我们为双人浮标的车辆动态提供了一种冰摩擦模型,其可用于驾驶员评估和在驾驶员在环路模拟器中。通过将实验结果与有限元模拟相结合来建模纵向摩擦,以产生接触压力和摩擦之间的相关性。为了模拟横向摩擦,我们使用特殊传感器收集44个Bobsleigh运行的数据。非线性回归用于将Bob特定的单轨车辆动态模型适合数据。它适用于驾驶仿真,并启用鲍勃司机评估的新方法。调查了具有各种经验的鲍勃司机。它表明,顶级驱动程序的类似性能由不同的驾驶风格产生。
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虽然在各种应用中广泛使用刚性机器人,但它们在他们可以执行的任务中受到限制,并且在密切的人机交互中可以保持不安全。另一方面,软机器鞋面超越了刚性机器人的能力,例如与工作环境,自由度,自由度,制造成本和与环境安全互动的兼容性。本文研究了纤维增强弹性机壳(释放)作为一种特定类型的软气动致动器的行为,可用于软装饰器。创建动态集参数模型以在各种操作条件下模拟单一免费的运动,并通知控制器的设计。所提出的PID控制器使用旋转角度来控制多项式函数之后的自由到限定的步进输入或轨迹的响应来控制末端执行器的方向。另外,采用有限元分析方法,包括释放的固有非线性材料特性,精确地评估释放的各种参数和配置。该工具还用于确定模块中多个释放的工作空间,这基本上是软机械臂的构建块。
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A reduced order model of a generic submarine is presented. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) results are used to create and validate a model that includes depth dependence and the effect of waves on the craft. The model and the procedure to obtain its coefficients are discussed, and examples of the data used to obtain the model coefficients are presented. An example of operation following a complex path is presented and results from the reduced order model are compared to those from an equivalent CFD calculation. The controller implemented to complete these maneuvers is also presented.
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研究界,工业和社会中地面移动机器人(MRS)和无人机(UAV)的重要性正在迅速发展。如今,这些代理中的许多代理都配备了通信系统,在某些情况下,对于成功完成某些任务至关重要。在这种情况下,我们已经开始见证在机器人技术和通信的交集中开发一个新的跨学科研究领域。该研究领域的意图是将无人机集成到5G和6G通信网络中。这项研究无疑将在不久的将来导致许多重要的应用。然而,该研究领域发展的主要障碍之一是,大多数研究人员通过过度简化机器人技术或通信方面来解决这些问题。这阻碍了达到这个新的跨学科研究领域的全部潜力的能力。在本教程中,我们介绍了一些建模工具,从跨学科的角度来解决涉及机器人技术和通信的问题所需的一些建模工具。作为此类问题的说明性示例,我们将重点放在本教程上,讨论通信感知轨迹计划的问题。
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本文提出了一项新颖的控制法,以使用尾随机翼无人驾驶飞机(UAV)进行准确跟踪敏捷轨迹,该轨道在垂直起飞和降落(VTOL)和向前飞行之间过渡。全球控制配方可以在整个飞行信封中进行操作,包括与Sideslip的不协调的飞行。显示了具有简化空气动力学模型的非线性尾尾动力学的差异平坦度。使用扁平度变换,提出的控制器结合了位置参考的跟踪及其导数速度,加速度和混蛋以及偏航参考和偏航速率。通过角速度进纸术语包含混蛋和偏航率参考,可以改善随着快速变化的加速度跟踪轨迹。控制器不取决于广泛的空气动力学建模,而是使用增量非线性动态反演(INDI)仅基于局部输入输出关系来计算控制更新,从而导致对简化空气动力学方程中差异的稳健性。非线性输入输出关系的精确反转是通过派生的平坦变换实现的。在飞行测试中对所得的控制算法进行了广泛的评估,在该测试中,它展示了准确的轨迹跟踪和挑战性敏捷操作,例如侧向飞行和转弯时的侵略性过渡。
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微空中车辆(MAVS)在户外操作的限制靠近障碍物,通过他们承受风阵风的能力。目前广泛的位置控制方法,例如比例整体衍生物控制在阵风的影响下不会均匀。增量非线性动态反转(INDI)是一种基于传感器的控制技术,可以控制受扰动的非线性系统。它是为载人飞机或MAVS的态度控制而开发的。在本文中,我们将这种方法概括为严重燃烧负载下MAV的外环控制。在一个实验中对传统的比例积分衍生物(PID)控制器的显着改进进行了说明,其中四轮电机在10米/秒的吹风机排气进出中。控制方法不依赖于频繁的位置更新,如使用标准GPS模块的外部实验中所示。最后,我们研究了使用线性化来计算推力向量增量的效果,与非线性计算相比。该方法需要很少的建模并且是计算效率。
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视觉的触觉传感器由于经济实惠的高分辨率摄像机和成功的计算机视觉技术而被出现为机器人触摸的有希望的方法。但是,它们的物理设计和他们提供的信息尚不符合真实应用的要求。我们提供了一种名为Insight的强大,柔软,低成本,视觉拇指大小的3D触觉传感器:它不断在其整个圆锥形感测表面上提供定向力分布图。围绕内部单眼相机构造,传感器仅在刚性框架上仅成型一层弹性体,以保证灵敏度,鲁棒性和软接触。此外,Insight是第一个使用准直器将光度立体声和结构光混合的系统来检测其易于更换柔性外壳的3D变形。通过将图像映射到3D接触力的空间分布(正常和剪切)的深神经网络推断力信息。洞察力在0.4毫米的总空间分辨率,力量幅度精度约为0.03 n,并且对于具有不同接触面积的多个不同触点,在0.03-2 n的范围内的5度大约5度的力方向精度。呈现的硬件和软件设计概念可以转移到各种机器人部件。
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基于对高分辨率水下视觉调查的需求,本研究表明,现有的烟囱II自主水下车辆(AUV)适应完全悬停的AUV完全能够进行自主,近​​距离成像调查任务。本文重点介绍了AUV机动能力的增强(实现了改进的机动控制),实现了最新推进器分配算法的状态(允许最佳推进器分配和推进器冗余),以及在控制器之后的升级路径的开发以便于精确开发高分辨率成像任务所需的精致运动。为了便于车辆适应,开发了一种动态模型。提出了使用良好接受的公式,通过计算流体动力学和实际海上实验获得最初获得的动态模型系数的校准过程。还提出了耐压成像系统的房屋开发。该系统包括立体声相机和高功率闪电闪光灯,并作为专用AUV有效载荷装配。最后,在实际海床视觉调查任务中证明了平台的性能。
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本文提出了一种新颖的技术,该技术允许对具有不可构造轨道的车辆进行计算快速且足够合理的模拟。该方法基于我们称为接触表面运动的效果。提出了与其他几种模拟轨道车辆动力学模拟的方法的比较,目的是评估现成的方法或在通用机器人模拟器中使用最少努力的方法。提出的方法是使用开放动力学引擎的开源物理模拟器凉亭实现的。
