{"title":"A 4WD omnidirectional wheelchair with a chair tilting mechanism for enhancing step climbing capability","authors":"M. Wada","doi":"10.1109/AMC.2008.4516113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AMC.2008.4516113","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the development of 4WD omnidirectional wheelchair with a chair tilting mechanism and experimental verification using a wheelchair prototype. For enhancing the mobility of standard wheelchairs, a new type of omnidirectional mobile platform with four-wheel drive (4WD) mechanism is introduced. The mobile platform includes a pair of normal wheels on the rear side of the platform and a pair of omni-wheels on the front side. The normal wheel in rear and the omni-wheel in front, mounted on the same side of the base, are interconnected by a chain or a belt transmission to rotate in unison with a drive motor, i.e. a synchro-drive transmission. To rotate a chair at the center of the mobile base about vertical axis, the third motor is installed on the platform. The prototype wheelchair with the proposed 4WD system is capable of climbing over a 9 cm single step. The 4WD system provides enhanced step climb capability however, chair inclination becomes large when either front or rear wheels are on a step because wheelbase of the developed wheelchair is almost same as a standard one. This large inclination not only gives a high risk for falling but also brakes a load distribution condition between front and rear wheels which is required for climbing the step. To solve these problems relating to the chair inclination, we develop a chair tilting mechanism for the 4WD wheelchair including lift up mechanism controlled by a stability algorithm using an inclination sensor. To verify the proposed system, experimental results are also presented in which successful climbing of a 9 cm step is realized.","PeriodicalId":192217,"journal":{"name":"2008 10th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control","volume":"203 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131437786","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":"Movement control using zero dynamics of two-wheeled inverted pendulum robot","authors":"N. Hatakeyama, Akira Shimada","doi":"10.1109/AMC.2008.4516038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AMC.2008.4516038","url":null,"abstract":"A high-speed motion control technique of inverted pendulum robots making use of the unstability is introduced. Inverted pendulum is self-regulated system to simulate a game that a child sways up umbrella or stick. And the controller design for various pendulums have widely challenged since 1970s. And the machines for human riding using this principle were developed in the U.S. Many biped walking robots have made use of this principle. Inverted pendulums are basically controlled as they do not fold up. Shiamda et.al. have insisted an opposite idea against the basic principle. The controller they presented broke down the balance of it on purpose when it moved. In order implement the idea, the controller was designed using zero dynamics which was derived by partial feedback linearization that controlled the tilt angle of the robot. However, the robot can only move straightly. This paper introduces the extended motion including revolving and curve motion by using nonlinear control theory. Furthermore, it shows the simulation and experimental results for validity.","PeriodicalId":192217,"journal":{"name":"2008 10th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132741697","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}
S. A. Jawed, D. Cattin, M. Gottardi, N. Massari, R. Oboe, A. Baschirotto
{"title":"A low-power interface for the readout and motion-control of a MEMS capacitive sensor","authors":"S. A. Jawed, D. Cattin, M. Gottardi, N. Massari, R. Oboe, A. Baschirotto","doi":"10.1109/AMC.2008.4516052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AMC.2008.4516052","url":null,"abstract":"A low-power interface for readout and motion-control of a MEMS capacitive sensor is presented. The interface consists of a hybrid third-order sigma-delta modulator. The interface enhances the linearity and stability of the sensor by applying force feedback through bias voltage modulation. The modulator employs a hybrid, continuous + discrete-time topology, to reduce power consumption by avoiding a separate pre-amplifier for the sensor. Power consumption in the modulator is further reduced by an op-amp sharing scheme. The interface is designed in 0.35 um CMOS technology and is simulated in Cadence-Spectre. Simulation results are shown for a MEMS capacitive microphone.","PeriodicalId":192217,"journal":{"name":"2008 10th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128348178","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":"Comparison of rolling friction behavior in HDDs","authors":"M. Kawafuku, A. Ohta, M. Iwasaki, H. Hirai","doi":"10.1109/AMC.2008.4516078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AMC.2008.4516078","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describe precise modelling about the friction characteristic of Head assembly in HDDs. In the recent research, the track pitch is more and more narrow for the increasing TPI. It is said that it is necessary to suppress the disturbance which was neglected in the part researches and to comprehend a behavior of each disturbance. In the following control system in HDDs, the head assembly was influenced the effect of several disturbances, e.g, RRO, flutter vibration, force disturbance, and so on. At the force disturbance, it caused by wind force, external shock, tension force of Flexible Printed Circuit, and friction. These disturbance recomposed between the cause of disk rotation and other effects. In this paper, we proposed a precise mathematical model of the disturbance caused by friction characteristic without effect of disk rotation. The experimental setup consists of the VCM with head arm and head assembly. The validity of the proposed mathematical model was verified that experimental setup.","PeriodicalId":192217,"journal":{"name":"2008 10th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114079011","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":"Uncalibrated visual servo control with neural network","authors":"R. Klobučar, J. Cas, R. Šafarič","doi":"10.1109/AMC.2008.4516044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AMC.2008.4516044","url":null,"abstract":"Research into robotics visual servo systems is an important content in the robotics field. This paper describes a control approach for a robotics manipulator. In this paper, a multilayer feedforward network is applied to a robot visual servo control problem. The model uses a new neural network architecture and a new algorithm for modifying neural connection strength. No a-prior knowledge is required of robot kinematics and camera calibration. The network is trained using an end- effector position. After