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The development of mechanical models of the humerus-prosthesis assembly represent a solution for analyzing the behavior of prosthesis devices under different conditions; some of these behaviors are impossible to reproduce in vivo due to the irreversible phenomenon that can occur. This paper presents a versatile model of the humerus-prosthesis assembly. The model is used for stress analysis and displacement...
This paper presents a portable 3D graphical simulator for a Fanuc M-6iB/2HS articulated robot. The mechanical structure is modeled using OpenGL functions implemented in Qt Framework. The robot motions are simulated based on the direct and inverse kinematics equations also presented in this paper. The simulator features include quick motion, step-by-step simulation, 3D scene control functions, objects...
Myolectric control is nowadays the most used approach for electrically-powered upper limb prostheses. The myoelectric controllers use electromyographic (EMG) signals as inputs. These signals can be collected from the skin surface using surface EMG sensors, or intramuscular, using needle sensors. No matter which method is used, they have to be processed before being used as controller inputs. In this...
This paper proposes two algorithms for controlling the motion and generating the trajectory of a 3D simulated 6-DOF industrial robot. The accelerated motion equations are applied for each of the robot joints. The experiments consist in trajectory generation based on the graphical frames redraw time and the influence of the zoom function in the OpenGL scene during motion simulation.
Most electrically powered upper limb prostheses are myoelectrically controlled. The myoelectric controllers use surface electromyographical signals as inputs. These signals, collected from the surface of the skin, have to be preprocessed before being used as inputs for the controller. In this paper we present a classifier for surface electromyographical signals based on an autoregressive (AR) model...
Rapid changes on the goods market take place today. These changes require an increased flexibility of the production systems in order to quickly adapt the manufacturing system to a new model of product. However, increasing the flexibility usually also increases the complexity of the system, and therefore the costs per part produced. The challenge is to develop control strategies capable to increase...
This paper tackles the problem of the position measurement and estimation techniques in the robot navigation field based on Kalman filters. It presents the problem of the position estimation based on odometric, infrared and ultrasonic measurements. Further on deals with the theoretical and practical aspects of the state estimation based on Kalman filtering techniques. From the wide range of derivatives...
The aim of this paper is to present concepts and algorithms for formation navigation in multi-mobile robots systems. The behavior based approach was chosen considering a correspondence with biological systems. The paper presents aspects concerning absolute and relative mobile robots positioning within a formation, as well as inter-robot communication using a client-server model and TCP/IP protocol...
The development of a training system in the field of rehabilitation has always been a challenge for scientists. Surface electromyographical signals are widely used as input signals for upper limb prosthetic devices. The great mental effort of patients fitted with myoelectric prostheses during the training stage, can be reduced by using a simulator of such device. This paper presents an architecture...
This paper presents the conceptual design and the experimental results regarding the development of an industrial robot wireless controller using miniature computers. The industrial robot wireless controller is a part of a bigger project which has as main goal the development of a low-cost industrial robot simulation system. In this paper we describe the general hardware and software architecture...
This paper presents a Visual C++ and OpenGL application for 3D simulation of the serial industrial robots. To develop this application we started from the forward kinematics of the robot taken into consideration. The functions implemented in the source code are able to calculate the position and orientation of each robot joint, including the position and orientation of the robot gripper. With the...
We report on ongoing research regarding the development of open mobile robot architectures. Preliminary results of our work show that a great degree of modularity and complexity in mobile robot design can be achieved, by simply using off-the-shelf available hardware components. A hardware robotic platform would not be nearly as efficient, if it wouldn't be sustained by an adequate software system...
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