ASME Letters in Dynamic Systems and Control: Recent submissions
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Design and Characterization of a Passive Instrumented Hand
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Although soft robotic assistive gloves have high potential for restoring functional independence for individuals with motor impairment, their lack of rigid components makes it difficult to obtain accurate position sensing ... -
Lumped Parameter Modeling and Snap-Through Stability Analysis of Planar Hydraulically Amplified Dielectric Elastomer Actuators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In this paper, we established an analytical model that avoids extensive numerical computation for the analysis of a hydraulically amplified dielectric elastomer actuator. This actuator comprises a thin elastomer shell ... -
Hierarchical Nonlinear Moving Horizon Estimation of Vehicle Lateral Speed and Road Friction Coefficient
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In this paper, we address nonlinear moving horizon estimation (NMHE) of vehicle lateral speed, as well as the road friction coefficient, using measured signals from sensors common to modern series-production automobiles. ... -
Control-Oriented Modeling and Repetitive Control in In-Layer and Cross-Layer Thermal Interactions in Selective Laser Sintering
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Although laser-based additive manufacturing (AM) has enabled unprecedented fabrication of complex parts directly from digital models, broader adoption of the technology remains challenged by insufficient reliability and ... -
Modeling Actuation of Ionomer Cilia in Salt Solution Under an External Electric Field
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)A recent experiment by Kim’s group from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has shown the possibility of actuating ionomer cilia in salt solution. When these actuators are placed between two external electrodes, across ... -
A Stabilizing Control Algorithm for Asynchronous Parallel Quadratic Programing via Dual Decomposition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper proposes a control algorithm for stable implementation of asynchronous parallel quadratic programing (PQP) through a dual decomposition technique. In general, distributed and parallel optimization requires ... -
Enhanced Tire Blowout Modeling Using Vertical Load Redistribution and Self-Alignment Torque
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Tire blowout impacts vehicle stability and creates challenges to vehicle control. To accurately evaluate the impact of tire blowout in different driving scenarios, a new tire blowout model is developed in this work with ... -
Editorial
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)It gives me great pleasure to introduce the new ASME Letters in Dynamic Systems and Control (ALDSC). This is not only a new journal under the ASME banner, but it also represents a new type of journal offering for ASME. In ... -
Data-Oriented State Space Discretization for Crowdsourced Robot Learning of Physical Skills
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This work discusses a crowdsourced learning scheme for robot physical intelligence. Using a large amount of data from crowdsourced mentors, the scheme allows robots to synthesize new physical skills that are never demonstrated ... -
Trajectory Tracking Control for Rotary Drilling Systems Via Integral Sliding Mode Control Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Active and passive control techniques have been devised over the years to mitigate the effect of vibrations on drill-string life with varying degrees of success. Here, it is proposed to design a robust trajectory tracking ... -
Assessing Impact of Understory Vegetation Density on Solid Obstacle Detection for Off-Road Autonomous Ground Vehicles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In autonomous driving systems, advanced sensing technologies (such as Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) devices and cameras) can capture high volume of data for real-time traversability analysis. Off-road autonomy is ... -
Application of Mobile Robots to Linear Control Theory Education
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The knowledge of control engineering for mechanical engineers seems to become more important with the continuous development of automated technologies. To cultivate this knowledge, many experimental devices have been ... -
Modeling and Simulation of Perching With a Quadrotor Aerial Robot With Passive Bio-inspired Legs and Feet
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Perching in unmanned aerial vehicles is appealing for reconnaissance, monitoring, communications, and charging. This paper focuses on modeling, simulation, and control of bioinspired perching in unmanned aerial vehicles ...