We experimentally demonstrate a 16 × 16 reconfigurably nonblocking optical switch fabric using a Benes architecture. The switch fabric consists of 56 2 × 2 Mach–Zehnder interferometer based elementary switc...We experimentally demonstrate a 16 × 16 reconfigurably nonblocking optical switch fabric using a Benes architecture. The switch fabric consists of 56 2 × 2 Mach–Zehnder interferometer based elementary switches, with each integrated with a pair of waveguide microheaters. The average on-chip insertion loss is ~5.2 dB for both of the 'all-cross' and the 'all-bar' states, with a loss variation of 1 dB over all routing paths. The cross talk for all switching states is better than -30 d B. The switching time of the switch element is about 22 μs. The switching functionality is verified by transmission of a 40 Gb∕s quadrature phase-shift keying optical signal.展开更多
This paper presents a novel 1T2R three degrees of freedom redundantly actuated and overconstrained ■parallel machining head(■denotes the active prismatic joint), which can construct 5-axis hybrid machine to complete...This paper presents a novel 1T2R three degrees of freedom redundantly actuated and overconstrained ■parallel machining head(■denotes the active prismatic joint), which can construct 5-axis hybrid machine to complete high speed freedom surface milling for large complex structural components in aerospace. Firstly, based on the screw theory, the mobility of the proposed parallel manipulator is briefly analysed. Secondly, the kinematic inverse position and the parasitic motion of the parallel manipulator are explicitly expressed. Furthermore, motion-force transmission performance evaluation indices are derived in detail via an alternative approach based on the screw theory. More importantly, a simple method for quickly solving the maximum virtual power coefficient is proposed, and the motion-force transmission performance evaluation index is greatly improved. To evaluate the kinematic performance, its workspace is calculated. With numerical examples, performance distribution atlases of the manipulator are depicted visually. The corresponding results illustrate that the proposed parallel manipulator has better orientation workspace and superior motion-force transmission performance than the 2 PRU-PRS parallel manipulator, which proves the validity and applicability of applying this manipulator as a machining head.展开更多
This paper deals with the problem of position and attitude tracking control for a rigid spacecraft.A fully actuated system(FAS)model for the six degree-of-freedom(6DOF)spacecraft motion is derived first from the state...This paper deals with the problem of position and attitude tracking control for a rigid spacecraft.A fully actuated system(FAS)model for the six degree-of-freedom(6DOF)spacecraft motion is derived first from the state-space model by variable elimination.Considering the uncertainties from external disturbance,unknown motion information,and uncertain inertia properties,an extended state observer(ESO)is designed to estimate the total disturbance.Then,a tracking controller based on FAS approach is designed,and this makes the closed-loop system a constant linear one with an arbitrarily assignable eigenstructure.The solution to the parameter matrices of the observer and controller is given subsequently.It is proved via the Lyapunov stability theory that the observer errors and tracking errors both converge into the neighborhood of the origin.Finally,numerical simulation demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed controller.展开更多
This paper presents a redundantly actuated and over-constrained 2 RPU-2 SPR parallel manipulator with two rotational and one translational coupling degrees of freedom.The kinematics analysis is firstly carried out and...This paper presents a redundantly actuated and over-constrained 2 RPU-2 SPR parallel manipulator with two rotational and one translational coupling degrees of freedom.The kinematics analysis is firstly carried out and the mapping relationship of the velocity,acceleration and the independent parameters between the actuator joint and the moving platform are deduced by using the vector dot product and cross product operation.By employing d′Alembert′s principle and the principle of virtual work,the dynamics equilibrium equation is derived,and the simplified dynamics mathematical model of the parallel manipulator is further derived.Simultaneously,the generalized inertia matrix which can characterize the acceleration performance between joint space and operation space is further separated,and the performance indices including the dynamics dexterity,inertia coupling characteristics,energy transmission efficiency and driving force/torque balance are introduced.The analysis results show that the proposed redundantly actuated and over-constrained 2 RPU-2 SPR parallel manipulator in comparison with the existing non-redundant one has better dynamic comprehensive performance,which can be demonstrated practically by the successful application of the parallel kinematic machine head module of the hybrid machine tool.展开更多
The attitude of spherical liquid-filled spacecraft is controlled based on the high-order fully actuated system approaches.The rigid-fluid coupling dynamic equation can be established in terms of the Euler angles of th...The attitude of spherical liquid-filled spacecraft is controlled based on the high-order fully actuated system approaches.The rigid-fluid coupling dynamic equation can be established in terms of the Euler angles of the spacecraft and the angular velocities of the liquid fuel.According to the dynamic equation,three kinds of input selections are presented.In the case of one control input,the dynamic equation is transformed into the third-order or the second-order differential equations of the Euler angle by the high-order fully actuated system approaches.Then a control law is designed to track the target.The effectiveness of the control law is demonstrated by numerical simulations.展开更多
Redundantly actuated planar rotational parallel mechanisms（RAPRPMs） adapt to the requirements of robots under different working conditions by changing the antagonistic internal force to tune their stiffness.The geom...Redundantly actuated planar rotational parallel mechanisms（RAPRPMs） adapt to the requirements of robots under different working conditions by changing the antagonistic internal force to tune their stiffness.The geometrical parameters of the mechanism impact the performances of modulating stiffness.Analytical expressions relating stiffness and geometrical parameters of the mechanism were formulated to obtain the necessary conditions of variable stiffness.A novel method of variable stiffness design was presented to optimize the geometrical parameters of the mechanism.The stiffness variation with the internal force was maximized.The dynamic change of stiffness with the dynamic location of the mechanism was minimized,and the robustness of stiffness during the motion of the mechanism was ensured.This new approach to variable stiffness design can enable off-line planning of the internal force to avoid the difficulties of on-line control of the internal force.展开更多
