The CYCLOPS is a cable-driven parallel mechanism used for minimally invasive applications, with the ability to be customised to different surgical needs; allowing it to be made procedureand patient-specific. For adequate optimisation, however, appropriate data on clinical constraints and task-space is required. Whereas the former can be provided through preoperative planning and imaging, the la...

In this paper, we describe an integrated strategy for planning, perception, state-estimation and action in complex mobile manipulation domains. The strategy is based on planning in the belief space of probability distribution over states. Our planning approach is based on hierarchical goal regression (pre-image back-chaining). We develop a vocabulary of fluents that describe sets of belief stat...

Validating models of airspace operations is a particular challenge. These models are often aimed at finding and exploring safety violations, and aim to be accurate representations of real-world behavior. However, the rules governing the behavior are quite complex: nonlinear physics, operational modes, human behavior, and stochastic environmental concerns all determine the responses of the syste...

Behaviors of multi-robot system based on task-oriented architecture are intuitional according to the flow of task processing that is obvious to plan and monitor. This paper tables a novel task-oriented architecture for space robot application, which consists of task description, task completion analysis, task compromise. For this architecture, author designed a knowledge interchange mechanism b...

In this paper, we investigate the task-space consensus problem for multiple robotic systems with both the uncertain kinematics and dynamics in the case of existence of constant communication delays. We propose an observer-based adaptive controller to achieve the manipulable consensus without relying on the measurement of task-space velocities, and also formalize the concept of manipulability to...

space 1 The space of twist Joint space The space of wrench (6) jT T T J ~ ( = J KI Ii) I ' * 1 v torque space 1 Figure 2.6: Transformation from Task Domain to Joint Domain where each column of J is the image in abstract space of the corresponding column of the Jacobian J . Thus. the base of the joint variable space is: and the base of the joint torque space is: Because J is a matrix defined in ...

Most theorizing on the origin of the costs that are associated with task shifts focuses on local transitions between individual trials. In the present article we argue that this emphasis has resulted in a neglect of more global representational structures, which also determinate shift costs. To substantiate this claim, we employed a set of four tasks that results from a factorial combination of...

Modern robotics research has developed a mature family of planners for solving robot motion planning problems, but task space problems (where we want to reason about objects) remain difficult. Other approaches for solving what are often referred to as combined task and motion planning problems rely on bringing logical problem structure into the design of the high level planner. While programmin...

Movement generation has been hypothesized to rely on a modular organization of muscle activity. Crucial to this hypothesis is the ability to perform reliably a variety of motor tasks by recruiting a limited set of modules and combining them in a task-dependent manner. Thus far, existing algorithms that extract putative modules of muscle activations, such as Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NM...

In this paper, adaptive neural network control of robot manipulators in the task space is considered. The controller is developed based on a neural network modeling technique which neither requires the evaluation of inverse dynamical model nor the time-consuming training process. It is shown that, if Gaussian radial basis function networks are used, uniformly stable adaptation is assured, and a...