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An Intelligent Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Multiscale Entropy and SVMs
Sample entropy (SampEn) has been applied in many literatures as a statistical feature to describe the regularity of a time series. However, as components of mechanical system usually interact and couple with e...
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A New Euclidian Distance Based Approach to Measure Closeness to Singularity for Parallel Manipulators
Singularity configurations are particular poses of end-effector, for which parallel manipulators lose inherent infinite rigidity and in which the end-effector lose control. Finding how close the manipulator is...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Type Synthesis of a Family of 3-DOF Spherical Parallel Mechanisms Using Upper-Lower Combination and Axis Movement Theorem
Spherical parallel manipulators (SPMs) have a wide range of applications such as orienting devices and robotic wrists. In this paper, the 3 independent rotational characteristics of SPMs are divided into two g...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Novel Design of a Family of Legged Mobile Lander
During extraterrestrial planet exploration programs, autonomous robots are deployed using separate landers. In this paper, a concept of a novel legged robot is introduced which has inbuilt the features of land...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On Passive Limbs in the Design of Parallel Mechanisms
Passive limbs in parallel mechanisms can be introduced during type synthesis in order to reduce the possibility of redesigning or to decrease the complexity of the latter control strategy. In this paper, to fi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Extended Application of NURBS for Robot Motion Planning
A solution framework under a more general mathematical model is the basic support for the operation model and the motion model of the robot motion planning. By introducing the parameter of time, we establish a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Novel Design of the Actuation-Transmission System for Legged Mobile Lander Considering Large Impact
Landing and mobile exploration on the Moon and Mars has become a hot research topic recently. As a new exploration strategy, our previous work proposed the idea of the robot integrated with landing and walking...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On Project Based Teaching of Mechanical Design Course for Undergraduates in Shanghai Jiao Tong University
The course of mechanical design is to enable students in the university to understand, analyze and improve current machines as well as invent and develop new machines. Modern machines are mechatronic instead o...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Design of Legged Mobile Welding Robot
The mobility of wheeled or orbital mobile welding robot is constrained by obstacles, uneven terrain or orbit. A new legged mobile welding robot which can surmount obstacles and move freely on uneven terrain i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Type Synthesis of a Legged Mobile Lander Based on a Given Truss
The existing mode for exploratory mission of extraterrestrial body has some limitations of the exploratory range. In order to widen the exploratory range, a lander is expected to walk, i.e., it will be a robo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Dimensional Synthesis for the Chang’e-Type Legged Mobile Lander Based on Performance Atlas
Legged mobile lander (LML) possesses both landing and walking functions with the promising application prospect in extraterrestrial exploration. There are three challenges on the dimensional synthesis method f...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Project-Based Teaching Skills for University Course of Mechanism and Machine Science
The Mechanism and Machine Science (MMS) course is a fundamental engineering course to enable undergraduates to understand the analysis, design and operation principle of modern machines evolving rapidly nowada...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Metamorphic Variable-Axis Revolute Hinge and Its Induced Reconfiguration of Robotic Legged Lander
The robotic legged lander has three operation modes from adjusting, landing, to roving. To facilitate its reconfiguration reliably, this paper firstly introduces the design of a novel metamorphic variable-axis...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design and Analysis of a Novel Magnetic Adhesion Robot with Passive Suspension
The steel lining of large facilities is an important structure that experiences extreme environments and requires periodical inspection after manufacture. However, due to the complexity of their internal envir...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
System Design, Localization, and Forced-Based Trajectory Evaluation of the Magnetic Adhesion Robot
As the ultimate safeguard in nuclear power plants, the steel lining requires periodic weld inspection to ensure safety. Although robots have been developed to replace dangerous and inefficient manual inspectio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design of a Novel Wheel-Legged Robot with Rim Shape Changeable Wheels
The wheel-legged hybrid structure has been utilized by ground mobile platforms in recent years to achieve good mobility on both flat surface and rough terrain. However, many designs of the obstacle-crossing pa...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Elastodynamic Modeling and Optimization of Parallel Mechanism with Tube Structure
Elastodynamic model of parallel mechanism is important to elastodynamic optimization. Long prismatic pairs composed of tube structure are very common in the parallel mechanism. This work uses the kinematic pai...