We present a new analytical model for electrostatically actuated microbeams to explore the size effect by using the modified couple stress theory and the minimum total potential energy principle. A material length sca...We present a new analytical model for electrostatically actuated microbeams to explore the size effect by using the modified couple stress theory and the minimum total potential energy principle. A material length scale parameter is introduced to represent the size-dependent characteristics of microbeams. This model also accounts for the nonlinearities associated with the mid-plane stretching force and the electrostatical force. Numerical analysis for microbeams with clamped-clamped and cantilevered conditions has been performed. It is found that the intensity of size effect is closely associated with the thickness of the microbeam,and smaller beam thickness displays stronger size effect and hence yields smaller deffection and larger pull-in voltage. When the beam thickness is comparable to the material length scale parameter,the size effect is significant and the present theoretical model including the material length scale parameter is adequate for predicting the static behavior of microbeam-based MEMS.展开更多
This paper investigates the effect of cutter clearance angle on variation of depth of cut and cutting process with an actuated disc cutting(ADC).ADC is a cyclic cutting method with two main characteristics:(i)a disk-s...This paper investigates the effect of cutter clearance angle on variation of depth of cut and cutting process with an actuated disc cutting(ADC).ADC is a cyclic cutting method with two main characteristics:(i)a disk-shape cutter is used to attack the rock in an undercutting mechanism;and(ii)the cutter is dynamically actuated as it is moved across the rock.Hence,the cutting process of such system is periodic,each recurrence known as actuation cycle.The first ADC model,developed in 2016,represented an idealization of the technology with a flat disc cutter,where no clearance angle was considered.The evolution of the contact between the disc and the rock was,therefore,computed only on horizontal x-y plane,ignoring the effect of normal component of the force acting on cartridge.This article reports on a study that incorporates the cutter inclination angle in derivation of cutter/rock interface laws.It extends the proposed kinematic and geometry based model to take into account the variable depth of cut in estimating the forces associated with cutting in one actuation cycle.Experiments were conducted using Wobble to test the predictions of the improved model at various operating conditions.The model predictions are matched with the experimental results and effects of various factors are analysed.展开更多
This paper investigates the design of an attitude autopilot for a dual-channel controlled spinning glideguided projectile(SGGP),addressing model uncertainties and external disturbances.Based on fixed-time stable theor...This paper investigates the design of an attitude autopilot for a dual-channel controlled spinning glideguided projectile(SGGP),addressing model uncertainties and external disturbances.Based on fixed-time stable theory,a disturbance observer with integral sliding mode and adaptive techniques is proposed to mitigate total disturbance effects,irrespective of initial conditions.By introducing an error integral signal,the dynamics of the SGGP are transformed into two separate second-order fully actuated systems.Subsequently,employing the high-order fully actuated approach and a parametric approach,the nonlinear dynamics of the SGGP are recast into a constant linear closed-loop system,ensuring that the projectile's attitude asymptotically tracks the given goal with the desired eigenstructure.Under the proposed composite control framework,the ultimately uniformly bounded stability of the closed-loop system is rigorously demonstrated via the Lyapunov method.Validation of the effectiveness of the proposed attitude autopilot design is provided through extensive numerical simulations.展开更多
In this note,the well-known Brockett’s first example system is treated with the fully actuated system(FAS)approach.Firstly,it is shown that the system can be exponentially substabilized by a smooth controller in the ...In this note,the well-known Brockett’s first example system is treated with the fully actuated system(FAS)approach.Firstly,it is shown that the system can be exponentially substabilized by a smooth controller in the sense that,except those starting from initial values on the z0-axis of the initial value space,all trajectories of the designed system as well as the control signals decay to zero exponentially.Secondly,global stabilization is realized through a way of enabling the trajectories starting from initial values on the z0-axis also to go to the origin.The idea is to firstly move an initial point on the z0-axis away from the axis using a pre-controller,and then to take over by the designed exponentially sub-stabilizing controller.展开更多
In this paper,several equivalent forms of the well-known Brockett's second example system are firstly presented.The stabilization of the system is then treated in the fully actuated system approach.A simple contin...In this paper,several equivalent forms of the well-known Brockett's second example system are firstly presented.The stabilization of the system is then treated in the fully actuated system approach.A simple continuous time-invariant sub-stabilizing controller is designed,and the corresponding region of attraction is characterized.As a result,all trajectories of the system starting from the characterized region of attraction are driven exponentially to the origin.Since the region of attraction is very large,the designed sub-stabilizing controller can be directly useful in many practical situations.In cases where the initial values are indeed needed to be chosen out of the region of attraction,extremely simple pre-controllers can be designed,which drive the system trajectories into the designed region of attraction.A simulation of the designed control system is carried out to show the effect of the proposed approach.展开更多
