Purpose The authors want to design an adaptive grasping control strategy without setting the expected contact force in … advance to maintain grasping stable, so that the proposed control system can deal with unknown object grasping manipulation … tasks. Design/methodology/approach The adaptive grasping control strategy is proposed based on bang-bang-like control …

) coincides with robot’s rotation centre. Then, a passive compliance training strategy based on admittance control is described in …

prevent wire slack and improve continuum robot payload capacity, as well as to present a new method to control continuum … device and proposes a mathematic formulation wire-tension based on robot design. Also, the wire-tension control method and … wires. Originality/value The novelty of this research is proposed pre-tension mechanism device design and control schematics …

and evaluates a new method for overcoming this issue. Design/methodology/approach A closed-loop robot control system for … seam-tracking control and force control, running and recording data in real-time operation, was developed. The complete …/implications In the experiments, the laser seam tracker was used both for control feedback and for performance evaluation. For …

the robot motion control algorithm resorting to a set-based task priority inverse kinematic strategy. The overall … architecture is realized by integrating control and perception software modules developed in the robots and systems environment … control architecture that allows us to command a complex robotic system to perform daily life operations. The user defines …

Purpose Trajectory tracking error of robotic manipulator has limited its applications in trajectory tracking control … can achieve better trajectory tracking accuracy than proportional-integral-differential control and linear active … disturbance rejection control. Originality/value In the LESO-based prescribed performance control (PPC), the LESO was incorporated …

Purpose This paper aims to present a shape sensing method and feedback control strategy based on fiber Bragg grating … (FBG) sensor to improve the control accuracy of the robot and ensure the safety of the cardiac interventional surgery … accuracy of the robot, a shape feedback control method is presented to control the catheter robot, which can control the robot …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a new vision-based control method, which enables delta-type parallel … reach the target. The proposed control strategy has been experimentally validated using a PARALLIX LKF-2040, an academic … found. Without vision-based control, the experimental platform used has a static positioning accuracy of 3.17 mm. Practical …

force control strategy of backstepping + proportion integration differentiation (PID) is proposed. The grinding end effector … carried out, and then the backstepping + PID method is adopted to control the grinding end effector to track the expected … new control strategy is proposed, which is not only used to control the grinding force of automobile wheels, but also …

optimization (AACO) technique for optimal path search with control over multiple mobile robots in static and dynamic unknown … methodologies. Significant improvements of about 10.21 per cent in path length are achieved along with better control over these …