Browsing by Author "Manubens Ferriol, Montserrat"

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    • 6-D manipulation with aerial towed-cable system 

      Manubens Ferriol, Montserrat; Devaurs, Didier; Cortés, Juan; Ros Giralt, Lluís (2013)
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      We propose a new approach for the reliable 6-dimensional quasi-static manipulation of an aerial towed-cable system. The novelty of this approach lies in the combination of results deriving from the static analysis of ...

    • A complete method for workspace boundary determination 

      Bohigas Nadal, Oriol; Ros Giralt, Lluís; Manubens Ferriol, Montserrat (Springer Verlag, 2010)
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    • A general method for the numerical computation of manipulator singularity sets 

      Bohigas Nadal, Oriol; Zlatanov, Dimiter; Ros Giralt, Lluís; Manubens Ferriol, Montserrat; Porta Pleite, Josep Maria (2014)
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      The analysis of singularities is central to the development and control of a manipulator. However, existing methods for singularity set computation still concentrate on specific classes of manipulators. The absence of ...

    • A linear relaxation method for computing workspace slices of the Stewart platform 

      Bohigas Nadal, Oriol; Manubens Ferriol, Montserrat; Ros Giralt, Lluís (ASME PRESS, 2013)
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      The workspace of a Stewart platform is a complex sixdimensional volume embedded in the Cartesian space defined by six pose parameters. Because of its large dimension and complex shape, this volume is difficult to compute ...

    • A motion planning approach to 6-D manipulation with aerial towed-cable systems 

      Manubens Ferriol, Montserrat; Devaurs, Didier; Ros Giralt, Lluís; Cortés, Juan (2013)
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      We propose a new approach for the reliable 6-dimensional quasi-static manipulation with aerial towed- cable systems. The novelty of this approach lies in the combination of results deriving from the static analysis of ...

    • 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 ...

    • An open-source toolbox for motion analysis of closed-chain mechanisms 

      Porta Pleite, Josep Maria; Ros Giralt, Lluís; Bohigas Nadal, Oriol; Manubens Ferriol, Montserrat; Rosales Gallegos, Carlos; Jaillet, Leonard Georges (Springer, 2013)
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      Many situations in Robotics require an effective analysis of the motions of a closed-chain mechanism. Despite appearing very often in practice (e.g. in parallel manipulators, reconfigurable robots, or molecular compounds), ...

    • Computing wrench-feasible paths for cable-driven hexapods 

      Bohigas, Oriol; Manubens Ferriol, Montserrat; Ros Giralt, Lluís (2015)
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      Motion paths of cable-driven hexapods must carefully be planned to ensure that the lengths and tensions of all cables remain within acceptable limits, for a given wrench applied to the platform. The cables cannot go slack ...

    • Cusp points in the parameter space of degenerate 3-RPR planar parallel manipulators 

      Manubens Ferriol, Montserrat; Moroz, Guillaume; Chablat, Damien; Wenger, Philippe; Rouillier, Fabrice (ASME PRESS, 2012)
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      This paper investigates the conditions in the design parameter space for the existence and distribution of the cusp locus for planar parallel manipulators. Cusp points make possible non-singular assembly-mode changing ...

    • Minimal canonical comprehensive Gröbner systems 

      Manubens Ferriol, Montserrat; Montes Lozano, Antonio (2009)
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      This is the continuation of Montes' paper "On the canonical discussion of polynomial systems with parameters''. In this paper, we define the Minimal Canonical Comprehensive Gröbner System of a parametric ideal and fix under ...

    • Motion planning for 6D manipulation with aerial towed-cable systems 

      Manubens Ferriol, Montserrat; Devaurs, Didier; Ros Giralt, Lluís; Cortés, Juan (2013)
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      Performing aerial 6-dimensional manipulation using flying robots is a challenging problem, to which only little work has been devoted. This paper proposes a motion planning approach for the reliable 6-dimensional quasi-static ...

    • Navigating the wrench-feasible C-space of cable-driven hexapods 

      Bohigas Nadal, Oriol; Manubens Ferriol, Montserrat; Ros Giralt, Lluís (Springer, 2012)
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      Motion paths of cable-driven hexapods must carefully be planned to ensure that the lengths and tensions of all cables remain within acceptable limits, for a given wrench applied to the platform. The cables cannot go slack ...

    • Numerical computation of manipulator singularities 

      Bohigas Nadal, Oriol; Zlatanov, Dimiter; Ros Giralt, Lluís; Manubens Ferriol, Montserrat; Porta Pleite, Josep Maria (IEEE, 2012)
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      This paper provides a method to compute all types of singularities of non-redundant manipulators with non-helical lower pairs and designated instantaneous input and output speeds. A system of equations describing each ...

    • On the numerical classification of the singularities of robot manipulators 

      Bohigas Nadal, Oriol; Zlatanov, Dimiter; Manubens Ferriol, Montserrat; Ros Giralt, Lluís (2013)
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      This paper is concerned with the task to obtain a complete description of the singularity set of any given non-redundant manipulator, including the identification and the precise computation of each constituent singularity ...

    • Planning singularity-free force-feasible paths on the Stewart platform 

      Bohigas Nadal, Oriol; Manubens Ferriol, Montserrat; Ros Giralt, Lluís (Springer, 2012)
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      This paper provides a method for computing force-feasible paths on the Stewart platform. Given two configurations of the platform, the method attempts to connect them through a path that, at any point, allows the platform ...

    • Planning singularity-free paths on closed-chain manipulators 

      Bohigas Nadal, Oriol; Henderson, Michael E.; Ros Giralt, Lluís; Manubens Ferriol, Montserrat; Porta Pleite, Josep Maria (2013)
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      This paper provides an algorithm for computing singularity-free paths on closed-chain manipulators. Given two non-singular configurations of the manipulator, the method attempts to connect them through a path that maintains ...

    • Planning wrench-feasible motions for cable-driven hexapods 

      Bohigas Nadal, Oriol; Manubens Ferriol, Montserrat; Ros Giralt, Lluís (2016-04-01)
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      Motion paths of cable-driven hexapods must carefully be planned to ensure that the lengths and tensions of all cables remain within acceptable limits, for a given wrench applied to the platform. The cables cannot go slack-to ...

    • Singularities of non-redundant manipulators: a short account and a method for their computation in the planar case 

      Bohigas Nadal, Oriol; Manubens Ferriol, Montserrat; Ros Giralt, Lluís (2013)
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      The study of the singularity set is of utmost utility in understanding the local and global behavior of a manipulator. After reviewing the mathematical conditions that characterize this set, and their kinematic and geometric ...

    • The CUIK suite: analyzing the motion closed-chain multibody systems 

      Porta Pleite, Josep Maria; Ros Giralt, Lluís; Bohigas Nadal, Oriol; Manubens Ferriol, Montserrat; Rosales Gallegos, Carlos; Jaillet, Leonard Georges (2014)
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      Many situations in robotics require the analysis of the motions of complex multibody systems. These are sets of articulated bodies arising in a variety of devices, including parallel manipulators, multifingered hands, or ...