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Developing and testing algorithms for autonomous vehicles in real world is an expensive and time consuming process. Also, in order to utilize recent advances in machine intelligence and deep learning we need to collect a large amount of annotated training data in a variety of conditions and environments. We present a new simulator built on Unreal Engine that offers physically and visually realistic simulations for both of these goals. Our simulator includes a physics engine that can operate at a high frequency for real-time hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) simulations with support for popular protocols (e.g. MavLink). The simulator is designed from the ground up to be extensible to accommodate new types of vehicles, hardware platforms and software protocols. In addition, the modular design enables various components to be easily usable independently in other projects. We demonstrate the simulator by first implementing a quadrotor as an autonomous vehicle and then experimentally comparing the software components with real-world flights.
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众所周知,在ADAS应用中,需要良好的估计车辆的姿势。本文提出了一种鉴定的2.5D内径术,由此由横摆率传感器和四轮速度传感器衍生的平面内径测量由悬架的线性模型增强。虽然平面内径术的核心是在文献中已经理解的横摆率模型,但我们通过拟合二次传入信号,实现内插,推断和车辆位置的更精细的整合来增强这一点。我们通过DGPS / IMU参考的实验结果表明,该模型提供了与现有方法相比的高精度的内径估计。利用返回车辆参考点高度变化的传感器改变悬架配置,我们定义了车辆悬架的平面模型,从而增加了内径模型。我们提出了一个实验框架和评估标准,通过该标准评估了内径术的良好和与现有方法进行了比较。该测距模型旨在支持众所周知的低速环绕式摄像头系统。因此,我们介绍了一些应用程序结果,该应用结果显示使用所提出的内径术来查看和计算机视觉应用程序的性能提升
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我们探索粒状介质(GM)中软机器的运动,由细长杆的弹性变形产生。提出了由细菌的生理结构的低成本,迅速制造的机器人。它由刚性头部,带有电动机和电池的嵌入式和电池,以及多个弹性杆(我们的灯泡模型)来调查通用汽车的运动。弹性鞭毛在电机一端旋转,它们由于从GM的拖动而变形,推动机器人。外部拖动由鞭毛形状决定,而后者由于外部负载和弹力之间的竞争而改变。在该耦合的流体结构相互作用问题中,我们观察到增加鞭毛的数量可以减小或增加机器人的推进速度,这取决于系统的物理参数。这种简单机器人之间的功能关系中的这种非线性激励我们利用理论,数值模拟和实验来从根本上分析其力学。我们提出了一个简单的欧拉伯努利光束理论的分析框架,其能够定性地捕获这两种情况。当鞭毛变形小时,理论预测定量匹配实验。为了考虑经常在软机器人和微生物中遇到的几何非线性变形,我们实施了一种仿真框架,该框架包括弹性杆的离散微分几何形状模拟,这是一种基于电阻理论的拖曳模型,以及用于流体动力学的改进的斯托克斯法机器人头。与实验数据的比较表明模拟可以定量地预测机器人运动。总的来说,本文中提出的理论和数值工具可以在粒状或流体介质中的这类清晰的机器人的设计和控制来阐明。
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Hybrid unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) integrate the efficient forward flight of fixed-wing and vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capabilities of multicopter UAVs. This paper presents the modeling, control and simulation of a new type of hybrid micro-small UAVs, coined as lifting-wing quadcopters. The airframe orientation of the lifting wing needs to tilt a specific angle often within $ 45$ degrees, neither nearly $ 90$ nor approximately $ 0$ degrees. Compared with some convertiplane and tail-sitter UAVs, the lifting-wing quadcopter has a highly reliable structure, robust wind resistance, low cruise speed and reliable transition flight, making it potential to work fully-autonomous outdoor or some confined airspace indoor. In the modeling part, forces and moments generated by both lifting wing and rotors are considered. Based on the established model, a unified controller for the full flight phase is designed. The controller has the capability of uniformly treating the hovering and forward flight, and enables a continuous transition between two modes, depending on the velocity command. What is more, by taking rotor thrust and aerodynamic force under consideration simultaneously, a control allocation based on optimization is utilized to realize cooperative control for energy saving. Finally, comprehensive Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) simulations are performed to verify the advantages of the designed aircraft and the proposed controller.
