A. Molaei, Amir Hooshiar Ahmadi, V. Karamzadeh, E. Abedloo, J. Dargahi
{"title":"Pretensioned Structures as Multi Axis Force Sensors","authors":"A. Molaei, Amir Hooshiar Ahmadi, V. Karamzadeh, E. Abedloo, J. Dargahi","doi":"10.1109/ICROM.2017.8466200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICROM.2017.8466200","url":null,"abstract":"Multi axis force sensors have a great range of applications from micro scale force sensing at micro-surgical task to measuring large forces in aerospace and ship industries. Using kinematic structures for the design of the force sensors, the movement of the applied force can be confined in certain direction, thus providing the possibility of measuring specific components of the force/torque. By calculating the stiffness matrix of the kinematic structure the applied force on the payload platform is obtained through measuring the displacement of the joints of the mechanism under the external load. In this paper we investigate application of pretensioned closed kinematic structure for multi axis force sensors applications. Based on the concept provided here a planar sensor is introduced and a suitable design is found based on the mathematical formulation.","PeriodicalId":166992,"journal":{"name":"2017 5th RSI International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131985204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mohammad Javad Karamin Manesh, Akbar Nikzad Goltapeh
{"title":"Swing up and Arm Trajectory Tracking of the Furuta Pendulum with Sliding Mode Control","authors":"Mohammad Javad Karamin Manesh, Akbar Nikzad Goltapeh","doi":"10.1109/ICROM.2017.8466146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICROM.2017.8466146","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the swing-up problem of the Furuta pendulum has been solved by introducing a new combined method based on the frequency response, and the sliding mode method. Furthermore, a trajectory tracking controller has been introduced and applied to the Furuta pendulum; which the pendulum remained regulated at the upward position, while the arm tracks a desired time-varying trajectory. The hierarchical sliding mode control (HSMC) approach has been employed to achieve the mentioned goals. The Furuta system is made up of two subsystems. Based on this physical structure, the hierarchical structure of the sliding surfaces is designed as follows: first, the sliding surface of each subsystem is defined. Then the sliding surface of one subsystem is established as the first layer sliding surface. Eventually, this layer is used to construct the second layer sliding surface with the sliding surface of the other subsystem. According to the hierarchical structure, the total control law is deduced, and stability of the closed-loop system has been proved by the Lyapunov theorem. Simulation results have been shown the validity of the proposed method. Finally, the tracking performance of the mentioned method has been compared with the feedback linearization controller and superiority of the HSMC has been revealed.","PeriodicalId":166992,"journal":{"name":"2017 5th RSI International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131299910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mojtaba Esfandiari, Kiyanoush Nazari, F. Farahmand
{"title":"Robust Adaptive Bilateral Control of Teleoperation Systems with Uncertain Parameters and Unmodeled Dynamics","authors":"Mojtaba Esfandiari, Kiyanoush Nazari, F. Farahmand","doi":"10.1109/ICROM.2017.8466184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICROM.2017.8466184","url":null,"abstract":"Kinematic and dynamic parameters of robot manipulators are difficult to measure exactly. Also, time varying unknown dynamical parameters of human arm, during interaction with the master robot and unknown parameters of environment during interaction with the slave robot, in teleoperation systems, insert further uncertainties. Furthermore, unknown parameters, unmodeled dynamics of master/slave robots, human arm model and environment introduce more uncertainties. In this paper, a robust adaptive master-slave teleoperation control strategy is introduced which require neither the exact knowledge about the parameters of the master/slave robots, human arm and environment, because of the adaptability with the unknown parameters, nor the exact dynamical equation of master/slave Falcon robot, because of the robustness against the unmodeled dynamics. Two Novint Falcon robots are used as master/slave robots and due to having the highly nonlinear complexity of these robots, they are considered as a single translational equivalent mechanism with known inertia, damping and stiffness coefficient and an unmodeled dynamic term because of this approximation. The human arm and environment are modeled as a 1-DoF mass, spring and damper model (MSD) with unknown coefficients. Moreover, an additional nonlinear spring and nonlinear damper has been used for better approximation of nonlinear property of the human arm and the environment. A Lyapunov function is introduced for stability and the position tracking convergence proof of the entire teleoperation system. The validity of the theory is confirmed by simulations.","PeriodicalId":166992,"journal":{"name":"2017 5th RSI International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM)","volume":"642 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131886672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arman Mohammadi, M. Zakerzadeh, A. Yousefi-Koma, Sadaf Mohajerin, S. Zohoori
