Governmental environmental protection is often implemented by specifying a standard value of pollution, measured or actual, not to be exceeded. We consider the standard for ozone in the United States, interpreting it using a hypothesis testing framework, and show (in a simplified setting) how a statistician could implement this standard. This implementation is contrasted to the implementation b...

Complaint mechanisms are the focus of active research because of the stability, robustness and ease of manufacturing endowed by their unitized construction. In this paper, we explore an application of complaint mechanisms for active vibration isolation system, for this, a complaint actuator is used to cancel undesired disturbance, resulting in attenuated output amplitude. The scope of this stud...

1. Abstract In this paper the problem of designing compliant mechanisms with stress constraints is addressed. The well-known difficulty of high stresses in mechanism designs obtained by topology optimization methods is handled by the introduction of stress constraints in the problem formulation. By the use of a sequential linear integer programming method the stress constraints can be handled e...

This paper presents new concept for controlling manipulators in compliant motion tasks. Compliant motion requires interaction control strategies governed by indirect force control (Compliance and Impedance control) or direct force control. Impedance control and compliant behavior for safe human-robot physical interaction of industrial robots, normally can be achieved by using active compliance ...