A General Dynamic Inequality of Opial Type

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 875-879
Author(s):  
Ravi Agarwal ◽  
Martin Bohner ◽  
Donal O’Regan ◽  
Mahmoud Osman ◽  
Samir Saker
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 1275-1288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianzhong Lin ◽  
Xiaojun Pan ◽  
Zhaoqin Yin ◽  
Xiaoke Ku

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 749-760 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi-Hao Wang ◽  
Hui Gao ◽  
Bu-qiao Fan ◽  
Zheng-Qing Chen

It has been theoretically predicted that superior supplemental damping can be generated for a taut cable with an inertial mass damper. This paper extends previous studies to investigate the effect of the cable sag on the efficiency of an inertial mass damper. The general dynamic characteristics of an inclined sag cable with an inertial mass damper installed close to the cable end are theoretically investigated. The parametric analysis of the inertial mass and the damping coefficient of the inertial mass damper are conducted to evaluate the control performance of the cable with different sags. The results show that the inertial mass damper can alleviate the negative effect induced by the cable sag, and the cable sag can even increase modal damping ratios provided by the inertial mass damper. Sags of stay cables used in actual bridges only affect nearly symmetric vibrations of cables, while having little impact on nearly antisymmetric vibrations. The effect of cable sags will reduce the optimal damping coefficient and inertial mass of the inertial mass damper for the first symmetric mode of the cable.


Author(s):  
Raymond Guo ◽  
Vienny Nguyen ◽  
Lei Niu ◽  
Lyndon Bridgwater

There has been continuous research and development to add more actuators into robotic hands to increase their dexterity. However, dexterous hands require complex control and are more costly to build. Therefore, many researchers and commercial enterprises have begun developing under-actuated robotic hands with fewer actuators and passive mechanical adaptation to not only reduce complexity and cost, but to also achieve better grasp performance in unstructured settings. This paper presents the design and analysis of the Valkyrie hand — a four fingered, tendon-driven, and under-actuated robotic hand that balances dexterity and simplicity with total 14 joints, and six degrees of actuated freedom. A derivation is provided of general dynamic and static equations for the analysis of a tendon driven mechanism, based on Euler-Lagrange formulation. The equations were used to evaluate the design parameters’ impact on the hand grasp shape and closing effort, and also validated against a design case study.


2004 ◽  
pp. 101-147
Author(s):  
Mario Paz ◽  
William Leigh

Author(s):  
Jian-Qing Zhang ◽  
Ting-Li Yang

Abstract This work presents a new method for kinetostatic analysis and dynamic analysis of complex planar mechanisms, i.e. the ordered single-opened-chains method. This method makes use of the ordered single-opened chains (in short, SOC,) along with the properties of SOC, and the network constraints relationship between SOC,. By this method, any planar complex mechanism can be automatically decomposed into a series of the ordered single-opened chains and the optimal structural decomposition route (s) can be automatically selected for dynamic analysis, the paper present the dynamic equation which can be used to solve both the kinetostatic problem and the general dynamic problem. The main advantage of the proposed approach is the possibility to reduce the number of equations to be solved simultaneously to the minimum, and its high automation as well. The other advantage is the simplification of the determination of the coefficients in the equations, and thus it maybe result in a much less time-consuming algorthem. The proposed approach is illustrated with three examples. The presented method can be easily extended to the dynamic analysis of spatial mechanisms.


2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 619-653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Idris ◽  
Martín Ugarte ◽  
Stijn Vansummeren ◽  
Hannes Voigt ◽  
Wolfgang Lehner

Author(s):  
Armin Mustafa ◽  
Marco Volino ◽  
Hansung Kim ◽  
Jean-Yves Guillemaut ◽  
Adrian Hilton

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (03) ◽  
pp. 1450020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Fasoulas ◽  
Michael Sfakiotakis

This paper presents a general dynamic model that describes the two-dimensional grasp by two robotic fingers with soft fingertips. We derive the system's kinematics and dynamics by incorporating rolling constraints that depend on the deformation and on the rolling distance characteristics of the fingertips' material. We analyze the grasp stability at equilibrium, and conclude that the rolling properties of the fingertips can play an important role in grasp stability, especially when the width of the grasped object is small compared to the radius of the tips. Subsequently, a controller, which is based on the fingertips' rolling properties, is proposed for stable grasping concurrent with object orientation control. We evaluate the dynamic model under the proposed control law by simulations and experiments that make use of two different types of soft fingertip materials, through which it is confirmed that the dynamic model can successfully capture the effect of the fingertips' deformation and their rolling distance characteristics. Finally, we use the dynamic model to demonstrate by simulations the significance of the fingertips' rolling properties in grasping thin objects.


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