purpose – the aim of this study is to examine relation between employees’ participation in the organizations decisions making and their psychological empowerment in iran telecommunication company subsidiary of mazanderan province. design / methodology /approach- 250 employees from the iran telecommunication company subsidiary of mazanderan province participated in this study. a spearman's cor...

This paper proposes an anti-wind up double hyperbolic sliding mode controller (AWDH-SMC) in the presence of torque constraints for a three-legged robot. The legged robot's dynamics are nonlinear, hybrid and complex. Based on challenges mentioned, this study focuses designing (SMC) fully actuated robot to achieve fast tracking convergence. On other hand, torques generated by actuators limited. A...

Robotics can play a key role when dealing with environments that are inaccessible or hazardous for humans including ship hulls, bridge installations, oil rigs, and first reponse scenarios. Due to irregular terrain, wheeled vehicles are ineffective at traversing the necessary terrain. Legged systems are a salient solution. However, legged systems require special considerations regarding workspac...

In this paper, a new structure is provided for the dispersion compensating photonic crystal fibers in order to broaden the chromatic dispersion and increase the dispersion compensating capability in a wide wavelength range. In the structure, putting a combination of circular holes and a star structure in the inner core clad causes the dispersion coefficient profile to be broadened, and addition...

This paper proposes a new model of a one-legged hopping robot. The one-legged hopping robot is useful in realizing rapid movement such as that of a running animal. Although it has a simple leg mechanism, the dynamics are not simple and require non-linear complex analysis. This means that it is not easy to derive a controller for stable hopping in a systematic way. Therefore, a dynamics-based ap...

This two-part paper discusses the analysis and control of legged locomotion in terms of N-step capturability: the ability of a legged system to come to a stop without falling by taking N or fewer steps. We consider this ability to be crucial to legged locomotion and a useful, yet not overly restrictive criterion for stability. In this part (Part 1), we introduce a theoretical framework for asse...