The research of humanoid robot and intelligent prosthesis is integrated and a new-style humanoid robot named biped robot with heterogeneous legs (BRHL) is proposed to provide an ideal test-bed for intelligent bionic leg (IBL). The research background and concept of BRHL are introduced. The existed problems of common humanoid robot leg are analysed in detail. Based on bionics, the joint structur...

The modeling of pneumatic actuators, also known as artificial muscles, has been the main focus in several research papers in the past [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. At the Center for Intelligent Systems (CIS) at Vanderbilt University, we have been using pneumatic actuators for our Intelligent Soft Arm Control (ISAC, Figure 1). For the position control of a joint, driven by two artificial muscles, a physical ...

The Internet and the availability of vast computational resources, ever-growing data and storage capacity have the potential to de ne a new paradigm for robotics and automation. An intelligent system connected to the Internet can expand its onboard local data, computation and sensors with huge data repositories from similar and very di erent domains, massive parallel computation from server far...

Mobile robot is an autonomous agent capable of navigating intelligently anywhere using sensor-actuator control techniques. The applications of the autonomous mobile robot in many fields such as industry, space, defence and transportation, and other social sectors are growing day by day. The mobile robot performs many tasks such as rescue operation, patrolling, disaster relief, planetary explora...

An innovative design for intelligent Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) system is proposed and verified by experiments in this report. On-line measurement and real-time feedback are integrated to eliminate the shortcomings of traditional approaches, e.g., the batch-to-batch discrepancy of required polishing time, over consumption of chemical slurry, and non-uniformity across the wafer. The maj...

The integration of mechanical systems and microeteetronics opens new possibilities for mechanical design and automatic functions. After a discussion of the mechanical and electronic design the organization of information processing in different levels is described. Within this frame 'low-degree intelligent' mechatronie systems can be developed which comprise adaptive control, supervision with f...

paper deals with accurate positioning of pneumatic actuator using solenoid controller to development a fast, accurate, and inexpensive position-controlled that may be applied to a variety of practical positioning applications are described. A Pulse Width Modulation PWM valve pulsing algorithm to allow the on/off solenoid valves to use in the place of costly servo valve. The open-loop characteri...

Magnetic shape memory alloy actuator is a new type of actuator that can offer big travel and high resolution of output displacement, which makes it suitable for driving task. However, its output displacement represents the hysteresis applied to input magnetic field. Hysteresis restricts its application in the high precision positioning. In order to eliminate the hysteresis of magnetic shape mem...

Chapter 2 describes the various concepts of Active Component Control that can help to meet future engine requirements by an active improvement of the component characteristics. The concept is based on an intelligent control logic, which senses actual operating conditions and reacts with adequate actuator action. This approach can directly improve engine characteristics as performance, operabili...