Design and Control of Mechanical Systems

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My research proposal is now broader than the previous one. The fundamental work targeting applications aimed at systems with reduced mobility is well under way. The work ahead along these lines will now focus on the dynamic balancing of a fast pick-and-place (P&P) robot. Work will continue on  two robots that use the two-degree-of-freedom drive (two-dof), dubbed C-drive, that I designed from scratch, based on hard-core theoretical kinematics, in the framework of Lie groups, then went on to the conceptual level, the embodiment, the detailed design, and on to the commissioning. Two identical prototypes have now been mounted on a four-dof robot for fast P&P operations and virtually unlimited rotatability of its gripper, an architecture proposed by a Taiwanese team. The last feature is a major achievement, that aims to respond to a users' challenging feature: a 180-deg rotation capability of the gripper as a minimum. Current commercial systems have responded to this challenge with highly complex mechanisms that are known, off-the-record, to be sources of failure.