of optimal control for system motion planning. due to offline nature of the method, many diffic...

The control of lightweight flexible manipulators moving along predefined paths is the focus of this work. The flexible manipulator dynamics is derived on the basis of a Lagrangian-assumed modes method. The full order flexible dynamic system does not allow the determination of a tracking control as for rigid ma~ipulators, since there are not as many control inputs as output variables. Thi~ drawb...

This paper presents a methodology to analyze dynamics of flexible space robot using bond graph. In case of space robots the position and orientation of the satellite main body may change when the manipulator moves. Motion of the space robots also induces vibrating motions in structurally flexible manipulators. Researchers working on terrestrial flexible robot arms principally have focused on is...