From a functional standpoint, classic robots are not at all similar to biological systems. If
compared with rigid robots, animals' bodies look overly redundant, imprecise, and weak …

Underactuated robotics is an emerging research direction in the field of robotics. The control
input of the underactuated robot is less than the degree of freedom of the system. It has the …

In the field of modern industrial engineering, many mechanical systems are underactuated,
exhibiting strong nonlinear characteristics and high flexibility. However, the lack of control …

In practice, underactuated systems are widely used, and their control problems have
attracted much attention in recent years. For safety concerns or transient performance …

This review concentrates on three main challenges of controlling a quadrotor unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) as an underactuated mechanical system (UMS). The challenges …

Underactuated mechanical systems are those possessing fewer actuators than degrees of
freedom. Examples of such systems abound, including flexible joint and flexible link robots …

An underactuated mechanical system (UMS) is a system which has fewer independent
control actuators than degrees of freedom to be controlled. Control of UMS is considered as …

Snake Robots is a novel treatment of theoretical and practical topics related to snake robots:
robotic mechanisms designed to move like biological snakes and able to operate in …

In this letter, we study the effects that perception latency has on the maximum speed a robot
can reach to safely navigate through an unknown cluttered environment. We provide a …

This article is an historical overview of control theory applied to robotic manipulators, with an
emphasis on the early fundamental theoretical foundations of robot control. It discusses …