We present hardware results of a planar, translational cabledirect-driven robot (CDDR). The motivation behind this work was to present kinematics and statics modeling of the CDDR along with the method to maintain positive cable tension and implement them on CDDR hardware for experimental verification. Only translational CDDR is considered in this article; we attempt to keep zero orientation by ...

The following problem appears in robotics. A number of small, circular robots live in a common planar workspace. Each is attached by a exible cable of nite length to a point on the boundary of this workspace. Each robot has a target point in the workspace it must reach. When a robot has reached its target, its cable will have been dragged out into the workspace and possibly pushed and bent by o...

In this study, a robust neuro-adaptive controller for cable-driven parallel robots is proposed. The robust neuroadaptive control system is comprised of a computation controller and a robust controller. The computation controller containing a neural-network-estimator with radial basis function activator is the principal controller and the robust controller is designed to achieve tracking perform...

Robots are controlled with a discrete-time controller that includes a highlevel loop for motion control and a faster internal loop that controls the actuators. We intend to simulate the behavior of the whole chain for a cable-driven parallel robot (CDPR) with linear elastic cables and we will show that such a simulation cannot be performed using classical simulation tools. We exhibit a simulati...