Conventional manipulators with rigid structures and sti ness actuators have poor flexibility,limited obstacle avoidance capability,and constrained workspace.Some developed flexible or soft manipulators in recent years...Conventional manipulators with rigid structures and sti ness actuators have poor flexibility,limited obstacle avoidance capability,and constrained workspace.Some developed flexible or soft manipulators in recent years have the characteristics of infinite degrees of freedom,high flexibility,environmental adaptability,and extended manipulation capability.However,these existing manipulators still cannot achieve the shrinking motion and independent control of specified segments like the animals,which hinders their applications.In this paper,a flexible bio-tensegrity manipulator,inspired by the longitudinal and transversal muscles of octopus tentacles,was proposed to mimic the shrinking behavior and achieve the variable motion patterns of each segment.Such proposed manipulator uses the elastic spring as the backbone,which is driven by four cables and has one variable structure mechanism in each segment to achieve the independent control of each segment.The variable structure mechanism innovatively contains seven lock-release states to independently control the bending and shrinking motion of each segment.After the kinematic modeling and analysis,one prototype of such bionic flexible manipulator was built and the open-loop control method was proposed.Some proof-of-concept experiments,including the shrinking motion,bending motion,and variable structure motion,were carried out by controlling the length of four cables and changing the lock-release states of the variable structure mechanism,which validate the feasibility and validity of our proposed prototype.Meanwhile,the experimental results show the flexible manipulator can accomplish the bending and shrinking motion with the relative error less than 6.8%through the simple independent control of each segment using the variable structure mechanism.This proposed manipulator has the features of controllable degree-of-freedom in each segment,which extend their environmental adaptability,and manipulation capability.展开更多
为了提高空间用磁悬浮飞轮输出偏转力矩的能力和精度,提出一种利用轴向力控制转子径向偏转的五自由度永磁偏置磁轴承(permanent-magnet-biased magnetic bearing withfive degrees of freedom,5-DOF-PMB),有效减小了飞轮体积和转子轴向...为了提高空间用磁悬浮飞轮输出偏转力矩的能力和精度,提出一种利用轴向力控制转子径向偏转的五自由度永磁偏置磁轴承(permanent-magnet-biased magnetic bearing withfive degrees of freedom,5-DOF-PMB),有效减小了飞轮体积和转子轴向长度,提高了系统的集成度,改善了转子系统的固有模态和稳定性。有限元仿真表明,按照角动量为15 N?m?s飞轮的要求设计的轴向力偏转5-DOF-PMB可同时满足各自由度负载的要求。为了提高转子径向大偏移时主动振动的控制精度,进一步对轴向力偏转5-DOF-PMB径向通道进行了磁路解耦设计。等效磁路分析与有限元仿真表明,经磁路解耦的5-DOF-PMB径向通道间磁路耦合程度削弱了2个数量级。最后从等效磁路和结构设计角度,对永磁偏置磁轴承的磁路解耦设计方法进行了归纳和总结。展开更多
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51705066,51805128)Sichuan Science and Technology Program(Grant No.2019YFG0343)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(Grant Nos.ZYGX2019J041,ZYGX2016KYQD137).
文摘Conventional manipulators with rigid structures and sti ness actuators have poor flexibility,limited obstacle avoidance capability,and constrained workspace.Some developed flexible or soft manipulators in recent years have the characteristics of infinite degrees of freedom,high flexibility,environmental adaptability,and extended manipulation capability.However,these existing manipulators still cannot achieve the shrinking motion and independent control of specified segments like the animals,which hinders their applications.In this paper,a flexible bio-tensegrity manipulator,inspired by the longitudinal and transversal muscles of octopus tentacles,was proposed to mimic the shrinking behavior and achieve the variable motion patterns of each segment.Such proposed manipulator uses the elastic spring as the backbone,which is driven by four cables and has one variable structure mechanism in each segment to achieve the independent control of each segment.The variable structure mechanism innovatively contains seven lock-release states to independently control the bending and shrinking motion of each segment.After the kinematic modeling and analysis,one prototype of such bionic flexible manipulator was built and the open-loop control method was proposed.Some proof-of-concept experiments,including the shrinking motion,bending motion,and variable structure motion,were carried out by controlling the length of four cables and changing the lock-release states of the variable structure mechanism,which validate the feasibility and validity of our proposed prototype.Meanwhile,the experimental results show the flexible manipulator can accomplish the bending and shrinking motion with the relative error less than 6.8%through the simple independent control of each segment using the variable structure mechanism.This proposed manipulator has the features of controllable degree-of-freedom in each segment,which extend their environmental adaptability,and manipulation capability.
文摘为了提高空间用磁悬浮飞轮输出偏转力矩的能力和精度,提出一种利用轴向力控制转子径向偏转的五自由度永磁偏置磁轴承(permanent-magnet-biased magnetic bearing withfive degrees of freedom,5-DOF-PMB),有效减小了飞轮体积和转子轴向长度,提高了系统的集成度,改善了转子系统的固有模态和稳定性。有限元仿真表明,按照角动量为15 N?m?s飞轮的要求设计的轴向力偏转5-DOF-PMB可同时满足各自由度负载的要求。为了提高转子径向大偏移时主动振动的控制精度,进一步对轴向力偏转5-DOF-PMB径向通道进行了磁路解耦设计。等效磁路分析与有限元仿真表明,经磁路解耦的5-DOF-PMB径向通道间磁路耦合程度削弱了2个数量级。最后从等效磁路和结构设计角度,对永磁偏置磁轴承的磁路解耦设计方法进行了归纳和总结。
