RoManSy 15 (2004), Montreal, Canada Preface In memory of Prof. Bianchi Canadian Activities in Intelligent Robotic Systems - An Overview Planetary Robotics Intelligent Mobile Robots: The State of the Art and Perspectives Space Robotics: An overview of MDR's Contribution to the State-of-the-Art Session 1: Space Robotics On-Orbit Safety Monitoring System - Development and Applications Strategy and Ground Experiments on Space
Flexible Structure Tracking by
Multiple Robots on Vibrating Bases On Configuration Planning for Free-floating Space Robots Dynamic Simulation of an Underactuated Hand for Space Applications Session 2: Kinematics and Synthesis Motion Approximation Using a Stereographic Projection of Study’s
Soma
Space Expandable Polyhedral Mechanisms Based on Regular 1-dof Faces Type Synthesis of 3-DOF Ttranslational Parallel Manipulators Based
on
Screw Theory Revisited Session 3: Contact Dynamics Contact Dynamics and Control Strategy Based on Impedance Matching
for
Robotic Capture of a Non-cooperative Satellite Space Robotics Contact Dynamics Investigations and Experiments:
ROKVISS Experimental Contact Parameter Estimation Using a 6-DOF Robot Session 4: Rolling Robots Unified Facility for the Development, Integration and Testing of
Autonomous Navigation Schemes for Planetary Exploration Modelling of a Two-Wheeled Mobile Robot Moving on an Uneven Road
Profile The Control of Semi-Autonomous Self-Balancing Two-Wheeled
Quasiholonomic Mobile Robots Session 5: Flexible Robotic Systems Kinematics and Stiffness Analysis for a General 3-PRS Spatial
Parallel
Mechanism A Procedure for Experimental Evaluation of Cartesian Stiffness
Matrix Elastic Deformation Degree Index and Elastic Distortional Strain
Energy
Index of Flexible Robots Session 6: Kinematic & Dynamic Analyses The Kinematic Analysis of a Symmetrical Three-Degree-of-Freedom
Planar
Parallel Manipulator Kinematic Analysis and Workspace Determination of the Inclined PRS
Parallel Manipulator Kinematic and Dynamic Analysis of a New Rotational Motion
Simulator Session 7: Walking, Running & Crawling Robots Realization of Knee Stretch Walking by a New Biped Robot, WABIAN-2
LL WL-15: Prototype of a Multi-purpose Biped Locomotor with Parallel
Mechanism Architectural Issues in Running Machines Autonomous Walking Robots: Control Systems Realization Mathematical Models and Prototypes of Worm-like Motion Systems
Using
Magnetic Materials Session 8: Design Issues Kinematic Analysis and Design of Cable-driven Spherical Parallel
Mechanisms Load Cyclic Characteristics of Large-Deflective Hinges in Molded
Pantograph Mechanisms with Hinges and Links Task Based Optimization Method for the Design of Modular Minimally
Invasive Surgery Instruments Session 9: Singularity Analysis Parallel Manipulator Control While Intersecting Singular Zones On the Singular Configurations of the Canadarm2 Mobility and Singularity Analysis of a Selectively Actuated
Parallel
Mechanism Session 10: Humanoids & Human Augmentation Development of Mental Model for Humanoid Robots Mechanical Design and Motion Control of Emotion Expression
Humanoid
Robot WE-4R Design of a Walking-aid and Sit-to-Stand Transfer Assisting Device
for
Elderly People Teaching-in Force Control of Industrial Robots Used in Medical
Applications Unnormalized Quasi-Velocity Control Using Friction Compensation Discrete-Time Control by Nonlinear Online Optimization on Multiple
Shrinking Horizons for Underactuated Manipulators Vision and Force Based Autonomous Micromanipulation. |