In recent years, modular and reconfigurable manufacturing systems have gained attention for their fast adaptability to product changes. While system design is now highly automated, …
Introduces the optimal design manifold for understanding and optimizing robotic system design, enabling selection of the most practical optimal design.
Unified formulation for simultaneous robot design and cell layout optimization, achieving up to eight times better solutions than separate optimization.
Novel domain adaptation approach for surface defect detection that handles partial data availability using modified triplet loss and two-stage training.
Presents a quasi time-optimal path tracking approach for pneumatic robots that accounts for third-order actuator dynamics.
Generalized approach to destructive disassembly planning that automatically derives destructive actions from symbolic and geometric models.
Novel optical tracking system with optimized camera placement for high-accuracy industrial robot tasks.
Proposes using a second robot to adjust workpiece position during manufacturing, forming a high-precision dual-robot system.
Due to a predisposition of DNA to generate symmetric anatomy, there are no tripedal animals in nature. Yet, threelegged walking might be the sweet spot between the energy …