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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)

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,666 Views
14 Pages

Causes of the in-service damage to hydrocylinder liners were investigated, and the requirements to their working surfaces were systematized. Roughness parameter Ra was found not to provide a precise estimate of the surface quality because its reducti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,516 Views
21 Pages

In this paper, a method to suppress the vibration of a double-beam system with nonlinear synchronized switch damping on the inductor via a network (SSDI-net) is proposed. Unlike the classical linear piezoelectric shunt damping, SSDI-net is a nonlinea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,166 Views
12 Pages

This paper presents the two-phase condensation heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of R-513A as an alternative refrigerant to R-134a in a 9.52-mm OD horizontal microfin copper tube. The test facility had a straight, horizontal test sectio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,633 Views
13 Pages

Adaptive Obstacle Avoidance for a Class of Collaborative Robots

  • Giorgia Chiriatti,
  • Giacomo Palmieri,
  • Cecilia Scoccia,
  • Matteo Claudio Palpacelli and
  • Massimo Callegari

In a human–robot collaboration scenario, operator safety is the main problem and must be guaranteed under all conditions. Collision avoidance control techniques are essential to improve operator safety and robot flexibility by preventing impacts that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,523 Views
15 Pages

Generally, in the laser measurement of gears, the laser beam passes through the center of the gear, and the laser displacement sensor reads the spatial distance from the gear involute tooth surface to the laser displacement sensor. However, in this m...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,049 Views
7 Pages

A Product Pose Tracking Paradigm Based on Deep Points Detection

  • Loukas Bampis,
  • Spyridon G. Mouroutsos and
  • Antonios Gasteratos

The paper at hand presents a novel and versatile method for tracking the pose of varying products during their manufacturing procedure. By using modern Deep Neural Network techniques based on Attention models, the most representative points to track...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,520 Views
20 Pages

Autonomous underwater vehicle is an effective tool for humans to explore the ocean. It can be used for the monitoring of underwater structures and facilities, which puts forward more accurate and stable requirements for the system operation of the au...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,713 Views
19 Pages

Mechanical Design and Analysis of the End-Effector Finger Rehabilitation Robot (EFRR) for Stroke Patients

  • Yu Tian,
  • Hongbo Wang,
  • Baoshan Niu,
  • Yongshun Zhang,
  • Jiazheng Du,
  • Jianye Niu and
  • Li Sun

Most existing finger rehabilitation robots are structurally complex and cannot be adapted to multiple work conditions, such as clinical and home. In addition, there is a lack of attention to active adduction/abduction (A/A) movement, which prevents s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
4,392 Views
15 Pages

In order to reduce the negative effect of lightweighting of suspension components on vehicle dynamic performance, the control arm and torsion beam widely used in front and rear suspensions were taken as research objects for studying the lightweight d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
5,636 Views
15 Pages

Dual Resource Constrained Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Based on Improved Quantum Genetic Algorithm

  • Shoujing Zhang,
  • Haotian Du,
  • Sebastian Borucki,
  • Shoufeng Jin,
  • Tiantian Hou and
  • Zhixiong Li

Aiming at solving the problem of dual resource constrained flexible job shop scheduling problem (DRCFJSP) with differences in operating time between operators, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based DRCFJSP optimization model is developed in this pape...

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