Estimation of the lateral stability region and torque distribution on steering is very important to improve stability in lateral handling for all wheel drive electric vehicles.Based on the built-nonlinear vehicle dyna...Estimation of the lateral stability region and torque distribution on steering is very important to improve stability in lateral handling for all wheel drive electric vehicles.Based on the built-nonlinear vehicle dynamic model,the lateral stability region of the vehicle related to steering is estimated using Lyapunov function.We obtained stable equilibrium points of non-straight driving according to the estimated lateral stability region and also reconstructed the Lyapunov function matrix,which proved that the closed-loop system composed of yaw rate and lateral velocity is satisfied with negative definite property.In addition,the designed controller dynamically allocates the drive torque in terms of the vertical load and slip rate of the four wheels.The simulation results show that the estimated lateral stability region and the designed controller are satisfactory in handling stability performance against different roads and vehicle parameters.展开更多
The current type synthesis of the redundant actuated parallel mechanisms is adding active-actuated kinematic branches on the basis of the traditional parallel mechanisms,or using screw theory to perform multiple getti...The current type synthesis of the redundant actuated parallel mechanisms is adding active-actuated kinematic branches on the basis of the traditional parallel mechanisms,or using screw theory to perform multiple getting intersection and union to complete type synthesis.The number of redundant parallel mechanisms obtained by these two methods is limited.In this paper,based on Grassmann line geometry and Atlas method,a novel and effective method for type synthesis of redundant actuated parallel mechanisms(PMs)with closed-loop units is proposed.Firstly,the degree of freedom(DOF)and constraint line graph of the moving platform are determined successively,and redundant lines are added in constraint line graph to obtain the redundant constraint line graph and their equivalent line graph,and a branch constraint allocation scheme is formulated based on the allocation criteria.Secondly,a scheme is selected and redundant lines are added in the branch chains DOF graph to construct the redundant actuated branch chains with closed-loop units.Finally,the branch chains that meet the requirements of branch chains configuration criteria and F&C(degree of freedom&constraint)line graph are assembled.In this paper,two types of 2 rotational and 1 translational(2R1T)redundant actuated parallel mechanisms and one type of 2 translational and 1 rotational(2T1R)redundant actuated parallel mechanisms with few branches and closed-loop units were taken as examples,and 238,92 and 15 new configurations were synthesized.All the mechanisms contain closed-loop units,and the mechanisms and the actuators both have good symmetry.Therefore,all the mechanisms have excellent comprehensive performance,in which the two rotational DOFs of the moving platform of 2R1T redundant actuated parallel mechanism can be independently controlled.The instantaneous analysis shows that all mechanisms are not instantaneous,which proves the feasibility and practicability of the method.展开更多
High-speed running is one of the most important topics in the field of legged robots which requires strict constraints on structural design and control. To solve the problems of high acceleration, high energy consumpt...High-speed running is one of the most important topics in the field of legged robots which requires strict constraints on structural design and control. To solve the problems of high acceleration, high energy consumption, high pace frequency and ground impact during high-speed movement, this paper presents a parallel actuated pantograph leg with an approximately decoupled configuration. The articulated leg features in light weight, high load capacity, high mechanical efficiency and structural stability. The similarity features of force and position between the control point and the foot are analyzed. The key design parameters, K1 and K2, which concern the dynamic performances, are carefully optimized by comprehensive evaluation of the leg inertia and mass within the maximum foot trajectory, A control strategy that incorporates virtual Spring Loaded Inverted Pendulum （SLIP） model and active force is also proposed to test the design. The strategy can implement highly flexible impedance without mechanical springs, which substantially simplifies the design and satisfies the variable stiffness requirements during high-speed running. The rationality of the structure and the effectiveness of the control law are validated by simulation and experiments.展开更多
The force analysis of overconstrained PMs is relatively complex and difficult, for which the methods have always been a research hotspot. However, few liter- atures analyze the characteristics and application scopes o...The force analysis of overconstrained PMs is relatively complex and difficult, for which the methods have always been a research hotspot. However, few liter- atures analyze the characteristics and application scopes of the various methods, which is not convenient for researchers and engineers to master and adopt them prop- erly. A review of the methods for force analysis of both passive and active overconstrained PMs is presented. The existing force analysis methods for these two kinds of overconstrained PMs are classified according to their main ideas. Each category is briefly demonstrated and evaluated from such aspects as the calculation amount, the compre- hensiveness of considering limbs＇ deformation, and the existence of explicit expressions of the solutions, which provides an important reference for researchers and engi- neers to quickly find a suitable method. The similarities and differences between the statically indeterminate prob- lem of passive overconstrained PMs and that of active overconstrained PMs are discussed, and a universal method for these two kinds of overconstrained PMs is pointed out. The existing deficiencies and development directions of the force analysis methods for overconstrained systems are indicated based on the overview.展开更多
