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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A method to formulate a dimensionally homogeneous Jacobian of parallel manipulators [PDF]
, 2011 This paper presents a general and systematic approach to formulate the dimensionally homogeneous Jacobian, which is an important issue for the dexterity evaluation and dimensional synthesis of f-degrees-of-freedom (DOF) (f ≤ 6) parallel manipulators ...
Huang, Tian +5 more
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Generalized Jacobian analysis of lower mobility manipulators [PDF]
, 2011 Mainly drawing on screw theory and linear algebra, this paper presents a general approach for Jacobian analysis of lower mobility manipulators. Given the definitions of twist/wrench spaces and their subspaces of the end-effector, the underlying ...
Huang, Tian +5 more
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