... to the design parameters. 14 12 2010 13 06 2011 24 10 2011 24 10 2011 actuators bars design engineering mechanical stability minimisation sensitivity dynamic balancing reactionless mechanisms optimization parallel mechanisms Generally, during the motion...

... compressive and tensile loading, and the quality of the internal seal is quantified. Finally, performance is shown to be comparable to that of a commercially available cup, and grasping capability is demonstrated on a wide range of objects. 03 10 2010 06 06 2011 27 09 2011 design...

... linkage in all its versions, planar, spherical, and spatial, as well as that of a transmission for the conversion of a rotation about a vertical axis into one about a horizontal axis. bars couplings curve fitting design engineering structural engineering surface fitting qualitative synthesis...

... couplings design engineering human-robot interaction manipulator kinematics 31 05 2010 26 04 2011 19 07 2011 19 07 2011 2011 American Society of Mechanical Engineers ...

... as adaptive cable-driven systems. Two simple design problems are presented and solved with both the traditional and the novel approaches, and the advantages of the latter are emphasized by comparing the resulting design solutions. cables (mechanical) design engineering end effectors manipulator...

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... 09 2010 bars benchmark testing design engineering prosthetics springs (mechanical) Research in the area of lower limb prosthetic devices has evolved tremendously since its inception to where it is today. The vast majority of current prostheses utilize passive elements...

... + computed in step 2 are the vertices of the polygon C i j + ∩ W . (d) Repeat steps (b) and (c) for C i j − . end end 29 09 2009 08 01 2010 27 07 2010 27 07 2010 cables (mechanical) design engineering end effectors geometry...

... contained inside the manifold, thus implying that the constraints are not violated. algebra chains design engineering manifolds mechanical engineering computing optimisation Typical task-driven problems, also known as motion synthesis problems, seek to synthesize the mechanisms...

... 2010 bars chains design engineering fasteners geometry kinematics parallel mechanism spherical chain constraint singularity screw system line geometry Parallel mechanisms have been extensively studied over the past decades because of high stiffness and accuracy. In recent...

.... 28 04 2008 12 10 2009 03 05 2010 03 05 2010 aerospace components aerospace robotics aircraft biomimetics design engineering robot dynamics vehicle dynamics There has been significant research involving mechanisms for flapping-wing micro aerial vehicles (FWMAVs...

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... provided by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CMMI-0457041 for this research. Hai-Jun Su also acknowledges the support provided by the National Science Foundation CAREER under Grant No. CMMI-0845793. 14 01 2009 11 06 2009 28 09 2009 bending design engineering...

.... is determined by the position vector r C 0 defined in Eq. 26 . 02 08 2008 09 12 2008 14 07 2009 actuators design engineering end effectors manipulator dynamics gravity compensation static balancing force balancing Gough–Stewart platform parallel manipulators...

... structure is to achieve a maximum output displacement. Here, we use the linear elasticity theory for simplicity. Design domain of the kinetostatic model for the compliant translational joint 15 05 2008 30 10 2008 12 01 2009 design engineering elasticity optimisation...

...J. Michael McCarthy design engineering robots 05 09 2008 Some may recall that twenty-five years ago in January 1983 the rapidly growing Journal of Mechanical Design was divided into two daughter journals. One became the Journal of Vibration and Acoustics and the other...

... into a design guideline as stated below. Graph showing internal and external power flows in a positive-ratio PFVA: ( a ) No futile power flow and ( b ) futile power-flow condition 03 01 2008 20 06 2008 05 08 2008 actuators control system synthesis design engineering gears...

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... to the monomial 1 in T 0 . Divide out the scale factor to retrieve the values of the remaining joint angle t 5 . 01 05 2008 20 06 2008 30 07 2008 bars couplings design engineering end effectors In this paper we begin with a spherical parallel manipulator...