This paper focuses on the trajectory tracking control problem of unmanned underwater vehicles(UUVs)with unknown dead-zone inputs.The primary objective is to design an adaptive trajectory tracking error constraint cont...This paper focuses on the trajectory tracking control problem of unmanned underwater vehicles(UUVs)with unknown dead-zone inputs.The primary objective is to design an adaptive trajectory tracking error constraint controller using the fully actuated systems(FAs)approach to enable UUVs to asymptotically track target signals.Firstly,a novel error constraint fully actuated systems(ECFAs)approach is proposed by incorporating the tracking error dependent normalized function and barrier function along with time-varying scaling.Secondly,in order to deal with the model uncertainties of the UUVs,adaptive radial basis function neural networks(RBFNNs)is combined with the ECFAs approach.Then,a positive time-varying integral function is introduced to completely eliminate the effect of the residual effect caused by unknown dead-zone inputs,and it is proved that the trajectory tracking error converges to zero asymptotically based on the Lyapunov functions.Finally,the simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the designed adaptive controller.展开更多
In this paper,the prescribed error trajectory control is proposed for second-order fully actuated systems.At first,by taking advantage of the full-actuation property,an intermediate control law is designed such that t...In this paper,the prescribed error trajectory control is proposed for second-order fully actuated systems.At first,by taking advantage of the full-actuation property,an intermediate control law is designed such that the intermediate closed-loop system is in a very simple form.Then,by utilizing the initial conditions of system states and the prescribed error performance function,the intermediate control law is developed to force the tracking error of the system on the proposed sliding mode surface from the beginning.The overall control law is obtained by combining the aforementioned steps.It is revealed that under the designed control law,the tracking error of the closed-loop system converges to zero along the prescribed error trajectory.Finally,an example is provided to validate the effectiveness of the presented approach.展开更多
DC-DC converter-based multi-bus DC microgrids(MGs) in series have received much attention, where the conflict between voltage recovery and current balancing has been a hot topic. The lack of models that accurately por...DC-DC converter-based multi-bus DC microgrids(MGs) in series have received much attention, where the conflict between voltage recovery and current balancing has been a hot topic. The lack of models that accurately portray the electrical characteristics of actual MGs while is controller design-friendly has kept the issue active. To this end, this paper establishes a large-signal model containing the comprehensive dynamical behavior of the DC MGs based on the theory of high-order fully actuated systems, and proposes distributed optimal control based on this. The proposed secondary control method can achieve the two goals of voltage recovery and current sharing for multi-bus DC MGs. Additionally, the simple structure of the proposed approach is similar to one based on droop control, which allows this control technique to be easily implemented in a variety of modern microgrids with different configurations. In contrast to existing studies, the process of controller design in this paper is closely tied to the actual dynamics of the MGs. It is a prominent feature that enables engineers to customize the performance metrics of the system. In addition, the analysis of the stability of the closed-loop DC microgrid system, as well as the optimality and consensus of current sharing are given. Finally, a scaled-down solar and battery-based microgrid prototype with maximum power point tracking controller is developed in the laboratory to experimentally test the efficacy of the proposed control method.展开更多
The development of the magnetic manipulating system is essential for applications of magnetically actuated miniature robots in biomedical practice,such as targeted therapy and precise surgery.However,the workspaces of...The development of the magnetic manipulating system is essential for applications of magnetically actuated miniature robots in biomedical practice,such as targeted therapy and precise surgery.However,the workspaces of existing magnetic manipulating systems for miniature robots are mostly insufficient to manipulate miniature robots inside human bodies.The present study proposes an innovative electromagnets-based manipulating system,TrinityMag,which can produce dynamic three-dimensional(3D)magnetic fields in a human-scale spherical workspace with a 2.6 m diameter.The magnetic field of a single electromagnet is simulated,and a new calibration technic is designed based on deep learning networks.Then,the arrangement of three electromagnets is optimized to produce maximal 3D arbitrary magnetic fields with limited currents.Moreover,a target-tracking algorithm is developed so that the TrinityMag can track the miniature robot in real time.Finally,the TrinityMag is validated in experiments to manipulate a soft millirobot to move in human-scale tortuous tracks with two types of locomotions.The maximum speed of the soft millirobot reaches 11.05 body length/s.Our work contributes to a significant increment in the workspace of the electromagnets-based manipulating system for miniature robots.We further expect that the TrinityMag could push the applications of miniature robots from laboratory to clinical practice.展开更多
This paper focuses on the problem of adaptive control for a class of time-delay systems.First,the strict feedback nonlinear time-delay system is transformed into a fully actuated system by utilizing the fully actuated...This paper focuses on the problem of adaptive control for a class of time-delay systems.First,the strict feedback nonlinear time-delay system is transformed into a fully actuated system by utilizing the fully actuated system theory.Then,the uncertain time-delay terms of the system are bounded by the product of the absolute value of the system state and the non-linear function with the unknown parameters.By following the high order fully actuated system approaches,a continuous adaptive controller is designed for the system.It is proved that the controller can render the system achieve asymptotically stability.Finally,two numerical examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.展开更多
基金863 Program(2013AA01442)National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(61422508,61535006)Shanghai Rising-Star Program(14QA1402600)
文摘We experimentally demonstrate a 16 × 16 reconfigurably nonblocking optical switch fabric using a Benes architecture. The switch fabric consists of 56 2 × 2 Mach–Zehnder interferometer based elementary switches, with each integrated with a pair of waveguide microheaters. The average on-chip insertion loss is ~5.2 dB for both of the 'all-cross' and the 'all-bar' states, with a loss variation of 1 dB over all routing paths. The cross talk for all switching states is better than -30 d B. The switching time of the switch element is about 22 μs. The switching functionality is verified by transmission of a 40 Gb∕s quadrature phase-shift keying optical signal.
