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The work presented here is a novel biological approach for the compliant control of a robotic arm in real time (RT). We integrate a spiking cerebellar network at the core of a feedback control loop performing torque-driven control. The…
While the original goal for developing robots is replacing humans in dangerous and tedious tasks, the final target shall be completely mimicking the human cognitive and motor behaviour. Hence, building detailed computational models for the…
To achieve control objectives for extremely large-scale complex networks using standard methods is essentially intractable. In this work a theory of the approximate control of complex network systems is proposed and developed by the use of…
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This paper discusses the approximate controllability of a fractional differential control problem driven by a nonlinear hemivariational inequality in a Hilbert space. First, we prove the existence of a mild solution for a fractional control…
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To economically deploy robotic manipulators the programming and execution of robot motions must be swift. To this end, we propose a novel, constraint-based method to intuitively specify sequential manipulation tasks and to compute…
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Autonomous manipulation in robot arms is a complex and evolving field of study in robotics. This paper proposes work stands at the intersection of two innovative approaches in the field of robotics and machine learning. Inspired by the…
In this paper, we consider the approximate controllability of partial differential equations with time derivatives of non-integer order via boundary control. We first show the unique existence of the solution under smooth boundary…
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It is essential in many applications to impose a scalable coordinated motion control on a large group of mobile robots, which is efficient in tasks requiring repetitive execution, such as environmental monitoring. In this paper, we design a…
In this article, we completely describe the control sets of one-input linear control systems on solvable, nonnilpotent 3D Lie groups. We show that, if the restriction of the associate derivation to the nilradical is nontrivial, the Lie…