{"title":"Passive vibration control of a cantilever beam using shunted piezoelectric element","authors":"Arman Mohammadi, M. Zakerzadeh, A. Yousefi-Koma, Sadaf Mohajerin, S. Zohoori","doi":"10.1109/ICROM.2017.8466191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICROM.2017.8466191","url":null,"abstract":"in this paper general modeling of a cantilever beam with shunt damping effect, by using piezoelectric elements has been studied. It is found that on some beam cases, additional damping, which is augmented to a system, is generated by the shunt damping effect. The governing equations of shunt damping and boundary conditions are derived using Hamilton's principle. The piezoelectric element's voltage has been generated due to beam vibration. The response of a cantilever beam using parallel and series shunt circuits with certain initial condition has obtained and this response is compared to the free vibration of the beam. The passive control strategy is validated by experimental data.","PeriodicalId":166992,"journal":{"name":"2017 5th RSI International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133445869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Terramechanics-based performance enhancement of the wide robotic wheel on the soft terrains, Part II: torque control of the optimized wheel","authors":"A. Mardani, S. Ebrahimi","doi":"10.1109/ICROM.2017.8466156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICROM.2017.8466156","url":null,"abstract":"the second part of the present paper focuses on torque control of the optimized wide robotic wheels moving on the soft soil. The SCM method is implemented to numerically simulate the soil-wheel interaction during the dynamic control process. The power consumption, maximum sinkage, lateral forces, effective radius and traction error are the measures which are necessary to investigate the effect of the wheel shape in torque control process. The simulations are classified into pure steering, pure linear motion and complex point tracking to calculate the measures in various situations. The pure steering simulation investigates the effect of the wheel shape on the lateral forces and the sinkage. The effective radius and the distance are investigated through the linear movement. The point tracking simulation considers all measures investigated in a torque control process.","PeriodicalId":166992,"journal":{"name":"2017 5th RSI International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM)","volume":"9 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131958685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Payman Joudzadeh, Alireza Hadi, K. Alipour, Bahram Tarvirdizadeh
{"title":"Design and Implementation of a Cable Driven Lower Limb Exoskeleton for Stair Climbing","authors":"Payman Joudzadeh, Alireza Hadi, K. Alipour, Bahram Tarvirdizadeh","doi":"10.1109/ICROM.2017.8466230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICROM.2017.8466230","url":null,"abstract":"To assist the disabled people, the exoskeleton systems have been developed in robotics. As a result, such systems have absorbed a lots of interest in recent years. One of the main challenges of developing exoskeleton systems is their perfect design. In the present study, to help the elderly people a lower-limb exoskeleton is designed and fabricated which assist them for stair climbing. To this end, a conceptual design of such a wearable robot is presented. Simulation of the system is performed in ADAMS and its effectiveness was shown. In addition, a prototype of the system is manufactured to show the performance and functionality of system in some stair climbing trials.","PeriodicalId":166992,"journal":{"name":"2017 5th RSI International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129487817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. M. Tabrizi, Hossein Mirzanejad, A. Fathian, A. Sharifnejad, M. Agheli
{"title":"Design and Realization of a totally Embedded smart Insole","authors":"M. M. Tabrizi, Hossein Mirzanejad, A. Fathian, A. Sharifnejad, M. Agheli","doi":"10.1109/ICROM.2017.8466201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICROM.2017.8466201","url":null,"abstract":"Because of their professional activities, athletes use a personalized insole in order to get the best performance while practicing. To develop a personalized insole, athletes' gait must be measured first and then an efficient personalized insole can be developed based on the gathered information from the measurement results. Therefore, a reliable measurement of the gait is necessary. There has been extensive research conducted to measure people's gaits, but they usually need to be done in an equipped laboratory imposing artificial constraints, which causes, in most cases, to get non-realistic measurement results. The long purpose of this research is to create a shoe pad with embedded sensitive electronics that can be placed in a shoe to measure and store an athlete's gait information without imposing any artificial constraints to be used in designing an efficient personalized insole for the athlete. However, as the first step of the research, in this paper, an in-shoe insole consisting selective number of force sensitive resistors is introduced, developed, and validated under static condition. Choosing silicone as the material for the shoe pad and force sensors for data acquisition, a prototype shoe pad was to measure the weight distribution for the different sections of the foot. A computer program was developed to visually depict the force distribution of the foot. To validate the capability of the created insole in measuring the desired data, weight