基金supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Nos. 2018JBZ007, 2018YJS136 and 2017YJS158)China Scholarship Council (CSC) (No. 201807090079)National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (No. 51675037)
文摘This paper presents a novel 1T2R three degrees of freedom redundantly actuated and overconstrained ■parallel machining head(■denotes the active prismatic joint), which can construct 5-axis hybrid machine to complete high speed freedom surface milling for large complex structural components in aerospace. Firstly, based on the screw theory, the mobility of the proposed parallel manipulator is briefly analysed. Secondly, the kinematic inverse position and the parasitic motion of the parallel manipulator are explicitly expressed. Furthermore, motion-force transmission performance evaluation indices are derived in detail via an alternative approach based on the screw theory. More importantly, a simple method for quickly solving the maximum virtual power coefficient is proposed, and the motion-force transmission performance evaluation index is greatly improved. To evaluate the kinematic performance, its workspace is calculated. With numerical examples, performance distribution atlases of the manipulator are depicted visually. The corresponding results illustrate that the proposed parallel manipulator has better orientation workspace and superior motion-force transmission performance than the 2 PRU-PRS parallel manipulator, which proves the validity and applicability of applying this manipulator as a machining head.
基金This research was partially supported by the Science Center Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.62188101the Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.61690210 and 61690212the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.62103164 and 61703437.
文摘This paper deals with the problem of position and attitude tracking control for a rigid spacecraft.A fully actuated system(FAS)model for the six degree-of-freedom(6DOF)spacecraft motion is derived first from the state-space model by variable elimination.Considering the uncertainties from external disturbance,unknown motion information,and uncertain inertia properties,an extended state observer(ESO)is designed to estimate the total disturbance.Then,a tracking controller based on FAS approach is designed,and this makes the closed-loop system a constant linear one with an arbitrarily assignable eigenstructure.The solution to the parameter matrices of the observer and controller is given subsequently.It is proved via the Lyapunov stability theory that the observer errors and tracking errors both converge into the neighborhood of the origin.Finally,numerical simulation demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed controller.
基金supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Nos. 2018JBZ007, 2018YJS136 and 2017YJS158)China Scholarship Council (CSC) (No. 201807090079)National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51675037)
文摘This paper presents a redundantly actuated and over-constrained 2 RPU-2 SPR parallel manipulator with two rotational and one translational coupling degrees of freedom.The kinematics analysis is firstly carried out and the mapping relationship of the velocity,acceleration and the independent parameters between the actuator joint and the moving platform are deduced by using the vector dot product and cross product operation.By employing d′Alembert′s principle and the principle of virtual work,the dynamics equilibrium equation is derived,and the simplified dynamics mathematical model of the parallel manipulator is further derived.Simultaneously,the generalized inertia matrix which can characterize the acceleration performance between joint space and operation space is further separated,and the performance indices including the dynamics dexterity,inertia coupling characteristics,energy transmission efficiency and driving force/torque balance are introduced.The analysis results show that the proposed redundantly actuated and over-constrained 2 RPU-2 SPR parallel manipulator in comparison with the existing non-redundant one has better dynamic comprehensive performance,which can be demonstrated practically by the successful application of the parallel kinematic machine head module of the hybrid machine tool.
基金This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.62188101 and 12132002.
