This paper presents a new approach for collision avoidance of manipulators. When the workspace is completely mapped and the obstacles are known, it is possible to define the task considering the presence of obstacles or their proximity can be monitored simply by the inverse kinematics resolution of the complete system. However, when the workspace is poorly mapped/unstructured and/or time-varyin...

1 IRCCyN: UMR CNRS 6596, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Université de Nantes, Ecole des Mines de Nantes Abstract— Presented in this paper is the kinematic analysis of a symmetrical three-degree-of-freedom planar parallel manipulator. In opposite to serial manipulators, parallel manipulators can admit not only multiple inverse kinematic solutions, but also multiple direct kinematic solutions. This pr...

The inverse kinematics solutions of a reconfigurable robot system built upon a collection of standardized components is difficult to obtain because of its varying configurations. This article addresses the formulation of a generic numerical inverse kinematics model and automatic generation of the model for arbitrary robot geometry including serial and tree-typed geometries. Both revolute and pr...

We present algorithms for kinematic manipulation of molecular chains subject to fixed bond lengths and bond angles. They are useful for calculating conformations of a molecule subject to geometric constraints, such as those derived from two-dimensional NMR experiments. Other applications include searching out the full range of conformations available to a molecule such as cyclic configurations....

This paper briefly discusses two of the well-known position/force control schemes used for industrial manipulators: Admittance Control and Hybrid Position/Force Control. In order to eliminate the instability problem that may occur in the customary versions of these schemes for large position errors, a modification is proposed, which is based on determining the joint-space position errors using ...

This paper addresses validation of a curvature-theory-based time-invariant inverse kinematic model and a related tracking algorithm for human motor control of reaching motions. Human subjects made unconstrained reaching motions in the horizontal plane to fixed targets at three self-selected speeds. Consistent shoulder/elbow joint speed ratios for motions to the same target across speeds were ob...

This paper presents a kinematic model of the human arm in which the workspace of the elbow is modeled as a triangular B ezier spline surface. It is also explained how this model is used for solving forward and inverse kinematics in computer animation systems. In order to solve inverse kinematics problems, it is necessary to nd a curve on the surface modeling the elbow workspace. This curve is o...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa microsoftinternetexplorer4 in this paper, a fully discretized bio-fidelity simulation model for bio-mechanical (kinematic) analysis of scoliosis for various patients was developed to analyze forces on vertebrae, loads acting on the intervertebral disc, corresponding angles between vertebrae, and tension in the spine muscles during lateral bending. it w...

A hierarchical control architecture and a virtual model are under development on the basis of a biologically based analysis of manipulation. The control model has two levels: immediately over the effectors, the motoneurons give directly commands. Over it, the pattern generator and the inverse kinematic neural network transforms specifications of points to reach with the hand into joints values ...