ABSTRACT Formulating the suitable mathematical models and deriving the efficient algorithms for a robot kinematics mechanism are very crucial for analyzing the behavior of industrial robot manipulators. Direct kinematics that determines the Cartesian position and orientation of the end-effector for the specified values of joint parameters is generally performed using homogenous transforms. In t...

In robot-assisted teleoperated laparoscopic surgeries, the patient side manipulators are controlled via the master manipulators, operated by the surgeon. The current generation of robots approved for laparoscopic surgery lack haptic feedback. In theory, haptic feedback could enhance the surgical procedures by providing a palpable sense of the environment as a function of surgeon’s hands movemen...

We have developed a planner for redundant manipulators that is fast, eeective and versatile, based on the idea of treating each link of a rigid-linked robot as if it were slightly exible and under the innuenceof a potentialeld. We justify the method by exploringsome simple examples, and brieey describe the extensions to the basic method that allow it to plan paths for manipulators with revolute...

This survey provides the basis for developing research in the area of mobile manipulator performance measurement, an area that has relatively few research articles when compared to other mobile manipulator research areas. The survey provides a literature review of mobile manipulator research with examples of experimental applications. The survey also provides an extensive list of planning and c...

A robot arm/manipulator finds its applications in variety of areas to takeaway the processes which are repetitive, highly multifaceted and perilous, destructive or of high-precision in its nature. Robot manipulators are intended to use in object sorting applications because of its high accuracy and precision operation. Robot manipulator shows many advantages when it is networked and automated w...

This paper deals with control of parallel manipulators for very high acceleration tasks including two case studies. The first one is the case of non-redundant parallel manipulators, where we are interested in control of PAR2 robot for 2D pick-andplace trajectories following. The proposed control scheme in this case is a nonlinear dual mode adaptive controller complied with a high gain state obs...

Finding the full load motion for a point-to-point task can maximize the productivity and economic usage of the mobile manipulators. The presented paper proposes a technique to determine the maximum allowable dynamic payload for flexible mobile manipulators along with the obtained optimal trajectories. Non-linear modeling of the mobile robotic manipulators by considering both link and joint flex...

In this paper, conventional global and local indices – structural length index, manipulability measure, condition number and Global Conditioning Index (GCI) – have been examined for the workspace optimization of the sixteen fundamental robot manipulators classified by B. Huang and V. Milenkovic [Kinematics of major robot linkages, Robotics International of SME 2 (1983) 16–31]. To find the optim...

In this paper, a parameters self-learning PID controller algorithm based on modified BP neural network is proposed to eliminate the influence of time delay on the stability and maneuverability of tele-operation manipulators. This control algorithm adjusts the three parameters of PID controller on line through BP neural network. Conjugate gradient method is used for real-time adjustment of weigh...

A new concept for controlling of underactuated robot manipulators is presented by using switching computed torque method. One fundamental feature of the present approach is to use the partly stable controllers (PSCs) in order to fulfill the ultimate control objective. Dynamic model of an underactuated robot system is directly analyzed to synthesize partly stable, computed torque controllers wit...