关键词： Expansion (Business)   Trucks   Robotics  

摘要： The article reports on the expected completion of the technology-rich expansion of truck manufacturer Kenworth's assembly plant in Ohio in November 2016. Topics covered include the addition of a fully automated area for storing parts, the use of robotics and computers in a sending-requisitioning inventory system and the value of the expansion project. Also mentioned is the description by plant manager Judy McTigue on the project.

关键词： Synergy   Principle of abundance   Uncontrolled manifold   Equilibrium-point hypothesis   Stability  

关键词： Movement   Force   Biomechanics   Electromyography   Motor control  

关键词： Hand   Comment   robotics   Neurophysiology   Biological   Neurosciences  

关键词： underwater manipulation   cooperative underwater manipulation systems   autonomous underwater vehicles   task priority-based control  

摘要： The Italian national project MARIS (Marine Robotics for Interventions) pursues the strategic objective of studying, developing, and integrating technologies and methodologies to enable the development of autonomous underwater robotic systems employable for intervention activities. These activities are becoming progressively more typical for the underwater offshore industry, for search-and-rescue operations, and for underwater scientific missions. Within such an ambitious objective, the project consortium also intends to demonstrate the achievable operational capabilities at a proof-of-concept level by integrating the results with prototype experimental systems.

关键词： Self-assembly   Wheeled mobile robot   Docking   Navigation   Lagrangian dynamics  

摘要： Autonomous docking is a focus of research in the field of self-assembly robots. Navigation is a significant stage in the process of autonomous docking between two robotic modules;it determines the efficiency of docking and even the success and failure of the docking task. In most cases, it is too difficult to simultaneously satisfy both linear and angular displacement constraints in a single dynamic numerical computation process. In the present paper, the navigation process is divided into two stages: first, the angular displacement constraint is satisfied, and then the linear displacement condition is fulfilled. In this way, the constraints are loosened and the difficulty of numerical computation is thereby effectively reduced. This two-stage docking navigation model is the main contribution of the present work. By taking the non-holonomic nature of the navigation behavior into consideration, both kinematic and dynamic analyses are performed, and the voltage data of the DC motors required by the two-stage docking navigation are obtained. Finally, docking navigation experiments are completed on a self-assembly modular robot named Sambot. It is verified that the present two-stage strategy is effective in controlling the docking navigation process.