Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics: Recent submissions
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Design and Bending Analysis of a Metamorphic Parallel Twisted-Scissor Mechanism
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The conventional scissor mechanism is used in modern engineering and robotic applications due to its metamorphic ability. The folding configuration provides space-saving and unfolding provides longer linear expansion ... -
Special Section: Design, Analysis and Actuation of Reconfigurable Parallel Mechanisms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This Special Section with 11 papers aims to share research efforts in design, theory, development, and applications for Reconfigurable Parallel Mechanisms (RPMs) building on work first presented at the Fourth International ... -
Announcing the 2020 Best Paper Award and Honorable Mentions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Together with the Editorial Board of the Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics (JMR), I am pleased to announce the winner of the journal's 2020 Best Paper Award:Hossein Habibi, Chenghao Yang, Isuru S. Godage, Rongjie Kang, ... -
Journal Initiatives 2021
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Although the community has faced an unprecedented year, I am pleased to report that JMR is thriving and remains on a growth trajectory. While the lives of many were seriously impacted by the pandemic, our community has ... -
Call for Papers for the Special Issue: Selected Papers From IDETC-CIE 2021
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics invites papers for a special issue drawing on papers from the 45th Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (MR), held as part of the 2021 International Design and Engineering Technical ... -
Multiparameter Real-World System Identification Using Iterative Residual Tuning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In this work, we consider the problem of nonlinear system identification using data to learn multiple and often coupled parameters that allow a simulator to more accurately model a physical system or mechanism and close ... -
Special Issue: Selected Papers From IDETC-CIE 2020
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This special issue of the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics is a compendium of 25 of the best papers submitted and presented at the 44th ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference during the 2020 International Design ... -
Modeling of a Complete Morphing Mechanism Covered by a Paneled Morphing Skin
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Presented in this paper is a method for modeling and simulation of a complete morphing mechanism. The said mechanism has a rigid panel morphing skin that morphs along with a driving mechanism. The said skin is made of ... -
Mechanical Design of a Low-Impedance 6-Degree-of-Freedom Displacement Sensor for Intuitive Physical Human–Robot Interaction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper presents the mechanical design of a six-degree-of-freedom low-impedance displacement sensor. The sensor is mounted around a link of a serial robot and used as an interface for physical human–robot interaction. ... -
Balloon Locomotion for Extreme Terrain
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)BALLET (BALloon Locomotion for Extreme Terrain) is a new concept vehicle for robotic surface mobility on planetary bodies with an atmosphere. The vehicle is composed of a buoyant balloon with six evenly distributed suspended ... -
Surgical Applications of Compliant Mechanisms: A Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Current surgical devices are mostly rigid and are made of stiff materials, even though their predominant use is on soft and wet tissues. With the emergence of compliant mechanisms (CMs), surgical tools can be designed to ... -
Reviewer’s Recognition
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The Editor and Editorial Board of the Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics would like to thank all of the reviewers for volunteering their expertise and time reviewing manuscripts in 2020. Serving as reviewers for the journal ... -
Bionic Flapping Mechanism of the Wings of a Cursorial Dinosaur Robot for Estimating Its Lift and Thrust
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)We estimated the lift and thrust of the proto-wings of the dinosaur Caudipteryx, a close relative of birds, using both theoretical and experimental approaches. Our experiments utilized a newly reconstructed flapping wing ... -
Gateway Configuration for Rapid Pick-and-Place Operations of 2-Degrees-of-Freedom Parallel Robots
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This article presents a new assembling for 2 degrees-of-freedom (DOFs) parallel robots for executing rapid pick-and-place operations with low energy consumption. A conventional design of 2-DOF parallel robots is based on ... -
Rotational Low-Impedance Physical Human–Robot Interaction Using Underactuated Redundancy
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper extends the concept of underactuated redundancy for physical human–robot interaction (pHRI) in a context of industrial assembly by introducing a novel 1-dof gravity balanced rotational manipulator. The proposed ... -
Tendon Actuated Continuous Structures in Planar Parallel Robots: A Kinematic Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The use of continuous and flexible structures instead of rigid links and discrete joints is a growing field of robotics research. Recent work focuses on the inclusion of continuous segments in parallel robots to benefit ... -
Limits of Extramobile and Intramobile Motion of Cylindrical Developable Mechanisms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Mechanisms that can both deploy and provide motions to perform desired tasks offer a multifunctional advantage over traditional mechanisms. Developable mechanisms (DMs) are devices capable of conforming to a predetermined ... -
Aerial Contact Manipulation With Soft End-Effector Compliance and Inverse Kinematic Compensation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)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 ... -
Design and Kinematic Analysis of a Flexible-Link Parallel Mechanism With a Spatially Quasi-Translational End Effector
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Intrinsic passive compliance of flexible-link parallel mechanisms makes them suitable for situations where compliant manipulation is necessary. In this work, through using elastic rods as limbs, a flexible-link parallel ... -
Modeling Large Spatial Deflections of Slender Beams of Rectangular Cross Sections in Compliant Mechanisms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Modeling large spatial deflections of flexible beams has been one of the most challenging problems in the research of compliant mechanism. This study presents an approach called chained power series model for modeling large ...