• A one-motor full-mobility 6-PUS manipulator 

      Grosch Obregon, Patrick John; Gregorio, Raffaele di; Thomas, Federico (Springer, 2010)
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      This paper presents the feasibility study of an under-actuated parallel manipulator with 6-PUS topology, destined to handle work-tables in CNC machine tools. The proposed device exploits the fact that, in such an application, ...
    • A unified method for computing position and orientation workspaces of general Stewart platforms 

      Bohigas Nadal, Oriol; Ros, LLuís; Manubens Ferriol, Montserrat (2011)
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      The workspace of a Stewart platform is a complex six- dimensional volume embedded in the Cartesian space defined b y six pose parameters. Because of its large dimension and com- plex shape, such workspace is difficult ...
    • Active perception of deformable objects using 3D cameras 

      Alenyà Ribas, Guillem; Moreno-Noguer, Francesc; Ramisa Ayats, Arnau; Torras, Carme (Escuela Superior de Ingenieros de la Universidad de Sevilla, 2011)
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      Perception and manipulation of rigid objects has received a lot of attention, and several solutions have been proposed. In contrast, dealing with deformable objects is a relatively new and challenging task because they ...
    • Generation of under-actuated manipulators with non-holonomic joints from ordinary manipulators 

      Grosch Obregon, Patrick John; Gregorio, Raffaele di; Thomas, Federico (ASME PRESS, 2010)
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      This paper shows how to generate under-actuated manipulators by substituting nonholonomic spherical pairs (nS pairs) for (holonomic) spherical pairs (S pairs) in ordinary (i.e. not under-actuated) manipulators. As a case ...
    • Motion planning for a novel reconfigurable parallel manipulator with lockable revolute joints 

      Grosch Obregon, Patrick John; Gregorio, Raffaele di; López, Javier; Thomas, Federico (2010)
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      This paper introduces a class of reconfigurable parallel robots consisting of a fixed base and a moving platform connected by serial chains having RRPS (Revolute-Revolute-Prismatic-Spherical) topology. Only the prismatic ...
    • Redundant inverse kinematics: experimental comparative review and two enhancements 

      Colomé Figueras, Adrià; Torras, Carme (2012)
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      Motivated by the need of a robust and practical Inverse Kinematics (IK) algorithm for the WAM robot arm, we reviewed the most used closed-loop methods for redundant robots, analysing their main points of concern: convergence, ...