training, performance is measured by having the network generate joint-angles for arbitrary end effector trajectories. A 2-degrees-of-freedom (DOF) parallel manipulator was used for the study. It was discovered that neural networks provide a simple and effective way of controlling robotic tasks. This paper explores the application of a neural network for approximating nonlinear transformation relating to the robot's tip-position, from the image coordinates to its joint coordinates. Real experimental examples are given to illustrate the significance of this method. Experimental results are compared with a similar method called the Broyden method, for uncalibrated visual servo- control.","PeriodicalId":192217,"journal":{"name":"2008 10th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128970486","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":"An estimation method of muscular tensions using functional effective muscle strength","authors":"Y. Hashimoto, S. Komada, J. Hirai","doi":"10.1109/AMC.2008.4516104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AMC.2008.4516104","url":null,"abstract":"Conventional estimation methods of muscular tensions, which utilizes gross joint torques caused by plural muscles, have not been accurate because of existence of bi-articular muscles that drive two joints at both ends. Kumamoto has been proposed the functional effective muscle strength of three antagonistic pairs of six muscles, which are a musculoskeletal model of human limbs in sagittal plane. The functional effective muscle shows relation between each muscle and corresponding joint torque for tip force. Estimation of muscular tensions by the functional effective muscle strength, however, is the maximum force, not the instantaneous force. This paper proposes an estimation method of instantaneous functional effective muscle strength by utilizing both a scaling using a magnitude of tip force and a muscle activity pattern for direction of tip force. Effectiveness of the method is confirmed by an exercise of hip and knee joints.","PeriodicalId":192217,"journal":{"name":"2008 10th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129369770","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":"Trajectory tracking control of a 6-degree-of-freedom robot arm using nonlinear optimization","authors":"F. Lombai, G. Szederkényi","doi":"10.1109/AMC.2008.4516144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AMC.2008.4516144","url":null,"abstract":"The trajectory tracking control of a 6-degree-of- freedom (DOF) rigid robot arm is described in this paper. The trajectories for the joint variables are generated in third-order spline form using general constrained nonlinear optimization, taking into consideration the joint position, velocity, acceleration, jerk and overall current consumption constraints during the movement. The trajectory tracking of the individual joints is solved using a discrete-time linear controller design. The obtained trajectories are previously checked to avoid collisions using oriented bounding boxes and their separating axis theorem tests. The complete inverse kinematics of the arm is symbolically calculated in the Mathematica computing environment and implemented in C++. Simulations and measurements show the applicability of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":192217,"journal":{"name":"2008 10th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128688708","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":"An improved adaptive neural network compensation of pivot nonlinearity in hard disk drives","authors":"F. Hong, C. Du","doi":"10.1109/AMC.2008.4516107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AMC.2008.4516107","url":null,"abstract":"In hard disk drives (HDDs), the movement of the read/write (R/V) head is driven by voice-coil-motor (VCM) which is supported by a pivot cartridge consisting of a pair of preloaded ball bearings. The pivot friction nonlinearity is defined as the frictional hysteresis that occurs at the bearing of the actuator pivot in the hard disk drives. This nonlinear effect can be observed as a large gain reduction especially in the low-frequency range and will cause large residual errors and/or high-frequency oscillations which in turn affect track-following and seeking performance. Basically, the linear techniques were usually used to suppress the influences by raising the low-frequency gain but were limited b.y the Bode's gain-phase relationship. In this paper, an improved adaptive neural network (NN) controller is designed to compensate for the pivot nonlinearity. To capture the time- varying uncertainties and nonlinearity, the adaptive tuning scheme is employed for the NN weights and the width in RBF functions. The proposed scheme has the advantages of fast convergence for parameter estimation and improvement of high hump of the magnitude of closed-loop sensitivity function. The simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.","PeriodicalId":192217,"journal":{"name":"2008 10th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128705431","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":"Four-quadrant bi-directional drive system based on PWM DC-DC converter","authors":"B. Axelrod, Y. Berkovich, A. loinovici","doi":"10.1109/AMC.2008.4516096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AMC.2008.4516096","url":null,"abstract":"A novel four-quadrant bi-directional drive system for a DC motor based on PWM DC-DC converter is presented. The converter provides both a positive and negative output voltage, which is supplied to the splitted armature circuit of the DC motor. The converter offers both the motoring and regenerative braking mode of operation. SPICE simulation and the experimental verification of the proposed system prove the ability and the advantages of the new solution.","PeriodicalId":192217,"journal":{"name":"2008 10th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control","volume":"134 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116349031","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":"An analysis of force control based on momentum","authors":"S. Sakaino, K. Ohnishi","doi":"10.1109/AMC.2008.4516092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AMC.2008.4516092","url":null,"abstract":"A stability analysis of force control based on momentum is presented in this paper. The inertia! force which makes the robot unstable such as centrifugal and Coriolis force is strictly modeled with this controller. Hence, the stability is improved. This fact is shown by an analytical approach with the transfer function. In order to increase response tracking capability, how to compose force feedforward and disturbance observer with the controller are also considered. The validity of the ways is confirmed by several simulations.","PeriodicalId":192217,"journal":{"name":"2008 10th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117327023","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}