This paper mainly researches one method of speed and location detection for maglev vehicles. As the maglev train doesn’t have any physical contact with the rails, it has to use non-contact measuring methods. The technology based on the inductive loop...
The loop-free single-layer hyperbolic cable net structure (LSHCS) is a new tensile cable structure for buildings, and it can overcome the disadvantages of key elements and the high tension in tensile cable structures with loop cables. The imperfectio...
Snake-like robots, which have high degrees of freedom and flexibility, can effectively perform an obstacle avoidance motion in a narrow and unstructured space to complete assignments efficiently. However, accurate closed-loop control is difficult to...
Partial discharge (PD) diagnosis tests, including detecting, locating, and identifying, are used to trace defects or faults and assess the degree of aging in order to monitor the insulation condition of medium- and high-voltage power cables. In this...
Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (CDPRs) are a special kind of parallel manipulator that uses cables to control the position and orientation of the mobile platform or end effector. The use of cables instead of rigid links offers some advantages over thei...
In the paper, the thermal compensation loops on a composite, superconducting NbTi cable were investigated. This type of cable is used in the superconducting, fast ramping magnets of the SIS100 synchrotron, part of the Facility for Antiproton and Ion...
The joint is the weak point of HV (high voltage) cable insulation systems; creep discharge between insulation layers of the cable joint, due to moisture intrusion, is one of the main defects leading to single-phase grounding. Carbonization on the ins...
The planning of multi-branch cable harness layouts holds significant practical importance in aircraft industrial contexts, yet it has received limited attention in prior research. This study aims to address the matter concerning the significance of m...
A Cable-Driven Continuum Robot (CDCR) that consists of a set of identical Cable-Driven Continuum Joint Modules (CDCJMs) is proposed in this paper. The CDCJMs merely produce 2-DOF bending motions by controlling driving cable lengths. In each CDCJM, a...
The design of every power supply system must guarantee the safety for human life even in the event of a fault. Due to the system change in the electrical power supply, the fault current contains more and more unknown shares of current harmonics. Espe...
Electromagnetic dampers are emerging as alternatives to conventional dampers applied to stay cables of bridges because they can reduce maintenance costs and allow vibration monitoring owing to their permanent driving characteristics and self-generati...
This paper presents a novel dynamic modeling framework for gantry crane systems based on the cart double pendulum with dual cables (CDPD) model. The CDPD model systematically incorporates the effects of dual suspension cables, equalizer beams, and cl...
Exoskeletons with a Bowden cable for power transmission have the advantages of a concentrated mass and flexible movement. However, their integrated motor is disturbed by the Bowden cable’s friction, which limits the performance of the force loading r...
The interaction between multiple loops and string cables complicates the dynamic response of triple square loops-string dome structures under seismic excitation. The internal connection between the multiple square loops-string cables and the grid bea...
One of the primary duties in the regular maintenance of electrical distribution networks is the cable stripping operation. In this paper, a unique robot is proposed to overcome drawbacks of the conventional manual operation of cable stripping, such a...
The number of high-voltage parallel cables is rapidly increasing. The alternating magnetic field generated by the working current of power cable cores induces voltage in the adjacent metal sheath; if the sheath and earth form a circuit, the metal she...
In this paper, we investigated the cascade controller of a motor-driven deep-sea robot cable system (MDRCS), which consists of the outer loop system and the inner loop system connected by a motor thrust with unknown factors, typically forming a cruci...
Cable elasticity is the principal obstacle to accurate positioning in large cable-driven parallel robots (CDPRs). The composite controller derived from singular perturbation theory addresses it by adding a vibration-damping correction to a rigid cont...
Cable failure is an extremely critical situation in the operation of cable-driven parallel robots (CDPR), as the robot might be instantly outside of its predefined workspace. Therefore, the calculation of a cable force distribution might fail and, th...
The reliability and service life of power cables is closely related to the cable ampacity and temperature rise. Therefore, studying the temperature field distribution and the cable ampacity is helpful to improve the construction guidelines of cable m...
The metal shield and metal armor layers of single-core cables on high-speed railroad power penetration lines are usually grounded by common equipment protectors. This grounding method brings a continuous circulating current between the metal shield a...
To address the problems of cable slackness and non-smooth cable-tension variation curves during the motion of an antagonistic cable-driven parallel robot (CDPR), this paper focuses on a three-degree-of-freedom (DOF) redundantly constrained CDPR. Firs...
With the higher penetration of renewable energy, the influence of grid equivalent distribution cable impedance on grid-connected inverter stability is attracting increasing attention. In order to suppress the interaction between grid distribution cab...
This paper proposes a hybrid position–force control strategy for overconstrained cable-driven parallel robots (CDPRs). Overconstrained CDPRs have more cables (m) than degrees of freedom (n), and the idea of the proposed controller is to control...
During quadrotor load transport, the cable’s elasticity exacerbates load fluctuations, which may result in platform instability or a potential crash. This paper introduced a model of the connecting cable as a spring-damper system and establishe...
