Purpose–Cooperative control of a group of unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)is an important area of research.The purpose of this paper is to explore multi-UAV control in the framework of providing surveillance of areas o...
This work was supported by a seed funding award from CITRIS in 2010,SFP#66,“Paradigm Shift of Neurorehabilitation of Stroke Patients using Wearable Robotics.”。
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the physiotherapeutic benefits of bilateral symmetric training(BST)for stroke survivors affected by hemiparesis.Design/methodology/approach–Other studies have investi...
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to design a discrete indirect adaptive fuzzy controller for a robotic manipulator.This paper addresses how to overcome the approximation error of the fuzzy system and uncertaintie...
Purpose–The uncertainty and nonlinearity are the challenging problems for the control of a nonholonomic wheeled mobile robot.To overcome these problems,many valuable methods have been proposed by using two control lo...
Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)under grant#61273054,#60975072 and#60604009;National Key Basic Research Program of China under grant#2013CB035503;National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(863 Program)under grant#2011AA040902;Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of China under grant#NCET-10-0021;Top-Notch Young Talents Program of China,Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China,and Aeronautical Foundation of China under grant#20115151019.
Purpose–Artificial bee colony(ABC)algorithm is a relatively new optimization method inspired by the herd behavior of honey bees,which shows quite intelligence.The purpose of this paper is to propose an improved ABC o...
Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)under grant no.61333004,no.61273054 and no.60975072;National Key Basic Research Program of China(973 Project)under grant no.2014CB046401;Top-Notch Young Talents Program of China,and Aeronautical Foundation of China under grant no.20135851042.
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to present a novel swarm intelligence optimizer—pigeoninspired optimization(PIO)—and describe how this algorithm was applied to solve air robot path planning problems.Design/me...
The authors wish to acknowledge partial financial support from the European Union through the Guardians project(IST-045269).
Purpose-This paper aims to discuss traffic patterns generated by swarms of robots while commuting to and from a base station.Design/methodology/approach-The paper adopts a mathematical evaluation and robot swarm simul...
This work has been supported in part by Hi-tech Research and Development Program of China under Grant 2007AA04Z204 and Grant 2008AA04Z207;in part by the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 60674105,60975058 and 61075095.
Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to develop a novel wearable rehabilitation robotic hand driven by Pneumatic Muscle-Torsion Spring(PM-TS)for finger therapy.PM has complex nonlinear dynamics,which makes PM modellin...
This work was supported by the Aeronautical Science Foundation of China under Grant no.2010ZC1312;Foundation of Science and Technology on Electron-Optic Control Laboratory.
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to present a hybrid method of intelligent optimization algorithm and Receding Horizon Control.The method is applied to solve the problem of cooperative search of multi-unmanned ae...