Abstract: This article presents a piezo-actuated microgripper characterized by large amplification ratio and compact structure size. The microgripper is actuated by a piezo-stack actuator that is integrated with a two-stage displacement ...

Abstract: In this paper, the kinematics modeling of a notched continuum manipulator is presented, which includes the mechanicsbased forward kinematics and the curvefittingbased inverse kinematics. In order to establish the forward ...

Abstract: The split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) is one of the most widely used experimental techniques to study the behavior of materials at medium to high strain rates. This paper deals with the use of the SHPB to investigate the ...

Abstract: This paper presents the development of a six degrees-of-freedom manipulator with soft end-effector and an inverse kinematic compensator for aerial contact manipulation. Realizing the fact that aerial manipulators can hardly ...

Abstract: It has been confirmed that the passive obstacles would substantially depress the leading-edge cavitation in a waterjet pump. Combined with the experiments and numerical simulations, this work revisits blade cavitation ...

Abstract: This work develops a computationally efficient stability analysis method for the neutral delay differential systems. This method can be also conveniently applied for the optimal parameter tuning of related control systems. ...

Abstract: In this work, a time-optimal trajectory generation approach is developed for the multiple way-point navigation of the quadrotor based on the nonuniform rational B-spline (NURBS) curve and linear programming. To facilitate ...

Abstract: This paper presents an accurate and computationally efficient timedomain design method for the proportional–integral–derivative (PID) control of firstorder and secondorder plants in the presence of discrete time delays. ...