High-voltage underground cables inevitably experience frequency-dependent electromagnetic (EM) losses, driven primarily by skin and proximity effects. These losses become more severe at higher harmonic frequencies, which are increasingly common in mo...
At present, the metal sheath of high voltage (HV) cables generally adopts the cross-bonded grounding method, which brings many types of faults and challenges the monitoring and diagnosis of the operation status of the cables. In order to effectively...
The changes of the seabed environment caused by a natural disaster or human activities dramatically affect the life span of the subsea buried cable. It is essential to track the cable route in order to inspect the condition of the buried cable and pr...
A critical requirement for rehabilitation robots is achieving high transparency in user interaction to minimize interference when assistance is unnecessary. Cable-driven systems are a compelling alternative to rigid-link robots due to their lighter w...
This paper describes a study on the dynamic modeling and the motion simulation of an unmanned ocean platform to overcome the limitations of existing unmanned ocean platforms for ocean exploration. The proposed unmanned ocean vehicle combines an unman...
In this study, to address the problems of multiple dimensions, large scales, complex tension resource scheduling, and strict quality control requirements in the tensioning process of cables in prestressed steel structures, the technical characteristi...
Due to their large working space and fast response, cable driven systems have been widely applied in manufacturing, robotics and motion simulators, etc. However, the cable is flexible and tends to resonate at high frequencies, which raises challenges...
The ankle is a complex joint with a high injury incidence. Rehabilitation Robotics applied to the ankle is a very active research field. We present the kinematics and statics of a cable-driven reconfigurable ankle rehabilitation robot. First, we stud...
The safe and efficient design of dynamic submarine cables is critical for the reliability of floating offshore wind turbines, yet traditional time-domain simulation-based optimization approaches are computationally intensive and time consuming. To ad...
With the increasing demand for electrical reliability, power grid companies often need to operate urban underground cable systems at flexible ratings during planned or emergency events, but the risk of failure caused by such loading operations has no...
The normal operational characteristics of power cables are a crucial foundation for developing their protection devices. To analyze the current and voltage characteristics of parallel cable lines, the parameter matrix of the phase-aligned parallel ca...
The development of offshore wind energy has increased the demand for reliable submarine transmission systems. In South Africa, research remains constrained due to the lack of operational offshore wind farms, despite favorable geographical conditions...
T700 carbon fiber bundles (CFBs) are the primary material used for manufacturing cable-net in a deployable antenna. In this paper, the relationships between the coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of T700 CFBs and the experimental load were invest...
The cooperative transportation of a cable-suspended load by two unmanned rotorcraft is analyzed. Initially, the equations describing a system composed of three point masses and two rigid cables are derived. The model is then linearized about the hove...
Precision agriculture requires robotic platforms capable of covering large cultivation areas while providing accurate positioning for localized crop monitoring and management operations. Cable-driven parallel robots (CDPRs) offer large workspaces and...
We optimized and fabricated an ultra-bend-resistant 4-core simplex cable (SXC) employing 4-core multicore fiber (MCF) suitable for short-reach dense spatial division multiplexing (DSDM) optical transmission in the O-band. The characteristics of trans...
The traditional power collection system design separately optimizes the connection topology and the cable cross sections, which may result in the inherent shortcoming of lacking the most economical solutions. In this pursuit, the present work envisag...
In remote power supply scenarios, long-distance transmission cables introduce voltage drops due to their inherent impedance, leading to load undervoltage. Additionally, dynamic current variations may cause significant fluctuations in load voltage, po...
A suspended cable–based parallel robot (CBPR) composed of four cables and an end–grab is employed in a pick–and–place operation of moving target gangues (MTGs) with different shapes, sizes, and masses. This paper focuses on tw...
To address the challenge in real-time communication mooring systems where clock synchronization and data transmission are difficult to achieve simultaneously over a single jacketed steel cable loop, this paper develops a dual-carrier inductively coup...
Determining the compatible prestress and geometry under self-weight constitutes a key challenge in the form-finding of cable–truss structures. To overcome the limitations of experience-dependent trial methods and enhance computational efficienc...
High-voltage (HV) cables are increasingly used in urban power grids, and their safe operation is critical to grid stability. Previous studies have analyzed various defects, including the open circuit in the sheath loop, the flooding in the cross-bond...
The advantages of exoskeletons based on the Bowden cable include being lightweight and flexible, thus being convenient in assisting humans. However, the performance of an exoskeleton is limited by the structure and human–exoskeleton interaction...
Precise finite element modeling is critically important for the construction and maintenance of long-span suspension bridges. During the process of modeling, shape-finding and model calibration directly impact the accuracy and reliability. Scholars h...
Cable suspension transport is a crucial method for quadrotors to transport goods and materials. During transportation, the quadrotor transport system (QTS) faces external disturbances and system uncertainties. Particularly, the underactuated nature o...
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