distribution of a healthy person with a normal foot force distribution was measured experimentally. Collected data from sensors embedded under selected areas, as the candidates of highest pressure bearing areas of foot sole, complies with the expectations as from the literature. This indicates that a viable shoe pad as described could indeed be made, and utilized to gather data from the person's gait usable in making an efficient personalized insole.","PeriodicalId":166992,"journal":{"name":"2017 5th RSI International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM)","volume":"250 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114071904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of the Stiffness Feasible Workspace of the Cable-Driven Parallel Robots","authors":"Javad Bolboli, M. Khosravi, F. Abdollahi","doi":"10.1109/ICROM.2017.8466232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICROM.2017.8466232","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper stiffness of the cable-driven parallel robot is analyzed and then the concept of the stiffness-feasible workspace is presented based on internal forces. Analysis of wrench closure workspace and stiffness matrix for determined values of internal forces in all over of the fixed frame will determine this workspace. The proposed approach gives a range of internal forces that can improve the stiffness of the robot. Since the proposed workspace depends on the structure of robot, geometrical parameters of the robot are optimally designed to maximize stiffness-feasible workspace and wrench closure workspace. At the end, simulation results on a planar cable robot are presented to verify operation of the robot in the stiffness-feasible workspace by designed geometrical parameters.","PeriodicalId":166992,"journal":{"name":"2017 5th RSI International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM)","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128587873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Simulator for Investigating the Effects of Morphological Variations on the Behavior of Compliant Quadruped Robots","authors":"Atoosa Parsa, H. J. Bidgoly, M. N. Ahmadabadi","doi":"10.1109/ICROM.2017.8466170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICROM.2017.8466170","url":null,"abstract":"Deciding on the suitable values for robot's morphological parameters is a complex task. Robot designers require a scientific tool to observe the influence of these parameters on the output behavior to help them decide about their implementation. Changing the structure is not an easy task even in the current available simulators. Moreover, using a dynamics engine from scratch is a complex task. In this paper, we introduce a simulator for quadruped robots using the ODE library to make the morphological study as simple as possible. It uniquely provides the opportunity to transfer morphological changes to the simulation instantly and to obtain performance characteristics such as transportation cost and robot's average speed. An illustrative example highlights the outline of this simulator, its features and capabilities.","PeriodicalId":166992,"journal":{"name":"2017 5th RSI International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124971475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amir Salimi Lafmejani, Behzad Danaei, A. Kalhor, M. T. Masouleh
{"title":"An Experimental Study on Control of a Pneumatic 6-DoF Gough-Stewart Robot Using Backstepping-Sliding Mode and Geometry-Based Quasi-Forward Kinematic Method","authors":"Amir Salimi Lafmejani, Behzad Danaei, A. Kalhor, M. T. Masouleh","doi":"10.1109/ICROM.2017.8466136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICROM.2017.8466136","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the trajectory tracking control problem is addressed for a pneumatically actuated 6- DoF Gough-Stewart parallel robot. At first, dynamic model of the pneumatic system of each link of the robot which comprises a pneumatic actuator and a proportional electrical control valve is extracted. Unknown parameters of the obtained dynamic model consisting friction force, viscous coefficient and the parameters of the valve are identified by employing an evolutionary algorithm. Then, position control of the robot's pneumatic actuator is investigated based on designing Backstepping-Sliding Mode controller according to the nonlinear dynamic model of the pneumatic system. Moreover, kinematic equations of the 6- DoF parallel robot are achieved and a novel method is proposed, the so-called Geometry-based Quasi-Forward Kinematic, which calculates position of the end-effector of the robot without using expensive position sensors. Accordingly, kinematically closed-loop control of the parallel robot, which is based on simultaneous joint space and task space control, is investigated for trajectory tracking using potentiometers, a rotation sensor and based on the computed position of the end-effector by the proposed method. Desired sinusoidal pure rotations and translations are tracked in which root mean square error of the pure translations and rotations are lower than 1.3 (cm) and 2.6 (deg), respectively. The experimental results reveal that trajectory tracking control of the pneumatic 6-DoF Gough-Stewart parallel robot performs properly based on the proposed control strategies and the novel method for calculating position of the end-effector.","PeriodicalId":166992,"journal":{"name":"2017 5th RSI International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131415290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}