... of micromechanisms in microelectromechanical systems (MEMSs), bio-MEMS, and nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMSs). control system synthesis finite element analysis genetic algorithms graph theory grippers industrial manipulators manipulator kinematics 09 10 2007 13 06 2008 30 09 2008...

.... cartons dexterous manipulators industrial control industrial manipulators manipulator kinematics packaging Rapid expansion of robotics and automation technology in recent years has led to development of robots in packaging industry. Though pick and place robots were extensively used, complex...

... industrial manipulators mechanical contact robotic assembly shear deformation structural engineering As the contact force and contact point are essential for compliant finger design, they are not easy to obtain. Simple closed-form equations ( 2 3 ) may be insufficient for sophisticated design. More...

... not demand such workspaces but accuracy and light weight, respectively. Part of this technical brief was published in the Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Robotics and Mechanisms. redundant manipulators industrial manipulators position control 2007 American Society of Mechanical...

... loop systems closed loop systems motion control compliance control manipulator kinematics force feedback torque computational complexity stability industrial manipulators target tracking open loop closed loop manipulation hybrid control In many applications such as deburring...

... and the parameters’ effect on the compliance and presents a suitable parameter range for design of the compliant platform device. Email: jian.dai@kcl.ac.uk 22 12 2004 11 09 2005 industrial manipulators assembling Jacobian matrices springs (mechanical) eigenvalues and eigenfunctions...

... 2004 05 09 2005 industrial manipulators manipulator kinematics boundary-value problems algebra design engineering kinematics serial manipulators workspace geometric singularities void Workspace and singularity analyses of serial manipulators have been the focus...

...S. Hernandez; S. Bai; J. Angeles Although bevel-gear robotic wrists are widely used in industrial manipulators due to their simple kinematics and low manufacturing cost, their gear trains function under rolling and sliding, the latter bringing about noise and vibration. Sliding is inherent...

... kinematics of the Tricept, a well-known in-parallel-actuated spatial manipulator. Numerical examples show adoption of the proposed method in dealing with two case studies. 22 05 2004 31 01 2005 industrial manipulators manipulator kinematics chains First presented at the 28th...

..., is tackled using redundancy of cables in the system. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the control strategy. 21 05 2004 04 10 2004 robust control control system synthesis freight handling end effectors industrial manipulators manipulator dynamics ships design...

... October 2003 secondary cells industrial manipulators quality control inspection optimisation In sectors such as electronics, packaging, pharmacy and many other light industries, there are a lot of circumstances where pick-and-place operations are required for manipulating, inspecting...

.... 01 April 1998 06 08 2002 industrial manipulators design engineering geometry robot kinematics Designing manipulator chains in a rigorous form should be of primary interest in robotics to have suitable robots and robotized systems. Indeed, in the recent past great attention...

... Parallel Manipulator with Position and Orientation Uncoupled,” in European Robotics and Intelligent Systems Conf., Corfou, June 23–28. Lur’e´, L., 1968, Me´canique Analytique , Tome II, Masson et Cie Editeurs, Paris. industrial manipulators design engineering actuators kinematics rotating...

... algorithm used a rational spline image curve to obtain a near constant kinetic energy. Robot path planning using the concept of trigonometric splines was discussed in Simon and Isik 10 . It was stated that the trigonometric splines outperformed algebraic splines. Industrial manipulators are frequently...

... robot kinematics industrial manipulators industrial robots machine theory CAD servomotors Parallel Robot Workspace Maximization Parallel robots, unlike serial, traditional ones, have the end-effector connected to the base by several kinematic chains in parallel. Research...

... manipulator kinematics polynomials position control mechanical control equipment industrial manipulators In 1965, Stewart 1 introduced the well-known parallel manipulator, Stewart Platform, as a flight simulator. This manipulator consists of six identical limbs, a coupler platform and a base...

... to look for survivors of an earthquake, pipe inspecting and cleaning, and space construction and exploration. robot kinematics industrial manipulators design engineering bending dexterous manipulators 2002 ASME ...

... received Aug. 2000. Associate Editor: J. S. Rastegar. 01 Aug 2000 industrial robots manufacturing processes lithography sintering industrial manipulators It is always desirable to evaluate a proposed robot design prior to full prototyping to ensure the swiftest and most cost...

... OF MECHANICAL DESIGN . Manuscript received January 2000. Associate Editor: G. S. Chirikjian. 01 January 2000 industrial robots motion control robot kinematics industrial manipulators algorithm theory Off-line verification of a trajectory of a parallel robot is very important...

... 01 Jan 2000 industrial manipulators position control compliance control robot dynamics machine control Due to the limited precision of the position controlled robot manipulator systems, tasks requiring high precision such as electronic part assembly cannot be successfully...