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Machines, Volume 9, Issue 6

June 2021 - 21 articles

Cover Story: In a human–robot collaborative system, safety issues are the main pillars. Anti-collision control techniques are essential to improving operator safety and robot flexibility by preventing impacts that can occur between the robot and humans or objects found within the workspace. In this paper, a set of algorithms for dynamic collision avoidance are customized for the Universal Robots' collaborative manipulator class. Links of the robot are wrapped by adaptive cylindrical safety regions, whose radius varies according to the speed of the colliding obstacle. Three control laws are proposed, based on the type of motion admitted for the perturbation of the end-effector trajectory: the most general mode admits a 6-DOF perturbation, whereas reduced mobility modes allow for 4-DOF and 3-DOF perturbations. View this paper.
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Articles (21)

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
16,051 Views
26 Pages

Rotary compressors have been employed in heating and cooling for more than a century and are ubiquitous in daily life but there has not been any comprehensive record of their development and technological advances. This review paper attempts to provi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
12,551 Views
23 Pages

There is a growing interest towards multi-body modelling and simulation that play a critical role in the development and testing of new mechanical systems, in general, and formula cars specifically to avoid expensive and time-consuming experimental t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,118 Views
13 Pages

Currently, permanent-magnet-type traction motors drive most electric vehicles. However, the potential demagnetization of magnets in these motors limits the performance of an electric vehicle. It is well known that during severe duty, the magnets are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,503 Views
12 Pages

Determination of Heat Transfer Coefficient from Housing Surface of a Totally Enclosed Fan-Cooled Machine during Passive Cooling

  • Payam Shams Ghahfarokhi,
  • Andrejs Podgornovs,
  • Ants Kallaste,
  • Antonio J. Marques Cardoso,
  • Anouar Belahcen,
  • Toomas Vaimann,
  • Bilal Asad and
  • Hans Tiismus

This paper presents the analytical calculation of the heat transfer coefficient of a complex housing shape of a Totally Enclosed Fan-Cooled (TEFC) industrial machine when it works below 20% of its nominal speed or close to stall. Therefore, passive c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
7,381 Views
19 Pages

This paper presents a framework for the motion planning and control of redundant manipulators with the added task of collision avoidance. The algorithms that were previously studied and tested by the authors for planar cases are here extended to full...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,418 Views
21 Pages

Tool temperature variation in flank milling usually causes excessive tool wear, shortens tool life, and reduces machining accuracy. The heat source is the primary factor of the machine thermal error in the process of cutting components. Moreover, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,711 Views
17 Pages

Precise frequency measurement plays an essential role in many industrial and robotic systems. However, different effects in the application’s environment cause signal noises, which make frequency measurement more difficult. In small signals or rough...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,509 Views
22 Pages

Simulation of the Circulating Motion of the Working Medium and Metal Removal during Multi-Energy Processing under the Action of Vibration and Centrifugal Forces

  • János Kundrák,
  • Andrey V. Mitsyk,
  • Vladimir A. Fedorovich,
  • Angelos P. Markopoulos and
  • Anatoly I. Grabchenko

The rotational motion of the medium granules under the influence of an impeller installed in the bottom of a cylindrical reservoir is considered. The dependencies of the circulation velocity of the abrasive granules, as well as the dependence of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,220 Views
14 Pages

Robot Grasping System and Grasp Stability Prediction Based on Flexible Tactile Sensor Array

  • Tong Li,
  • Xuguang Sun,
  • Xin Shu,
  • Chunkai Wang,
  • Yifan Wang,
  • Gang Chen and
  • Ning Xue

As an essential perceptual device, the tactile sensor can efficiently improve robot intelligence by providing contact force perception to develop algorithms based on contact force feedback. However, current tactile grasping technology lacks high-perf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,094 Views
12 Pages

The study provides a solution to a dimensional synthesis problem for a hexapod-type reconfigurable parallel mechanism, which can change its configuration to realize different trajectories of its output link while having a single drive. The work prese...

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