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We address the theoretical and practical problems related to the trajectory generation and tracking control of tail-sitter UAVs. Theoretically, we focus on the differential flatness property with full exploitation of actual UAV aerodynamic models, which lays a foundation for generating dynamically feasible trajectory and achieving high-performance tracking control. We have found that a tail-sitter is differentially flat with accurate aerodynamic models within the entire flight envelope, by specifying coordinate flight condition and choosing the vehicle position as the flat output. This fundamental property allows us to fully exploit the high-fidelity aerodynamic models in the trajectory planning and tracking control to achieve accurate tail-sitter flights. Particularly, an optimization-based trajectory planner for tail-sitters is proposed to design high-quality, smooth trajectories with consideration of kinodynamic constraints, singularity-free constraints and actuator saturation. The planned trajectory of flat output is transformed to state trajectory in real-time with consideration of wind in environments. To track the state trajectory, a global, singularity-free, and minimally-parameterized on-manifold MPC is developed, which fully leverages the accurate aerodynamic model to achieve high-accuracy trajectory tracking within the whole flight envelope. The effectiveness of the proposed framework is demonstrated through extensive real-world experiments in both indoor and outdoor field tests, including agile SE(3) flight through consecutive narrow windows requiring specific attitude and with speed up to 10m/s, typical tail-sitter maneuvers (transition, level flight and loiter) with speed up to 20m/s, and extremely aggressive aerobatic maneuvers (Wingover, Loop, Vertical Eight and Cuban Eight) with acceleration up to 2.5g.
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As an effective method to deliver external materials into biological cells, microinjection has been widely applied in the biomedical field. However, the cognition of cell mechanical property is still inadequate, which greatly limits the efficiency and success rate of injection. Thus, a new rate-dependent mechanical model based on membrane theory is proposed for the first time. In this model, an analytical equilibrium equation between the injection force and cell deformation is established by considering the speed effect of microinjection. Different from the traditional membrane-theory-based model, the elastic coefficient of the constitutive material in the proposed model is modified as a function of the injection velocity and acceleration, effectively simulating the influence of speeds on the mechanical responses and providing a more generalized and practical model. Using this model, other mechanical responses at different speeds can be also accurately predicted, including the distribution of membrane tension and stress and the deformed shape. To verify the validity of the model, numerical simulations and experiments are carried out. The results show that the proposed model can match the real mechanical responses well at different injection speeds.