文摘The attitude of spherical liquid-filled spacecraft is controlled based on the high-order fully actuated system approaches.The rigid-fluid coupling dynamic equation can be established in terms of the Euler angles of the spacecraft and the angular velocities of the liquid fuel.According to the dynamic equation,three kinds of input selections are presented.In the case of one control input,the dynamic equation is transformed into the third-order or the second-order differential equations of the Euler angle by the high-order fully actuated system approaches.Then a control law is designed to track the target.The effectiveness of the control law is demonstrated by numerical simulations.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51275127)
文摘Redundantly actuated planar rotational parallel mechanisms（RAPRPMs） adapt to the requirements of robots under different working conditions by changing the antagonistic internal force to tune their stiffness.The geometrical parameters of the mechanism impact the performances of modulating stiffness.Analytical expressions relating stiffness and geometrical parameters of the mechanism were formulated to obtain the necessary conditions of variable stiffness.A novel method of variable stiffness design was presented to optimize the geometrical parameters of the mechanism.The stiffness variation with the internal force was maximized.The dynamic change of stiffness with the dynamic location of the mechanism was minimized,and the robustness of stiffness during the motion of the mechanism was ensured.This new approach to variable stiffness design can enable off-line planning of the internal force to avoid the difficulties of on-line control of the internal force.
文摘We present a new analytical model for electrostatically actuated microbeams to explore the size effect by using the modified couple stress theory and the minimum total potential energy principle. A material length scale parameter is introduced to represent the size-dependent characteristics of microbeams. This model also accounts for the nonlinearities associated with the mid-plane stretching force and the electrostatical force. Numerical analysis for microbeams with clamped-clamped and cantilevered conditions has been performed. It is found that the intensity of size effect is closely associated with the thickness of the microbeam,and smaller beam thickness displays stronger size effect and hence yields smaller deffection and larger pull-in voltage. When the beam thickness is comparable to the material length scale parameter,the size effect is significant and the present theoretical model including the material length scale parameter is adequate for predicting the static behavior of microbeam-based MEMS.
基金Minerals Research Institute of Western Australia, Mining3 and CSIRO for funding this work
文摘This paper investigates the effect of cutter clearance angle on variation of depth of cut and cutting process with an actuated disc cutting(ADC).ADC is a cyclic cutting method with two main characteristics:(i)a disk-shape cutter is used to attack the rock in an undercutting mechanism;and(ii)the cutter is dynamically actuated as it is moved across the rock.Hence,the cutting process of such system is periodic,each recurrence known as actuation cycle.The first ADC model,developed in 2016,represented an idealization of the technology with a flat disc cutter,where no clearance angle was considered.The evolution of the contact between the disc and the rock was,therefore,computed only on horizontal x-y plane,ignoring the effect of normal component of the force acting on cartridge.This article reports on a study that incorporates the cutter inclination angle in derivation of cutter/rock interface laws.It extends the proposed kinematic and geometry based model to take into account the variable depth of cut in estimating the forces associated with cutting in one actuation cycle.Experiments were conducted using Wobble to test the predictions of the improved model at various operating conditions.The model predictions are matched with the experimental results and effects of various factors are analysed.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.52272358 and 62103052)。
文摘This paper investigates the design of an attitude autopilot for a dual-channel controlled spinning glideguided projectile(SGGP),addressing model uncertainties and external disturbances.Based on fixed-time stable theory,a disturbance observer with integral sliding mode and adaptive techniques is proposed to mitigate total disturbance effects,irrespective of initial conditions.By introducing an error integral signal,the dynamics of the SGGP are transformed into two separate second-order fully actuated systems.Subsequently,employing the high-order fully actuated approach and a parametric approach,the nonlinear dynamics of the SGGP are recast into a constant linear closed-loop system,ensuring that the projectile's attitude asymptotically tracks the given goal with the desired eigenstructure.Under the proposed composite control framework,the ultimately uniformly bounded stability of the closed-loop system is rigorously demonstrated via the Lyapunov method.Validation of the effectiveness of the proposed attitude autopilot design is provided through extensive numerical simulations.
基金This paper has been partially supported by the Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.61690210,61690212National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.61333003also by the Science Center Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.62188101.
文摘In this note,the well-known Brockett’s first example system is treated with the fully actuated system(FAS)approach.Firstly,it is shown that the system can be exponentially substabilized by a smooth controller in the sense that,except those starting from initial values on the z0-axis of the initial value space,all trajectories of the designed system as well as the control signals decay to zero exponentially.Secondly,global stabilization is realized through a way of enabling the trajectories starting from initial values on the z0-axis also to go to the origin.The idea is to firstly move an initial point on the z0-axis away from the axis using a pre-controller,and then to take over by the designed exponentially sub-stabilizing controller.
基金partially supported by Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Control Theory and Intelligent Systems under Grant No.ZDSYS20220330161800001the Science Center Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.62188101the Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.61690210 and 61690212。
文摘In this paper,several equivalent forms of the well-known Brockett's second example system are firstly presented.The stabilization of the system is then treated in the fully actuated system approach.A simple continuous time-invariant sub-stabilizing controller is designed,and the corresponding region of attraction is characterized.As a result,all trajectories of the system starting from the characterized region of attraction are driven exponentially to the origin.Since the region of attraction is very large,the designed sub-stabilizing controller can be directly useful in many practical situations.In cases where the initial values are indeed needed to be chosen out of the region of attraction,extremely simple pre-controllers can be designed,which drive the system trajectories into the designed region of attraction.A simulation of the designed control system is carried out to show the effect of the proposed approach.
