Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe and evaluate the time-varying and coupling dynamic characteristics of a 3-DOF parallel tool head. Design/methodology/approach From the view of control, a new dynamic index of a 3-DOF parallel tool head is proposed based on the dynamic model in the...

The pressurizer is one of the critical components in a nuclear reactor, whose main function is to maintain the primary system pressure within specific boundaries. The pressurizer is a large vessel that is made of carbon or low‐alloy steel shell, clad internally with a layer of stainless steel....

Landmark‐based navigation of autonomous mobile robots or vehicles has been widely adopted in industry. Such a navigation strategy relies on identification and subsequent recognition of distinctive environment features or objects that are either known a priori or extracted dynamically. This...

This paper contributes to the problem of humanoid robot gait generation in unknown environments. The intention of the proposed method is to create an autonomous humanoid robot, able to take decisions and generate the appropriate optimal gait based on the information received by the eye system....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the radial basis function (RBF) networks‐based adaptive robust control for an omni‐directional wheeled mobile manipulator in the presence of uncertainties and disturbances. Design/methodology/approach – First, a dynamic model is obtained...

During the casting of steel components, burrs and other unwanted material are formed which need to be removed in the deburring process. This is usually effected manually in what is an unpleasant, monotonous, strenuous and even a dangerous task. Robotic deburring can overcome these disadvantages,...

Psychology and neurobiology nowadays provide a large amount of precise information on visual system function. This information can be used in the design of autonomous systems capable of learning and recognising objects and places important for survival in complex unknown (real or virtual)...

Currently, academic as well as industrial research investigates the design of social skills for a robot, which could facilitate the robot’s interaction with humans. Work in this area pointed out three important abilities required by the robot, namely the capacity for communicating, for...

Going upstairs is a common humanoid robot task. In this paper, a genetic algorithm (GA) gait synthesis method for going upstairs and a radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) implementation, are considered. The gait synthesis is analyzed based on the minimum consumed energy and minimum...