Disturbances caused by unknown dynamics and environmental factors render the automatic control of underwater vehicles extremely challenging. These effects are complex, time varying, and difficult to model accurately, leading to possible instability in the control process. This article focuses on the disturbance rejection problem of an underactuated bionic underwater vehicle … [Read more...] about Bionic Underwater Vehicle: A Data-Driven Disturbance Rejection Control Framework
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A Cable-Driven Hyperredundant Manipulator: Obstacle-Avoidance Path Planning and Tension Optimization
Manipulators with a hyperredundant and large aspect ratio are becoming more commonly used to detect complex and narrow spaces. The hyperredundant feature confers advantages for such manipulator types in comparison to traditional manipulators. However, they also introduce path-planning challenges. Due to the characteristics of hyperredundancy, there are countless inverse … [Read more...] about A Cable-Driven Hyperredundant Manipulator: Obstacle-Avoidance Path Planning and Tension Optimization