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51105074)The Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Automotive Safety and Energy,Tsinghua University(Grant No.KF14192)The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities and Jiangsu Province Postgraduate Scientific Research and Innovation Plan Projects(Grant No.KYLX_0103)
文摘Estimation of the lateral stability region and torque distribution on steering is very important to improve stability in lateral handling for all wheel drive electric vehicles.Based on the built-nonlinear vehicle dynamic model,the lateral stability region of the vehicle related to steering is estimated using Lyapunov function.We obtained stable equilibrium points of non-straight driving according to the estimated lateral stability region and also reconstructed the Lyapunov function matrix,which proved that the closed-loop system composed of yaw rate and lateral velocity is satisfied with negative definite property.In addition,the designed controller dynamically allocates the drive torque in terms of the vertical load and slip rate of the four wheels.The simulation results show that the estimated lateral stability region and the designed controller are satisfactory in handling stability performance against different roads and vehicle parameters.
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51875499).
文摘The current type synthesis of the redundant actuated parallel mechanisms is adding active-actuated kinematic branches on the basis of the traditional parallel mechanisms,or using screw theory to perform multiple getting intersection and union to complete type synthesis.The number of redundant parallel mechanisms obtained by these two methods is limited.In this paper,based on Grassmann line geometry and Atlas method,a novel and effective method for type synthesis of redundant actuated parallel mechanisms(PMs)with closed-loop units is proposed.Firstly,the degree of freedom(DOF)and constraint line graph of the moving platform are determined successively,and redundant lines are added in constraint line graph to obtain the redundant constraint line graph and their equivalent line graph,and a branch constraint allocation scheme is formulated based on the allocation criteria.Secondly,a scheme is selected and redundant lines are added in the branch chains DOF graph to construct the redundant actuated branch chains with closed-loop units.Finally,the branch chains that meet the requirements of branch chains configuration criteria and F&C(degree of freedom&constraint)line graph are assembled.In this paper,two types of 2 rotational and 1 translational(2R1T)redundant actuated parallel mechanisms and one type of 2 translational and 1 rotational(2T1R)redundant actuated parallel mechanisms with few branches and closed-loop units were taken as examples,and 238,92 and 15 new configurations were synthesized.All the mechanisms contain closed-loop units,and the mechanisms and the actuators both have good symmetry.Therefore,all the mechanisms have excellent comprehensive performance,in which the two rotational DOFs of the moving platform of 2R1T redundant actuated parallel mechanism can be independently controlled.The instantaneous analysis shows that all mechanisms are not instantaneous,which proves the feasibility and practicability of the method.
基金This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Grant Nos. 61375097 and 61473105）, the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province, China （Grant No. F2015008） and Self-Planned Task （No. SKLRS201620B, SKLRS201603C and SKLRS201502C） of State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System （HIT）.
文摘High-speed running is one of the most important topics in the field of legged robots which requires strict constraints on structural design and control. To solve the problems of high acceleration, high energy consumption, high pace frequency and ground impact during high-speed movement, this paper presents a parallel actuated pantograph leg with an approximately decoupled configuration. The articulated leg features in light weight, high load capacity, high mechanical efficiency and structural stability. The similarity features of force and position between the control point and the foot are analyzed. The key design parameters, K1 and K2, which concern the dynamic performances, are carefully optimized by comprehensive evaluation of the leg inertia and mass within the maximum foot trajectory, A control strategy that incorporates virtual Spring Loaded Inverted Pendulum （SLIP） model and active force is also proposed to test the design. The strategy can implement highly flexible impedance without mechanical springs, which substantially simplifies the design and satisfies the variable stiffness requirements during high-speed running. The rationality of the structure and the effectiveness of the control law are validated by simulation and experiments.
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51675458,51275439)Youth Top Talent Project of Hebei Province Higher Education of China(Grant No.BJ2017060)
文摘The force analysis of overconstrained PMs is relatively complex and difficult, for which the methods have always been a research hotspot. However, few liter- atures analyze the characteristics and application scopes of the various methods, which is not convenient for researchers and engineers to master and adopt them prop- erly. A review of the methods for force analysis of both passive and active overconstrained PMs is presented. The existing force analysis methods for these two kinds of overconstrained PMs are classified according to their main ideas. Each category is briefly demonstrated and evaluated from such aspects as the calculation amount, the compre- hensiveness of considering limbs＇ deformation, and the existence of explicit expressions of the solutions, which provides an important reference for researchers and engi- neers to quickly find a suitable method. The similarities and differences between the statically indeterminate prob- lem of passive overconstrained PMs and that of active overconstrained PMs are discussed, and a universal method for these two kinds of overconstrained PMs is pointed out. The existing deficiencies and development directions of the force analysis methods for overconstrained systems are indicated based on the overview.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.62273297,62103353,61825304,and 6182500417in part by the Innovative Research Groups of the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province under Grant No.E2020203174+2 种基金in part by Hebei Innovation Capability Improvement Plan Project under Grant No.22567619Hin part by Youth Top Talent Project of Hebei Province under Grant No.HY2024050021in part by Post-graduate Innovation Fund Project of Hebei Province under Grant No.CXZZSS2023042。
文摘This paper focuses on the trajectory tracking control problem of unmanned underwater vehicles(UUVs)with unknown dead-zone inputs.The primary objective is to design an adaptive trajectory tracking error constraint controller using the fully actuated systems(FAs)approach to enable UUVs to asymptotically track target signals.Firstly,a novel error constraint fully actuated systems(ECFAs)approach is proposed by incorporating the tracking error dependent normalized function and barrier function along with time-varying scaling.Secondly,in order to deal with the model uncertainties of the UUVs,adaptive radial basis function neural networks(RBFNNs)is combined with the ECFAs approach.Then,a positive time-varying integral function is introduced to completely eliminate the effect of the residual effect caused by unknown dead-zone inputs,and it is proved that the trajectory tracking error converges to zero asymptotically based on the Lyapunov functions.Finally,the simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the designed adaptive controller.
