The design of an industrial robot often involves a multi-body mechanical system driven by a microprocessor based sophisticated control system. With the advent of various dynamic simulation packages (ExADAMS, RecurDyn, Autodesk Inventor etc.), one can easily perform dynamic simulation of complex mechanical systems assuming an oversimplified control scheme. Similarly, with various control system ...

A new robot toolbox for dynamics simulation based on MATLAB Graphical User Interface (GUI) is developed for educational purposes. It is built on the previous version named as ROBOLAB performing only the kinematics analysis of robot manipulators. The toolbox presented in this paper provides interactive real-time simulation and visualization of the industrial robot manipulator’s dynamics based on...

— The aim of this research is to develop a robust navigation system for mobile robot in a road roundabout setting based on a simulated data via a virtual laser range finder (LRF) and vision system. A novel algorithm that combines with the modeled LRF and vision system was proposed to detect the open space area of a road roundabout. To assess the capability of mobile robot in the tracking of the...

A young designer of the wheeled mobile robot has to answer a wide range of questions before making a final decision to build a prototype. The basic problem is to define an appropriate drive and type of construction. At this stage, the young designers usually duplicate ready-made solutions, however, in general uses an inappropriate drive. The robot behaves correctly only after several failed des...

Stabilization of a single wheel mobile robot attracted researcher attentions in robotic area. However, the budget requirements for building experimental setups capable in investigating isolated parameters and implementing others encouraged the development of new simulation methods and techniques that beat such limitations. In this work we have developed a simulation platform for testing differe...

We study the locomotor mechanics of a small, lightweight robot (DynaRoACH, 10 cm, 25 g) which can move on a granular substrate of 3 mm diameter glass particles at speeds up to 5 body length/s, approaching the performance of certain desert-dwelling animals. To reveal how the robot achieves this performance, we used high-speed imaging to capture its kinematics, and developed a numerical multi-bod...