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Within education, concepts such as distance learning, and open universities, are now becoming more widely used for teaching and learning. However, due to the nature of the subject domain, the teaching of Science, Technology, and Engineering are still relatively behind when using new technological approaches (particularly for online distance learning). The reason for this discrepancy lies in the fact...
This paper presents a wheeled humanoid robot as a structure composed by upper human-like body and mobile platform. The cart construction is supported by two driving wheels and one caster wheel and subjected to nonholonomic kinematic constraints. The real system configuration of the upper body and its model are represented as a fully anthropomimetic, compliant robot with antagonistic coupled drives...
The paper deals with a rapidly growing trend in robotics - anthropomimetics. Following a human paragon, bio-inspired control of the robot arm is presented using artificial neural networks. This work demonstrates results achieved by feedforward control comparing feedforward backpropagation networks and radial bases networks. Use of radial bases network prevails as an efficient tool to evade the exact...
This paper develops a dynamic model and designs a controller for a fully anthropomorphic, compliantly driven robot. To imitate muscles, the robot's joints are actuated by DC motors antagonistically coupled through tendons. To facilitate safe interaction with humans, the robot exploits passive mechanical compliance, in the form of elastic springs in the tendons. To enable simulation, the paper first...
The implementation of the distance learning and e-learning in technical disciplines (like Mechanical and Electrical Engineering) is still far behind the grown practice in narrative disciplines (like Economy, management, etc.). This comes out from the fact that education in technical disciplines inevitably involves laboratory exercises and this fact drastically increases the complexity of a potential...
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