...Ritesh A. Khire; Achille Messac Many engineering systems are required to operate under changing operating conditions. A special class of systems called adaptive systems has been proposed in the literature to achieve high performance under changing environments. Adaptive systems acquire...

... is a general paradigm that can be used in many other instances. Because of the very nature of robotic tasks, mechanically adaptive systems should be at the core of the development of intelligent robotic systems. By proposing a general and inclusive formulation of this principle and by providing a number...

... response decrease by up to 40 percent. Contributed by the Mechanisms Committee for publication in the JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL DESIGN . Manuscript received Aug. 1999; revised Jul. 2000. Associate Editor: C. W. Wampler II. 01 Aug 1999 01 Jul 2000 vehicles adaptive systems mechanical...

... in the Journal of Mechanical Design. Manuscript received Oct. 1999. Associate Editor: A. Diaz. 01 Oct 1999 search problems fuzzy logic optimisation nonlinear programming adaptive systems Optimization Algorithms Nonlinear Programming Simplex Fuzzy Logic Fuzzy logic 1...

.... M. Gosselin. 01 April 1999 flexible structures adaptive systems inverse problems elastic deformation By and large, kinematic chains of mechanisms have traditionally been designed to comprise of links that behave as “rigid” members. Such mechanisms derive their mobility...