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Robust control of a flexible manipulator with artificial pneumatic muscle actuators (유연한 공압인공근육로봇의 강건제어)

  • 박노철;박형욱;박영필;정승호
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1997.10a
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    • pp.1704-1707
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    • 1997
  • In this work, position and vibratiion control of a two-link manipulator with one flexible link, which an unkoun but bounded payload mass and two pair of artificial muscle-type penumatic actuators, are investgated. A flexible link robot has advantages over a figid link robot in the sense that it is much safer when it cones into contact with its environment, including humans. Furthermore, for the sake of safety, it would be more desirabel if an actuator could deliver required force while maintaining proper compliance. An artificial muscle-type penumatic actuator is adequate for such cases. In this study, a controller based on singular perturbation method, adaptive and sliding mode contro, and .mu.-synthesis is developed. The effectiveness of the proposed control scheme is confirmed through simulations and experiments.

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Network-type Cell Layout in Cellular Flexible Assembly Systems (셀형유연조립시스템에서의 네트웍형 셀배치)

  • 노인규;최형호
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.19 no.39
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    • pp.63-73
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    • 1996
  • With the success of flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs), flexible assembly systems (FASs) have been developed to automate factories further. As in a cellular FMS, a cellular FAS is considered as the most flexible and feasible assembly system configuration Because of the differences between manufacturing and assembly operation, the logic of cell formation and cell layout between a FMS and a FAS is not the same. Since the time for assembly operation is usually relatively short, the transfer time is thus very crucial for the performance of assembly systems. Therefore in assembly systems it is important to reduce the transfer time by sequencing operations efficiently and arranging machines like the sequences. The network-type layout is not only feasible for the machine arrangement based on operation sequences, but it has also layout flexibility. Therefore it is a reasonable layout configuration for cellular FASs. This paper presents a method for the cell layout based on the network-type layout in a cellular FAS design.

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Hydrodynamic characteristics of cambered NACA0012 for flexible-wing application of a flapping-type tidal stream energy harvesting system

  • Sitorus, Patar Ebenezer;Park, JineSoon;Ko, Jin Hwan
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.225-232
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    • 2019
  • In recent years, nonlinear dynamic models have been developed for flapping-type energy harvesting systems with a rigid wing, but not for those with a flexible wing. Thus, in this study, flexible wing designs of NACA0012 section are proposed and measurements of the forces of rigid cambered wings, which are used to estimate the performance of the designed wings, are conducted. Polar curves from the measured lift and drag coefficients show that JavaFoil estimation is much closer to the measured values than Eppler over the entire given range of angles of attack. As the camber of the rigid cambered wings is increased, both the lift and drag coefficients increase, in turn increasing the resultant forces. Moreover, the maximum resultant forces for all rigid cambered wings are achieved at the same angle of attack as the maximum lift coefficient, meaning that the lift coefficient is dominant in representations of the wing characteristics.

Challenges and suggestions in dealing with flexible space in predicting space utilization

  • Chen, Xingbin;Kim, Tae Wan
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.299-303
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    • 2015
  • Flexible space is an adaptable space that has been increasingly used in many office and academic buildings as it increases the use of the space available and reduces the unnecessary building area. However, the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industry lacks a formalized method that helps architects predict and update the space utilization of flexible space during the project development, as such prediction aims to maximize the use of the building space available without exceeding the target utilization policy. Consequently, current manual utilization prediction results in lower accuracy level and limits the maximized use of the flexible space, which has multiple space-use types that affect the prediction of utilization. To address this problem, we identified eight space-use type differentiators (SUTDs) based on the literature review and observations and discussed the use of them in automated space-use analysis (SUA), which can predict the utilization of flexible space via a computer program. This research builds on SUA and contributes to flexible space planning by providing a means of a more comprehensive and accurate SUA.

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Robust Back-Stepping Control with Polynomial-type PD input for Flexible Joint Robot Manipulators

  • Lee, Jae-Young;Park, Jong-Hyeon
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.927-932
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    • 2007
  • This paper proposes a robust back-stepping control with polynomial-type PD input for flexible joint robot manipulators to overcome parameter uncertainty. In the first step, a fictitious control is designed with polynomial-type PD input for the rigid link dynamic by the H-infinity control method. In second and third steps, the other fictitious control and real control are designed using saturation control and polynomial-type PD input based on the Lyapunov's second method. In each step, the designed robust inputs satisfy the L2-gain, which is equal to or less than gamma in the closed loop system. In contrast with the previous researches, the proposed method proves performance relations with PD gain from the robust gain. The performance robustness of the proposed control is verified through a 2-DOF robot manipulator with joint flexibility.

