Abstract: A novel family of deployable mechanisms (DMs) is presented. Unlike most such devices, which have one degreeoffreedom (DOF), the proposed DM can be deployed and compacted independently in two or three directions. This widens ...

Abstract: A redundant cable-driven platform (CDP) is composed of m cables that exceed the degree-of-freedom (DoF) of the end-effector. The choice of tension along the cables admits infinite solutions. This paper proposes the use of ...

Abstract: The paper (a first version of this work was presented in Aug. 2014 at ASMEDETC in Buffalo, NY) describes a novel robot gripper for garment handling. The device has been designed, developed, prototyped, and tested within ...

Abstract: The paper describes an innovative fixture created within the AUTORECON project of the European Commission's 7th Framework Program. The fixture is designed to respond to the automotive industry's needs of high modularity ...

Abstract: Among Bricard's overconstrained 6R linkages, the third type has two collapsed configurations, where all joint axes are coplanar. This paper presents a one-degree-of-freedom network of such linkages. Using the two coplanar ...

Abstract: Wind gusts are among the well-known disturbances that afflict aerial systems. A tracking task for a load suspended by massless rigid bars and quadrotors is considered in this paper. The complexity of the tracking task lies ...