This paper studied the maneuverability of the pure electric propulsion all-direction vector thrusting ship called “Century myth”, which also is the first one of its kind in inland rivers in China. Abilities such as turning, stop, changing of course and course keeping are studied. The main research method is by test and comparison, the result shows that the maneuverability of this kind of ship i...

Despite recent advances in the study of animal flight, the biomechanical determinants of maneuverability are poorly understood. It is thought that maneuverability may be influenced by intrinsic body mass and wing morphology, and by physiological muscle capacity, but this hypothesis has not yet been evaluated because it requires tracking a large number of free flight maneuvers from known individ...

Biomimetic swimming devices that employ compliant mechanisms have shown promise as an alternative to current biomimetic design approaches that involve the use of complex mechanisms. The additional stealth, ruggedness, and efficiency of this approach means that such devices could perform important tasks such as reconnaissance and underwater mapping. Many of these applications also require high l...

A multicriterion design problem for optimal maneuverability and fault tolerance of flexible spacecraft is considered. The maneuverability index reflects the time required to perform rest-to-rest attitude maneuvers for a given set of angles, with the postmaneuver spillover within a specified bound. The performance degradation is defined to reflect the maximum possible attitude error after maneuv...

This project report presents methods for determining maneuverability constraints for robotic systems. These maneuverability constraints are limits on the acceleration and velocity of the system specified in a global coordinate frame (e.g., a Cartesian reference frame where trajectory planning is typically done) based on torque/force and operating limits in a different reference frame (e.g., the...

Presently, for consolidation of rocky slopes, heavy duty industrial equipment is employed for drilling up to 20 m. depth holes. However, it is a very complex task and many working sites are of very difficult reach. ROBOCLIMBER is a quadruped walking and climbing robot whose development is funded by the EC under a Growth/Craft RTD project, where the objective is to develop a tele-operated servic...

The flight envelope can be viewed as a set within the state space of an aircraft. For various safety considerations an aircraft is required to remain within its prescribed flight envelope. The safe set is the largest controlled invariant set within the flight envelope. Thus, if an aircraft is to remain within its envelope it must stay within the safe set. When an aircraft is impaired, e.g., a j...