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Design and Optimization of a Wearable
Under-actuated Mechanism for Spinal Posture
Measurement

This study proposes a novel wearable device to monitor and record the posture and alignment of spine. The proposed device adopts an under-actuated mechanism design which allows it to adapt to the multiple-degrees-of-freedom spinal posture with minimum weight and complexity. To ensure the validity of measurement and comfort of wearing, the mechanism parameters are determined …

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Under-actuated Mechanism for Spinal Posture
Measurement
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Robotics

This course provides an overview of robot mechanisms, dynamics, and intelligent controls. Topics include actuators, and sensors, planar and spatial kinematics, multi-rigid-body dynamics, motion planning, control design, and so on.  Laboratory assignments provide experience with servo drives, sensors, interface circuitry, construction of a robot arm,  microprocessor-based real-time control, and robot operating system (ROS). At the …

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Application of Stochastic Optimization on a Multi-axis Robot Arm for Obstacle Avoidance and Trajectory Planning

This research combines a sampling-based planning (SBP) algorithm with stochastic trajectory optimization for motion planning (STOMP) to enable a multi-axis industrial robot arm to generate an obstacle-avoiding motion path according to the operating environment and task requirements. The SBP algorithm is used due to the large search space of the multi-axis industrial robot arm, which …

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Balancing and Trajectory Control of a Self-Driving Bicycle

The purpose of this research is to construct a self-driving bicycle that can balance itself and automatically track a designated trajectory in campus environments. For balancing, a lower-level controller is designed based on the dynamic model of the bicycle. It allows the bicycle to achieve lateral stability and cornering action with robustness to speed variations. …

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SLAM, Navigation and Torque Vectoring for a Four-Wheel-Drive AWD Autonomous Electric Racing Vehicle

Based on the Formula Student Driverless (FSD) competition, this thesis is devoted to the construction of a scale-down electric vehicle, and the self-driving system for the vehicle to autonomously run on the track defined by traffic cones. The design of the electric vehicle follows the requirements of the FSD competition. Its propulsion force is provided …

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Constructive Extension of Deep Reinforcement Learning Network for Multi-Robot Obstacle Avoidance and Navigation in Generalized Map Environment

This research aims to integrate constructive neural networks and virtual robot placement strategy to achieve obstacle avoidance and navigation for multiple robots in a generalized map environment. Deep reinforcement learning theory is applied to design neural networks, which are trained in free space to improve the performance of the dual robot system in obstacle avoidance …

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Reinforcement Learning Optimization of Optimalwalking Walking trajectory Trajectory for a bipedal Bipedal robot Robot under Hybrid Kinematics/Dynamics Control

This research proposes a hierarchical control structure combined with reinforcement learning for the stable walking of bipedal robots. The hierarchical control structure consists of a walking trajectory planner and a low-level motion controller. The walking trajectory planner generates a CoM trajectory based on the predefined zero moment point (ZMP) trajectory. The low-level controller consists of …

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Balancing Control of a Robot Bicycle with Uncertain Center of Gravity

在本研究中,我們建立了一人型機器人與等同大小的腳踏車。此人型機器人被設計來踩踏、平衡與駕駛此腳踏車。我們特別專注於設計控制系統使機器人能藉由操控把手來平衡與駕駛腳踏車。我們所提出的控制系統具有估測重心的能力,因之可在未知重心位置下達到平衡的性能。此控制系統是基於一廣用的控制架構,此控制架構能在未知量測偏差的狀況下達到漸近穩定的控制效能。我們也發展了一系統化的程序來設計相關的控制參數。我們以模擬與實驗驗證控制系統能達到重心自適應的性能,特別是在重心不平衡下,使機器人控制腳踏車沿直線行駛。

Development of a Control System for Collaborative Spinal Surgery Robotic Manipulator

Compared to the serial design commonly used in industrial robotic arms, parallel manipulators can handle high loads with a compact volume and weight and offer advantages such as high rigidity and precision. They are well-suited for minimally invasive spinal surgery applications where the space is tight and both soft and hard tissues are involved. This …

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Control Design of a Multi-Input-Multi-Output Wafer Heating System

This research focuses on the development of multi-input, multi-output control technique for wafer heating systems. The heating system utilizes multiple heating lamps as heat sources and multiple thermocouples for temperature sensing. The objective is to establish a control algorithm that takes temperature measurements from the thermocouples as inputs and controls the voltage supplied to the …

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