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A Classification of 6R Manipulators
This paper presents a classification of generic 6-revolute jointed (6R)
manipulators using homotopy class of their critical point manifold. A part of
classification is listed in this paper because of the complexity of homotopy
class of 4-torus. The results of this classification will serve future research
of the classification and topological properties of maniplators joint space and
workspace.Comment: 4 page
The dynamic effect of mechanical losses of actuators on the equations of motion of legged robots
Industrial manipulators do not collapse under their own weight when powered
off due to the friction in their joints. Although these mechanism are effective
for stiff position control of pick-and-place, they are inappropriate for legged
robots which must rapidly regulate compliant interactions with the environment.
However, no metric exists to quantify the robot's perform degradation due to
mechanical losses in the actuators. This letter provides a novel formulation
which describes how the efficiency of individual actuators propagate to the
equations of motion of the whole robot. We quantitatively demonstrate the
intuitive fact that the apparent inertia of the robots increase in the presence
of joint friction. We also reproduce the empirical result that robots which
employ high gearing and low efficiency actuators can statically sustain more
substantial external loads. We expect that the framework presented here will
provide the foundations to design the next generation of legged robots which
can effectively interact with the world