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Wide Viewing Angle Flexible Color Liquid Crystal Display

  • Liu, Kang-Hung;Lin, Yan-Rung;Chang, Ku-Hsien;Liao, Chi-Chang
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.07a
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    • pp.357-360
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    • 2005
  • A novel wide viewing angle flexible liquid crystal display will be demonstrated. The crossed matrix-type micro-cell structure was adopted in this design. The LC domains were divided into four different tilted directions by the combination effect of pixel fringe field and crossed matrix type micro-cell. It can create four domains without rubbing process and form the cell gap without spacer. For flexible color fabrication, a novel inkjet printing technology is adopted. This cost effective wide viewing angle color flexible LCD technology can be a good solution for high performance flexible LCD.

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The F/S Concept Design for Solid Motor Thrust Vector Control (고체모터 추력제어를 위한 F/S 개념 설계)

  • Kim, Byung-Hun;Kwon, Tae-Hoon;Cho, In-Hyun
    • Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.170-176
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    • 2008
  • The concept design of Flexible Seal for thrust vector control of solid motor was performed. Through the concept design, the optimum pivot point of flexible seal, cross-section configuration of flexible seal and thermal protection system from combustion gas was decided. The pivot point of flexible seal has aft pivot type and cross-section view is conical type. For satisfying a spring torque rate, the shear modulus of rubber has the value of under about 0.6MPa and failure shear stress has over about 2.5MPa.

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Design of Moving Coil Type Optical Pickup Actuator for Flexible Disk (유연디스크용 가동 코일형 광 픽업 엑추에이터 개발)

  • Kim, Yoon-Ki;Song, Myeong-Gyu;Lee, Dong-Ju;Park, No-Cheol;Park, Young-Pil
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.479-483
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    • 2006
  • As high-definition television(HDTV) broadcasting were generalized, there have been many researches and developments about large storage capacity and fast data transfer rate in optical disk drives(ODD). Pickup actuators must have high flexible mode frequencies and gain margins. Flexible modes are caused by the flexibility of moving parts in the actuator and a servo bandwidth is limited by them. As a result, the system becomes unstable for high-speed operations in high density reading and recording. In this paper, we suggest improved modeling method that considers the bonding layer. And, flexible mode frequency of actuator is improved by Design of Experiment of lens holder. Magnet circuit is designed considering the relation with moving part. Through improving yoke design, the magnetic flux is changed and DC tilt is reduced. Consequently, we designed actuator which has high flexible mode frequency and gain margins.

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Development of an Array-Type Flexible Tactile Sensor Using PVDF and Flexible Circuitry

  • Kwon, Tae-Kyu;Yu, Kee-Ho;Yun, Myung-Jong;Lee, Seong-Cheol
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.200-208
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    • 2002
  • This paper represents the development of an array-type flexible tactile sensor using PVDF(polyvinylidene fluoride) film and flexible circuitry. The tactile sensor which has $8{\times}8$ taxels is made by using PVDF film and FPC(flexible printed circuit) technique. Experimental results on static and dynamic properties are obtained by applying arbitrary forces and frequencies generated by the shaker. In the static characteristics, the threshold and the linearity of the sensor are investigated. Also dynamic response of the sensor subjected to the variable frequencies is examined. The signals of a contact force to the tactile sensor are sensed and processed in the DSP system in which the signals are digitalized and filtered. Finally, the signals are integrated for taking the force profile. The processed signals of the outputs of the sensor are visualized on a personal computer, the shape and force distribution of the contacted object are obtained using two and three-dimensional image in real time. The reasonable performance for the detection of contact state is verified through the experiment.

Design of Moving Coil Type Optical Pickup Actuator for Flexible Disk System (유연디스크용 가동 코일형 광 픽업 엑추에이터 개발)

  • Kim, Yoon-Ki;Song, Myeong-Gyu;Lee, Dong-Ju;Yoo, Jeong-Hoon;Park, No-Cheol;Park, Young-Pil
    • Transactions of the Society of Information Storage Systems
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.240-244
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    • 2006
  • As high-definition television(HDTV) broadcasting becoming more generalized, there have been many researches and developments about a large storage capacity and a fast data transfer rate in optical disk drives (ODD). Pickup actuators must have high flexible mode frequencies and large gain margins. Flexible modes are caused by the flexibility of moving parts in the actuator and a servo bandwidth is limited by them. As a result, the system becomes unstable for high-speed operations in high density reading and recording. In this paper, we suggest improved modeling method in considering of the bonding layer. And, the flexible mode frequency of actuator is improved by Design of Experiments of lens holder. The Magnet circuit is designed considering the relation with the moving part. Through improving the yoke design, the magnetic flux is changed and the DC tilt is reduced. Consequently, we designed an actuator which has a high flexible mode frequency and a large gain margins.

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