Automatic design of fiber-reinforced soft actuators for trajectory matching

F Connolly, CJ Walsh… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Soft actuators are the components responsible for producing motion in soft robots. Although
soft actuators have allowed for a variety of innovative applications, there is a need for design …

Neural network based inverse kinematics solution for trajectory tracking of a robotic arm

AV Duka - Procedia Technology, 2014 - Elsevier
Planar two and three-link manipulators are often used in Robotics as testbeds for various
algorithms or theories. In this paper, the case of a three-link planar manipulator is …

Grappling spacecraft

CG Henshaw, S Glassner, B Naasz… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
This article provides a survey overview of the techniques, mechanisms, algorithms, and test
and validation strategies required for the design of robotic grappling vehicles intended to …

[HTML][HTML] The development and evaluation of a fully automated markerless motion capture workflow

L Needham, M Evans, L Wade, DP Cosker… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study presented a fully automated deep learning based markerless motion capture
workflow and evaluated its performance against marker-based motion capture during …

Kinematics modeling of a 4-DOF robotic arm

AA Mohammed, M Sunar - 2015 International Conference on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents the kinematics model of an RA-02 (a 4 DOF) robotic arm. The direct
kinematic problem is addressed using both the Denavit-Hartenberg (DH) convention and the …

Extending FABRIK with model constraints

A Aristidou, Y Chrysanthou… - Computer Animation and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Forward and Backward Reaching Inverse Kinematics (FABRIK) is a recent iterative
inverse kinematics solver that became very popular because of its simplicity, convergence …

Real-time marker prediction and CoR estimation in optical motion capture

A Aristidou, J Lasenby - The Visual Computer, 2013 - Springer
Optical motion capture systems suffer from marker occlusions resulting in loss of useful
information. This paper addresses the problem of real-time joint localisation of legged …

The modeling of inverse kinematics for 5 DOF manipulator

VN Iliukhin, KB Mitkovskii, DA Bizyanova… - Procedia …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper is the part of research aimed at creating robotic manipulator controlled by means
of Brain-Computer Interface for improving household self-reliance of persons with …

Robot planning for active collision avoidance in modular construction: Pipe skids example

Q Zhu, T Zhou, P Xia, J Du - Journal of Construction Engineering …, 2022 - ascelibrary.org
Robot-assisted assembly has shown great potential in modular construction for the future.
However, as the complexity of prefabricated structural modules increases, the likelihood of …

Time-optimal path following for non-redundant serial manipulators using an adaptive path-discretization

T Marauli, H Gattringer, A Müller - Robotica, 2023 - cambridge.org
The time-optimal path following (OPF) problem is to find a time evolution along a prescribed
path in task space with shortest time duration. Numerical solution algorithms rely on an …