There is increasing interest in broad application areas in defining flexible joint models for data having a variety of measurement scales, while also allowing data of complex types, such as functions, images and documents. We consider a general framework for nonparametric Bayes joint modeling through mixture models that incorporate dependence across data types through a joint mixing measure. Th...

In this article it is shown how the end effector position of a single flexible-link robot can be directly controlled by the angular position of its joint, so that, trajectory tracking in the end effector of the robot is possible by properly designing a reference trajectory for the joint angle. In order to ensure trajectory tracking of the angular position of the robot joint, a Sliding Modes Con...

This work treats the problem of dynamic modeling and state space approximation for robotic manipulators with flexibility. Case studies are planar manipulators with a single flexible link together with clamped-free ends and tip mass conditions. In this paper, complete dynamic modeling of the flexible beam without premature linearization in the formulation of the dynamics equations is developed, ...

The present paper describes a pneumatically-driven forceps manipulator for minimally-invasive robot surgery that has a simplified flexible wrist joint for easy fabrication, cost reduction and future miniaturization. The joint structure consists only of a machined spring, and four NiTi super-elastic wires fixed to the joint-end are actuated by pneumatic cylinders in push-pull motions. This mecha...

Todays, use of combination of two or more methods was considered to control of systems. In this paper ispresented how to design of a nonlinear H∞ (NL-H∞) controller for flexible joint robot (FJR) based on boundedUKF state estimator. The UKF has more advantages to standard EKF such as low bios and no need toderivations. In this research, based on spong primary model for FJRs, same as rigid robot...

Spiders rely on a hydraulic system to stretch their legs but use muscles make flex. The compound drive of hydraulics and muscle makes an integrate dexterous structure with powerful locomotion abilities, which perfectly meets the primary requirements advanced robots. Inspired by this hydraulics-muscle co-drive joint, novel flexible joint actuator was proposed its driving characteristics were pre...