Networked Tethered Flying Platforms (NTFPs) have gained growing interest in recent years
due to their versatility and cost-efficiency. These aerial platforms are linked to ground …

This paper presents a review of the state of the art in the area of cable-driven parallel
mechanisms. The basic kinematic architecture of cable-driven parallel mechanisms is first …

Nonpowered aerial vehicles such as kites can provide a means of transmitting wind energy
from higher altitudes to the ground via tethers. Although there have been many proposals for …

This work proposes a hierarchical nonlinear control scheme for quadrotor to track 3D
trajectory subject to payload variation and fast time-varying wind gust disturbance. In terms …

This paper presents the modeling, control system design, and experimental results for a
prototype lighter-than-air wind energy system being pioneered by Altaeros Energies. This …

This paper deals with the modeling and vision-based control of large-dimension cable-
driven parallel robots. Inverse kinematics and instantaneous inverse kinematics models are …

The large adaptive reflector is a Canadian design concept for a new type of large-scale
radio telescope. This new telescope would be composed of a reflector made of individually …

This paper investigates the dynamic modeling and passivity-based control of a planar cable-
actuated system. This system is modeled using a lumped-mass method that explicitly …

A parametric nonlinear model of cable-driven parallel manipulators endowed with a three-
dimensional end-effector is formulated and discussed in this paper. The proposed model …

In this brief, a planar cable-driven parallel manipulator is controlled using a strictly positive
real compensator, cable pretension is explicitly accounted for, and cable slack is avoided. A …