A Review of Rehabilitative and Assistive Technologies for Upper-Body Exoskeletal Devices
Actuators, 2023 This journal review article focuses on the use of assistive and rehabilitative exoskeletons as a new opportunity for individuals with diminished mobility.
Emilly Hays +6 more
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MB-RRT: An Inverse Kinematics Solver of Reduced Dimension
IEEE Access, 2021 The evolution of manipulator robots has increased the complexity of their models and applications, requiring that the inverse kinematics (IK) methods integrated into their control systems to have features such as fast convergence, completeness, low ...
Matheus C. Santos +5 more
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Deployable Hook Retrieval System for UAV Rescue and Delivery
IEEE Access, 2021 The rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has helped expand their practical use to many industrial applications. However, UAVs sometimes suffer from a flight time limitation and/or a loss in communication.
Van Sy Nguyen +4 more
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A neural flexible PID controller for task-space control of robotic manipulators
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2023 This paper proposes an adaptive robust Jacobian-based controller for task-space position-tracking control of robotic manipulators. Structure of the controller is built up on a traditional Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) framework.
Nguyen Tran Minh Nguyet, Dang Xuan Ba
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Energy and Force Optimization of a Network of Novel Electromagnetic Soft Actuators
Energies, 2020 This paper discusses how to optimally design polygonal profiles of Electromagnetic Soft Actuators (ESAs) to be used in a network to achieve maximum output force with minimum energy consumption.
Nafiseh Ebrahimi, Amir Jafari
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FABRIK-R: An Extension Developed Based on FABRIK for Robotics Manipulators
IEEE Access, 2021 This paper develops on the process of inverse kinematics (IK) for manipulator robots based on a recent technique from the computer graphics area that has been highlighted by its simplicity and low computational cost.
Matheus C. Santos +5 more
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A Precise Neural-Disturbance Learning Controller of Constrained Robotic Manipulators
IEEE Access, 2021 An adaptive robust controller is introduced for high-precision tracking control problems of robotic manipulators with output constraints. A nonlinear function is employed to transform the constrained control objective to new free variables that are then ...
Dang Xuan, Joonbum Bae
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Influence of pesticides on respiratory pathology – a literature review
Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine, 2020 Introduction Pesticides are widely employed in agriculture, and the food industry is forced to combat the pests and diseases they cause. Respiratory pathology is related to occupational exposure to pesticides.
Simina Tarmure +6 more
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On the determination of cusp points of 3-R\underline{P}R parallel manipulators [PDF]
, 2010 This paper investigates the cuspidal configurations of 3-RPR parallel manipulators that may appear on their singular surfaces in the joint space. Cusp points play an important role in the kinematic behavior of parallel manipulators since they make ...
Chablat, Damien +3 more
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Research on compliant configuration of hydraulic manipulator with passive following characteristic
The Journal of Engineering, 2020 To decrease the injury caused by an accidental collision between the hydraulic manipulator and human, a hydraulic rotating angle self-servo compliant robot driver joint is designed. Based on this joint, a variable stiffness passive servo-hydraulic rotary
Lin Jiang +5 more
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