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二次运动的准确轨迹跟踪控制对于在混乱环境中的安全导航至关重要。但是,由于非线性动态,复杂的空气动力学效应和驱动约束,这在敏捷飞行中具有挑战性。在本文中,我们通过经验比较两个最先进的控制框架:非线性模型预测控制器(NMPC)和基于差异的控制器(DFBC),通过以速度跟踪各种敏捷轨迹,最多20 m/s(即72 km/h)。比较在模拟和现实世界环境中进行,以系统地评估这两种方法从跟踪准确性,鲁棒性和计算效率的方面。我们以更高的计算时间和数值收敛问题的风险来表明NMPC在跟踪动态不可行的轨迹方面的优势。对于这两种方法,我们还定量研究了使用增量非线性动态反演(INDI)方法添加内环控制器的效果,以及添加空气动力学阻力模型的效果。我们在世界上最大的运动捕获系统之一中进行的真实实验表明,NMPC和DFBC的跟踪误差降低了78%以上,这表明有必要使用内环控制器和用于敏捷轨迹轨迹跟踪的空气动力学阻力模型。
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We designed and constructed an A-sized base autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), augmented with a stack of modular and extendable hardware and software, including autonomy, navigation, control and high fidelity simulation capabilities (A-size stands for the standard sonobuoy form factor, with a maximum diameter of 124 mm). Subsequently, we extended this base vehicle with a novel tuna-inspired morphing fin payload module (referred to as the Morpheus AUV), to achieve good directional stability and exceptional maneuverability; properties that are highly desirable for rigid hull AUVs, but are presently difficult to achieve because they impose contradictory requirements. The morphing fin payload allows the base AUV to dynamically change its stability-maneuverability qualities by using morphing fins, which can be deployed, deflected and retracted, as needed. The base vehicle and Morpheus AUV were both extensively field tested in-water in the Charles river, Massachusetts, USA; by conducting hundreds of hours of operations over a period of two years. The maneuvering capability of the Morpheus AUV was evaluated with and without the use of morphing fins to quantify the performance improvement. The Morpheus AUV was able to showcase an exceptional turning rate of around 25-35 deg/s. A maximum turn rate improvement of around 35% - 50% was gained through the use of morphing fins.
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由于这些要求的竞争性质,尤其是在一系列的运行速度和条件下,在转向控制中的准确性和误差融合与优美运动的平衡路径与优美的运动具有挑战性。本文表明,考虑滑移对运动学控制,动态控制和转向执行器速率命令的影响的集成多层转向控制器可实现准确且优美的路径。这项工作建立在多层侧滑和基于YAW的模型上,该模型允许派生控制器考虑由于侧滑而引起的误差以及转向命令和优美的侧向运动之间的映射。基于观察者的侧滑估计与运动控制器中的标题误差相结合,以提供前馈滑移补偿。使用基于速度的路径歧管,通过连续变量结构控制器(VSC)来补偿路径以下误差,以平衡优雅的运动和误差收敛。后台动态控制器使用结果偏航率命令来生成转向率命令。高增益观察者(HGO)估计输出反馈控制的侧滑和偏航率。提供了输出反馈控制器的稳定性分析,并解决了峰值。该工作仅针对侧向控制,因此转向控制器可以与其他速度控制器结合使用。现场结果提供了与相关方法的比较,这些方法在不同的复杂情况下证明了具有不同天气条件和扰动的不同复杂情况。
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机器人社区在为软机器人设备建模提供的理论工具的复杂程度中看到了指数增长。已经提出了不同的解决方案以克服与软机器人建模相关的困难,通常利用其他科学学科,例如连续式机械和计算机图形。这些理论基础通常被认为是理所当然的,这导致复杂的文献,因此,从未得到完整审查的主题。Withing这种情况下,提交的文件的目标是双重的。突出显示涉及建模技术的不同系列的常见理论根源,采用统一语言,以简化其主要连接和差异的分析。因此,对上市接近自然如下,并最终提供在该领域的主要作品的完整,解开,审查。
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拍打翅膀是一种生物启发的方法,可在空中机器人中产生升力和推动,从而导致安静有效的运动。该技术的优点是安全性和可操作性,以及与环境,人类和动物的物理互动。但是,为了实现大量应用,这些机器人必须栖息和土地。尽管最近在栖息场上取得了进展,但直到今天,拍打翼车辆或鸟类动物仍无法停止在分支上的飞行。在本文中,我们提出了一种新颖的方法,该方法定义了一个可以可靠和自主将鸟鸟类降落在分支上的过程。该方法描述了拍打飞行控制器的联合操作,近距离校正系统和被动爪附件。飞行由三重俯仰高空控制器和集成的车身电子设备处理,允许以3 m/s的速度栖息。近距离校正系统,具有快速的光学分支传感可补偿着陆时的位置错位。这是通过被动双向爪设计可以补充的,可以锁定和固定2 nm的扭矩,在25毫秒内掌握,并且由于集成的肌腱致动而可以重新打开。栖息的方法补充了四步实验开发过程,该过程为成功的设计优化。我们用700 g的鸟杆验证了这种方法,并演示了在分支上拍打翼机器人的第一次自主栖息飞行,结果用第二个机器人复制。这项工作为在远程任务,观察,操纵和室外飞行中应用翼机器人的应用铺平了道路。
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