• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1996.10b
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• pp.718-721
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• 1996

In this work, an effective stiffness generated by internal loading for a planar 3 degrees of freedom RCC mechanism is investigated. For this purpose, the internal kinematic analysis and antagonistic stiffness modeling for this mechanism are performed. It is shown that the antagonistic stiffness could be effectively created at the center of the mechanism in its symmetric configuration.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.23-42
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• 1991

본 논문은 시스템 운동학적 자유보다도 많은 수의 input을 사용하여 비선형 구속조건을 갖는 메 카니즘의 정역학적 평형을 유지시키는 경우와 같이 일반 로봇 시스템의 협력 작업시 일어나는 antagonistic stiffness를 연구하였다. 이러한 antagonistic 상황은 coordinations of multiple manipulators, multi-fingered end-efector, walking machine, 그리고 인간의 움직임등을 포함하는 많은 로봇 시스템의 작동시에 일어난다. Antagonism으로 야기되는 stiffness는 이러한 시스템의 특성을 파악하는 좋은 척도 가 될 수 있다. Antagonistic stiffness의 개념은 시스템을 구성하는 강체들의 상대 변위의 함수로 얻어 지기 때문에 바강체들이 변형하는 특성을 나타내는 structural stiffness와는 구별된다. 따라서 이 개념은 여유입력들에 의해 얻어지는 시스템의 effective stiffness로 해석될 수 있고, 일반 로봇 mechanism의 개 경로 안정도의 척도로 이용될 수 있으며 목적에 따라서 stiffness의 제어가 가능한 비선형 spring을 만 드는 데에도 응용이 가능하다. 본 논문에서는 antagonism이 일어나는 몇가지 상황에서의 stiffness 특성 과 개경로 안정성 조건등을 해석적, 기하학적 관점에서 다루었다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.846-855
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• 1994

An effective stiffness, analogous to that of a wound spring, can be created by antagonistic redundant actuation of general closed-chain mechanisms. The qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the effective stiffness are investigated through a Four-bar mechanism, and a load distribution method is introduced which simultaneously guarantees the required system motion and the effective stiffness of the Four-bar mechanism. Furthermore, a simulation is performed to understand the inter-relationship among the effective stiffness, the Four-bar geometry, and the actuation effort. Based on this analysis, the Four-bar synthesis problem for effective stiffness generation is discussed.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.18 no.9
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• pp.2284-2296
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• 1994

Force control of robotic mechanisms continues to be a challenging area. Previous implementation have seldom produced satisfactory results, and researchers in the past have experienced significant instability problems associated with their force controllers. In this study, a new stability factor in force control will be pointed out. When a manipulator is constrained to an environment(force-controlled), geometric instability due to the relationship between the manipulator configuration and the force-controlled direction is shown to be a significant factor in overall system stability. This exploratory study points out a rather intuitive, geometrically based stability factor in terms of an effective system stiffness and analyzes the phenomenon both analytically and graphically. Also, a stiffness control algorithm using the kinematic redundancy of a kinematically redundant manipulator is proposed to improve the overall stability in force control.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.215-222
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• 2003

In this paper, kinematic analysis and design of constant force mechanisms which employ a linear spring are studied. Firstly, sufficient conditions for the mechanisms to be the constant force mechanisms are derived in terms of displacement variables through the kinematic analysis. Secondly, a few conceptual mechanisms satisfying these constraints are proposed.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.37 no.12
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• pp.1521-1527
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• 2013

This study proposes a wearable master device that can measure the joint stiffness and the angular displacement of a human operator to enhance the adapting capability of a slave system. A lightweight inertial sensor and the exoskeleton mechanism of the master device can make an operator feel comfortable, and artificial pneumatic muscles having a working principle similar to that of human muscles improve the performance of the slave device on emulating what a human operator does. Experimental results revealed that the proposed master/slave system based on the muscle stiffness sensor yielded uniform tracking performance compared with a conventional position-feedback controller when the payload applied to the slave system changed.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.41 no.8
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• pp.771-782
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• 2017

This paper describes the development of a wearable robot to assist ankle power for the elderly. Previously developed wearable robots have generally used motors and gears to assist muscle power during walking. However, the combination of motor and reduction gear is heavy and has limitations on the simultaneous control of stiffness and torque due to the friction of the gear reducer unlike human muscles. Therefore, in this study, Mckibben pneumatic muscle, which is lighter, safer, and more powerful than an electric motor with gear, was used to assist ankle joint. Antagonistic actuation using a pair of pneumatic muscles assisted the power of the soleus muscles and tibialis anterior muscles used for the pitching motion of the ankle joint, and the model parameters of the antagonistic actuator were experimentally derived using a muscle test platform. To recognize the wearer's walking intention, foot load and ankle torque were calculated by measuring the pressure and the center of pressure of the foot using force and linear displacement sensors, and the stiffness and the torque of the pneumatic muscle joint were then controlled by the calculated ankle torque and foot load. Finally, the performance of the developed ankle power assistive robot was experimentally verified by measuring EMG signals during walking experiments on a treadmill.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.419-424
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• 2017

Twisted string actuators (TSAs) are tendon-driven actuators that provide high transmission ratios. Twisting a string reduces the length of the string and generates a linear motion of the actuators. In particular, TSAs have characteristic properties (compliance) that are advantageous for operations that need to interact with the external environment. This compliance has the advantage of being robust to disturbance in force control, but it is disadvantageous for precise control because the modeling is inaccurate. In fact, many previous studies have covered the TSA model, but the model is still inadequate to be applied to actual robot control. In this paper, we introduce a modified variable radius model of TASs and experimentally demonstrate that the modified variable radius model is correct compared to the conventional variable radius string model. In addition, the elastic characteristics of the TSAs are discussed along with the experimental results.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.361-367
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• 2015

This paper presents the design concept of an intrinsic continuum robot for safe man-machine interface and characteristic behaviors of its end-effector based on real experiments. Since pneumatic artificial muscles having similar antagonistic actuation to human muscles are used for main backbones of the proposed robot as well as in the role of the actuating devices, variable stiffness of robotic joints can be available in the actual environment. In order to solve the inherent shortcoming of an intrinsic continuum robot due to bending motion of the backbone materials, a Kalman filter scheme based on a triaxial accelerometer and a triaxial gyroscope was proposed to conduct an attitude estimation of the end-effector of the robot. The experimental results verified that the proposed method was effective in estimating the attitude of the end-effector of the intrinsic continuum robot.