ROMANSY 18 - Robot Design, Dynamics and Control : Proceedings of the Eighteenth CISM-IFToMM Symposium - Schiehlen, Werner; Parenti-Castelli, Vincenzo; SpringerLink (Online service) (Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2010)
Keynote Lectures -- Where Future Robots should Go and should not Go -- Robust Drives for Parallel Robots -- Minimal-Form Multibody Dynamics for Embedded Multidisciplinary Applications -- Novel Robot Design and Robot Modules/Components -- Constructive Redesign of a Modular Metamorphic Microgripper -- A One-Motor Full-Mobility 6-PUS Manipulator -- Dynamic Hybrid Position/Force Control for Parallel Robot Manipulators -- Decoupled Parallel Manipulator with Universal Joints and Additional Constraints -- Positio: A 4R Serial Manipulator Having a Surface of Isotropic Positioning -- Joint space and workspace analysis of a two-DOF closed-chain manipulator -- Identification of Base Parameters for Large-scale Kinematic Chains Based on Physical Consistency Approximation by Polyhedral Convex Cones -- Modeling Effects on Free Vibration of a Two-Link Flexible Manipulator -- Chatter Suppression in Sliding Mode Control: Strategies and Tuning Methods -- On Solving the Forward Kinematics of the 6-6 General Parallel Manipulator with an Efficient Evolutionary Algorithm -- Determination of Mobility in a Kinematic Chain by Properly Using the Jacobian Matrix -- Micro Hinges and their Application to Micro Robot Mechanisms -- Parallel RPR-?-RPR Manipulator Generating 2-DOF Translation along One-Sheet Revolute Hyperboloid -- A Study on the Effects of Cable Mass and Elasticity in Cable-Based Parallel Manipulators -- Service, Education, Medical, Space, Welfare and Rescue Robots -- Motion Planning of the Trident Snake Robot: An Endogenous Configuration Space Approach -- A Novel Stair-Climbing Wheelchair with Variable Configuration Four-Bar Linkage -Mechanism Design and Kinematics- -- Motion and Force measures on tortoises to design and control a biomimetic quadruped robot -- Mechanism Design Improvements of the Airway Management Training System WKA-3 -- Design for a Dual-Arm Space Robot -- Mechanical Design of a Novel Biped Climbing and Walking Robot -- Humanoid Robots, Bio-Robotics, Multi-Robot, Multi-Agent Systems -- Development of the Anthropomorphic Waseda Saxophonist Robot -- Design and Simulation of a Waist-Trunk System for a Humanoid Robot -- Safe Navigation in Dynamic Environments -- Development of a Visual Interface for Sound Parameter Calibration of the Waseda Flutist Robot WF-4RIV -- Simulation of a Humanoid Robot walking gait on Moon Surface -- Development of New Biped Foot Mechanism Mimicking Human's Foot Arch Structure -- Design and Development of Bio-mimetic Quadruped Robot -- Static and Dynamic Maneuvers With a Tendon-Coupled Biped Robot -- Control, Modelling, and Analysis of Robotic Systems -- Kinematic Calibration of Small Robotic Work Spaces Using Fringe Projection -- Forward Dynamics of 3-DOF Parallel Robots: a Comparison Among Different Models -- Workspace Generation of Planar Wire-Actuated Parallel Manipulators with Antipodal Method -- Trajectory Following and Vibration Control for Flexible-link Manipulators -- Shaking Forces Minimization of High-Speed Robots via an Optimal Motion Planning -- Passivity Based Backstepping Control of an Elastic Robot -- Economical Control of Robot Systems Using Potential Energy -- Motion Control of an Under-Actuated Service Robot Using Natural Coordinates -- Control Law Synthesis for Slip Reduction of Wheeled Robot -- A Kinematic Model of the Tibio-Talar Joint Using a Minimum Energy Principle -- Innovations in Sensor Systems for Robots and Perception -- Development of the Ultrasound Probe Holding Robot WTA-1RII and an Automated Scanning Algorithm based on Ultrasound Image Feedback -- RFID-Assisted Detection and Handling of Packages -- Virtual Haptic Map Using Haptic Display Technology for Visually Impaired -- Extraction of Semantic Information from the 3D Laser Range Finder -- The Application of ICP and SIFT Algorithms for Mobile Robot Localization -- Estimation of Complex Anatomical Joint Motions Using a Spatial Goniometer -- Recent Advances in Robotics -- Modeling and Motion Planning for a Population of Mobile Robots -- Reconfigurable Planar Three-Legged Parallel Manipulators -- Multi-Objective Trajectory Planning in Wire-Actuated Parallel Manipulators -- Design of the Facial Expression Mechanism for Humanoid Robots -- A Method for Comparing Human Postures from Motion Capture Data -- Evaluation of the KOBIAN and HABIAN Emotion Expression Humanoid Robots with European Elderly People -- An Approach to the Dynamics and Kinematical Control of Motion Systems Consisting of a Chain of Bodies -- Modular Design of Emotion Expression Humanoid Robot KOBIAN -- A Random-Profile Approach for Trajectory Planning of Wheeled Mobile Robots With non-Slipping Constraint -- The Second Type of Singularity Analysis of the New Parallel Manipulator with 6 Degree-of-Freedom.
Keywords: Robotics; Automation; Vibration; Dynamical systems; Dynamics; Robotics and Automation; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control