Modular robot manipulators have many advantages over conventional integrated robot manipulators, including flexibility, re-configurability, versatility, and low-cost with massive production. However, the lack of control precision has been a long standing drawback in MRM applications until now. In this paper, a VDC-based control and communication system using embedded FPGA (field programmable ga...

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and, recently, System on Chip (SoC) devices have been applied in a wide area of applications due to their flexibility for real-time implementations, increasing the processing capability hardware as well speed information real-time. The most important based FPGA/SoC are focused signal/image processing, Internet Things (IoT) technology, artificial intelligen...

This article presents the development and control of a novel hybrid controlled vertical climbing robot based on Pneumatic Muscle Actuators (PMAs). PMAs are highly non– linear pneumatic actuators where their elongation is proportional to the internal pressure. The vertical sliding of the robot is based on four PMAs and through the combined and sequential contraction–extension of the pneumatic mu...

Programmable matter is a material that produces distinctive shapes or patterns according to a given command. Often they are composed of interconnected modular elements that are able to make or break the connections or alter relative orientation. We present programmable matter based on robotic origami that demonstrates the capability to fold into 3D shapes starting from a nominally 2D sheet. Thi...

We present a distributed framework for predicting whether planned reconfiguration step of modular robot will mechanically overload the structure, causing it to break or lose stability under its own weight. The algorithm is executed by itself and based on iterative solution mechanical equilibrium equations derived from simplified model robot. treats inter-modular connections as beams assumes no-...

This paper proposes a method in which an object tracking robot system is implemented on field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The OV7670 camera provides real-time pictures to the system. To improve picture quality, images are put via median filter phase. item distinguished from backdrop based color (red), after it subjected mathematical morphological approach of filtering eliminate noise. sen...

This research was to propose the DC linear actuators and a stepper motor as mechanical drive systems such brake pedal, clutch forward-reverse gearshift, gear position selection, tail-lifting system lift chemical tank, speed selection of power take-off (PTO). The were used instead muscles, arms, legs human being. control steering direction driverless tractor robot. based on programmable logic co...

In this paper, synchronous multi-channel pulse width modulation (PWM) generator for driving servo motors of humanoid robot was proposed. an application, the requires smooth and beautiful movement, therefore PWM signal each motor must be synchronized. Since microcontroller (slave) has no enough channels to generate PWMs 32 motors, field programmable gate array (FPGA) used as slave robot. The FPG...