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CDC
2008
IEEE
139views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
Pull-in control during nanometric positioning by near field position sensing
This paper deals with the pull-in control and the nanopositioning of an electrostatically actuated NEMS (Nano Electromechanical System) squeezed between two forces. It is shown tha...
Sylvain Blanvillain, Alina Voda, Gildas Besan&cced...
TVCG
2011
108views more  TVCG 2011»
12 years 11 months ago
Creature Control in a Fluid Environment
—In this paper, we propose a method designed to allow creatures to actively respond to a fluid environment. We explore various objective functions in order to determine ways to ...
Michael Lentine, Jon Gretarsson, Craig A. Schroede...
CEC
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Evolvable mechanics: Hardware tools for evolutionary robotics
Embodying robot morphologies evolved in simulation can present serious problems for an engineer when translating simplified simulated mechanisms into working devices, often drawing...
Bill Bigge Inman, R. Harvey
IROS
2007
IEEE
126views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Passive and accurate torque control of series elastic actuators
— The principle of Series Elastic Actuation offers considerable advantages for haptic displays compared to stiff actuators. The interaction force between motor and load is direct...
Heike Vallery, Ralf Ekkelenkamp, Herman van der Ko...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
162views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Feedback linearization and simultaneous stiffness-position control of robots with antagonistic actuated joints
— In this paper, the dynamic model of a robot with antagonistic actuated joints is presented, and the problem of full linearization via static state feedback is analyzed. The use...
Gianluca Palli, Claudio Melchiorri, Thomas Wimb&ou...