In this paper, we propose a novel electromyographic (EMG) control interface to control motion and joints compliance of a supernumerary robotic finger. The supernumerary robotic fingers are a recently introduced class of wearable robotics that provides users additional robotic limbs in order to compensate or augment the existing abilities of natural limbs without substituting them. Since supernu...

Abstract Compared to traditional rigid robotics, soft robotics has attracted increasing attention due its advantages in compliance, safety, and low cost. As an essential part of the robotic gripper also shows superior while grasping objects with irregular shapes. Recent research been conducted improve performance by adjusting variable effective length (VEL). However, existing VEL function achie...

in this paper, the researchers have investigated a concatenated robot move (crm) sequence problem and minimal part set (mps) schedule problem with different setup times for two-machine robotic cell. they have focused on simultaneous solving of crm sequence and mps schedule problems with different loading and unloading times. they have applied a simulated annealing (sa) algorithm to provide a go...

Flapping-wing robotic insects are small, highly maneuverable flying robots inspired by biologicalinsects and useful for a wide range of tasks, including exploration, environmental monitoring, searchand rescue, and surveillance. Recently, robotic insects driven by piezoelectric actuators have achievedthe important goal of taking off with external power; however, fully autonomous operation requir...

This paper proposes a discrete-time repetitive optimal control of electrically driven robotic manipulators using an uncertainty estimator. The proposed control method can be used for performing repetitive motion, which covers many industrial applications of robotic manipulators. This kind of control law is in the class of torque-based control in which the joint torques are generated by permanen...

In this paper, we develop a new mathematical model for a cyclic multiple-part type threemachine robotic cell problem. In this robotic cell a robot is used for material handling. The objective is finding a part sequence to minimize the cycle time (i.e.; maximize the throughput) with assumption of known robot movement. The developed model is based on Petri nets and provides a new method to calcul...

We describe a probabilistic reference disambiguation mechanism developed for a spoken dialogue system mounted on an autonomous robotic agent. Our mechanism performs probabilistic comparisons between features specified in referring expressions (e.g., size and colour) and features of objects in the domain. The results of these comparisons are combined using a function weighted on the basis of the...