基金This paper was supported by the Science Center Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.62188101the Joint Funds of the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.U2013203.
文摘In this paper,the prescribed error trajectory control is proposed for second-order fully actuated systems.At first,by taking advantage of the full-actuation property,an intermediate control law is designed such that the intermediate closed-loop system is in a very simple form.Then,by utilizing the initial conditions of system states and the prescribed error performance function,the intermediate control law is developed to force the tracking error of the system on the proposed sliding mode surface from the beginning.The overall control law is obtained by combining the aforementioned steps.It is revealed that under the designed control law,the tracking error of the closed-loop system converges to zero along the prescribed error trajectory.Finally,an example is provided to validate the effectiveness of the presented approach.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62173255, 62188101)Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Control Theory and Intelligent Systems,(ZDSYS20220330161800001)。
文摘DC-DC converter-based multi-bus DC microgrids(MGs) in series have received much attention, where the conflict between voltage recovery and current balancing has been a hot topic. The lack of models that accurately portray the electrical characteristics of actual MGs while is controller design-friendly has kept the issue active. To this end, this paper establishes a large-signal model containing the comprehensive dynamical behavior of the DC MGs based on the theory of high-order fully actuated systems, and proposes distributed optimal control based on this. The proposed secondary control method can achieve the two goals of voltage recovery and current sharing for multi-bus DC MGs. Additionally, the simple structure of the proposed approach is similar to one based on droop control, which allows this control technique to be easily implemented in a variety of modern microgrids with different configurations. In contrast to existing studies, the process of controller design in this paper is closely tied to the actual dynamics of the MGs. It is a prominent feature that enables engineers to customize the performance metrics of the system. In addition, the analysis of the stability of the closed-loop DC microgrid system, as well as the optimality and consensus of current sharing are given. Finally, a scaled-down solar and battery-based microgrid prototype with maximum power point tracking controller is developed in the laboratory to experimentally test the efficacy of the proposed control method.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2023YFB4705300)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.U22A2064)+2 种基金Shenzhen Science and Technology Program(Grant Nos.JCYJ20220818101611025,RCJC20231-211085926038)the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(Grant No.2022B1515120010)the SIAT-CUHK Joint Laboratory of Robotics and Intelligent Systems。
文摘The development of the magnetic manipulating system is essential for applications of magnetically actuated miniature robots in biomedical practice,such as targeted therapy and precise surgery.However,the workspaces of existing magnetic manipulating systems for miniature robots are mostly insufficient to manipulate miniature robots inside human bodies.The present study proposes an innovative electromagnets-based manipulating system,TrinityMag,which can produce dynamic three-dimensional(3D)magnetic fields in a human-scale spherical workspace with a 2.6 m diameter.The magnetic field of a single electromagnet is simulated,and a new calibration technic is designed based on deep learning networks.Then,the arrangement of three electromagnets is optimized to produce maximal 3D arbitrary magnetic fields with limited currents.Moreover,a target-tracking algorithm is developed so that the TrinityMag can track the miniature robot in real time.Finally,the TrinityMag is validated in experiments to manipulate a soft millirobot to move in human-scale tortuous tracks with two types of locomotions.The maximum speed of the soft millirobot reaches 11.05 body length/s.Our work contributes to a significant increment in the workspace of the electromagnets-based manipulating system for miniature robots.We further expect that the TrinityMag could push the applications of miniature robots from laboratory to clinical practice.
基金This research was supported by the Science Center Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.62188101in part by the National Key R&D Program of China under Grant No.2018YFB1308300the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.U20A20187,61825304.
文摘This paper focuses on the problem of adaptive control for a class of time-delay systems.First,the strict feedback nonlinear time-delay system is transformed into a fully actuated system by utilizing the fully actuated system theory.Then,the uncertain time-delay terms of the system are bounded by the product of the absolute value of the system state and the non-linear function with the unknown parameters.By following the high order fully actuated system approaches,a continuous adaptive controller is designed for the system.It is proved that the controller can render the system achieve asymptotically stability.Finally,two numerical examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.
