• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.104.1-104
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• 2002

$\textbullet$ Proper definition of manipulability ellipsoid $\textbullet$ Volume and directional measures of manipulability $\textbullet$ Kinematic modeling as a serial connection $\textbullet$ Configuration dependent singularity $\textbullet$ Effect of nonholonomy on manipulability $\textbullet$ Effect of end-effector positioning on manipulability $\textbullet$ Effect of serial cooperation on manipulability

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.446-453
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• 1999

An athlete motion during weightlifting is analyzed based on robotic manipulability, which shows dexterities by changing the position and orientation of the end-effector of robot manipulators arbitrary or along a specified direction. The athlete body is modeled as a highly redundant robot manipulator. The motion of weightlifting is analyzed based on the selected model with a power manipulability. Power manipulability and its geometric characteristics are derived by combining kinematic manipulability and dynamic manipulability. Also, manipulability-based optimal trajectory of weightlifter for given body structure of weightlifter derived through genetic algorithm.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.105-112
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• 1998

Regarding the measure of dexterity of robot manipulators, two geometric tools, manipulability ellipsoids and manipulability polytopes, are examined and compared with each other. Even though the manipulability ellipsoid approach is the most widely used technique, it is shown that the manipulability ellipsoid transforms the inexact joint velocity constraints into task space and so it may fail to give an exact measure of dexterity and optimal direction of motion in task space. After showing that the polytope approach can handle such problems, we propose a practical polytope method which can be applied to 3-dimensional task space in general. The relation between manipulability ellipsoids and manipulability polytopes are also explored for a redundant case and a non-redundant one.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.688-695
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• 2005

This paper describes dynamic manipulability analysis of robotic arms moving in viscous fluid. The manipulability is a functionality of manipulator system in a given configuration under the limits of joint ability with respect to the task required to be performed. To investigate the manipulability of underwater robotic arms, a modeling and analysis method is presented. The dynamic equation of motion of underwater manipulator is derived based on the Lagrange-Euler equation considering with the hydrodynamic forces caused by added mass, buoyancy and hydraulic drag. The hydrodynamic drag term in the equation is established as analytical form using Denavit-Hartenberg (D-H) link coordination of manipulator. Two analytical approaches based oil manipulability ellipsoid are presented to visualize the manipulability of robotic arm moving in viscous fluid. The one is scaled ellipsoid which transforms the boundary of joint torque to acceleration boundary of end-effector by normalizing the torques in joint space, while the other is shifted ellipsoid which depicts total acceleration boundary of end-effector by shifting the ellipsoid as much as gravity and velocity dependent forces in work space. An analysis example of 2-link manipulator with proposed analysis scheme is presented to validate the method.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1996.10b
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• pp.1136-1139
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• 1996

For on-line trajectory planning such as teleoperation it is desirable to keep good manipulability of the robot manipulators since the motion command is not given in advance. To keep good manipulability means the capability of moving any arbitrary directions of task space. An optimization process with different manipulability measures are performed and compared for a redundant robot system moving in 2-dimensional task space, and gives results that the conventional manipulability ellipsoid based on the Jacobian matrix is not good choice as far as the optimal direction of motion is concerned.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.28 no.7
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• pp.904-914
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• 2004

In this paper, input-output velocity and force transmission characteristics of the Casing Oscillator which is a construction machine with 4 degrees of freedom are examined. After the Jacobian matrix is decomposed into the linear part and angular part, the velocity and force transmission characteristics for the linear and angular workspace are easily analyzed and visualized even if the Casing Oscillator has the spatial dimensional workspace with 4 DOF. Regarding the manipulability measure of the Casing Oscillator, the kinematic isotropic index and the manipulability measure which represent the isotropy and volume of the manipulability ellipsoid, respectively, are combined to coincidently consider them with respect to equivalent ranges and fluctuations. A performance of the Casing Oscillator is evaluated by the newly proposed manipulability measures.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1994.10a
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• pp.901-906
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• 1994

In designing and evaluating manipulators, itis important to understand the capability of kinematic and static performances. Both workspace and manipulability can be considered as such performance measures. In general, the measure of manipulability is related to the kinematics for serial type manipulators. However.in case of parallel manipulators such as Stewart Platform, the manipulability can be interpreted as the static capability of transforming the input forces of actuators to the wrench of the end-effector. In this paper, the mathematical and physical meanings of manipulability suggested in some research works have been examined, and more meaningful measure of manipulability using the absolute minimum eigenvalues of J $^{T}$ .del. J has been suggested, which has been applied to a Stewart Platform in order to investigate the manipulability of this mechanism..

• Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.204-209
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• 2004

This paper describes dynamic manipulability analysis of robotic arms moving in viscous fluid. The Manipulability is a functionality of manipulator system in a given configuration and under the limits of joint ability with respect to the tasks required to bt performed. To investigate the manipulability of underwater robotic arms, a modeling and analysis method are presented. The dynamic equation of motion of underwater manipulator is derived from the Lagrange - Euler equation considering with the hydraulic forces caused by added mass, buoyancy and hydraulic drag. The hydraulic drag term in the equation: is established as analytical form using Denavit - Hartenberg (D-H) link coordination of manipulator. Two analytical approaches based on Manipulability Ellipsoid are presented to visualize the manipulability of robotic arm moving in viscous fluid. The one is scaled ellipsoid which transforms the boundary of joint torque to acceleration boundary of end-effector by normalizing the torque in joint space while the other is shifted ellipsoid which depicts total acceleration boundary of end-effector by shifting the ellipsoid in work space. An analysis example of 2-link manipulator with proposed analysis scheme is presented to validate the method.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07c
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• pp.2713-2716
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• 2003

This paper presents a dynamic manipulability analysis method of the limb moving in viscous fluid. The key idea of the presented method is that the boundary of joint velocity can be converted to the velocity-dependant dynamic manipulability polytope through the coriolis, centrifugal and drag terms in dynamic equation. The velocity-dependant dynamic manipulability polytope is added to the inertial and restoring force manipulability polytope to get overall manipulability polytope of the limb moving in the fluid Each of the torque and velocity bounds arc considered in the infinite norm sense in joint space, and the drag force of a limb moving in fluid viscous is modeled as a quadratic form An analysis example with proposed analysis scheme is presented to validate the method.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.249-256
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• 1999

The conventional robot manipulability is decomposed into linear manipulability and angular manipulability so that they may be analysed and visualized in easy way even in the case of 3 dimensional task space with 6 variables. After the Jacobian matrix is decomposed into linear part and angular part, constraint on joint velocities is transformed into linear task velocity and angular task velocity through the decomposed Jacobian matrices. Under the assumption of redundant robot manipulators, several optimization problems which utilize the redundancy are formulated to be solved by linear programming technique or sequential quadratic programming technique. After deriving the solutions of the optimization problems, we give graphical interpretations for the solutions.