Do You Need a Hand?: a Bimanual Robotic Dressing Assistance Scheme

Developing physically assistive robots capable of dressing assistance has the potential to significantly improve the lives of the elderly and disabled population. However, most robotics dressing strategies considered a single robot only, which greatly limited the performance of the dressing assistance. In fact, healthcare professionals...

Field Model Identification and Control of a Mobile Electromagnet for Remote Actuation of Soft Robots

The actuation of miniaturized robots through external magnetic fields has great potential for medical applications. The controllability properties of the miniaturized robots are affected by magnetic field generation modality. In this work, the magnetic field of a mobile electromagnet, notably capable to generate a desired magnetic field in...

Flexible robotic manipulator in space: towards a mathematical dynamics truth model

The objective of the study is to contribute towards the formulation of a mathematical truth model for the dynamics of a robotic manipulator which is attached to an orbiting spacecraft-manipulator system consisting of rigid constituent body is assumed to be known; here the generalization to the case of structurally flexible bodies is attempted....

Modelling and simulation of a rate controlled manipulator ARM

The mathematical model of a space based manipulator arm with a rate controlled end effector is defined and the recursive algorithms for the computation of the basic djmamic functions are formulated. A digital simulation of this system is implemented and preliminary results are presented. Actual running times for the simulation In a VAX 750...

An introduction to robot joint control methods

A vast amount of literature exists on the subject of robot control. However, most articles are based on only a limited number of control methods. In this report the basical principles of these control methods are described. Furthermore, some advantages and disadvantages of these methods are mentioned.