This paper presents using Newton-Raphson method calibration for planar cable robot. In cable robot there are three big error issue which are geometric error and and modeling error and non-geometric error, in this paper we just focus on first two issue. Using MATLAB simulation we found minimum of 8 pose we have to use in calibration equation and the initial vale can decrease of the iteration.

As demands of microrobots increases, micro-actuators for lhe microrobots are actively studied. However, miniaturized motors cannot be easily applied 10 microrobots owing to lhe limitatioJ1s of lheir sizes antd generating forces. Therefore, a new smart material for microrobots should be developed. A mong various smart materials, such as PZT, SMA, Ferrofluid, we focused on a ferropaper actuator using ferrof1uid. The ferropaper actuator is regarded as a smart mater ial and can show large displacemenls, excellent repetilion perfonnances, and relative small actuation forces. In lhis paper, a cellulose is used 10 make a backbone membrane because il has superior properties compared with any others conventional papers. The cellulose paper backbone membrane is easily fabricated as complex shapes and shows a large displacement in a magnetic tield. In detail, patterned ferropaper actuator is made of cellulose acetate using general MEMs procedure and PDMS molding method. Finally, through EDS mapping and alignment experiments of the làbricated ferropaper actuator using an electromagnetic actuation (EMA) system, the patterned ferropaper actuator was characterized.

During the intramedullary nailing procedure, surgeons feel difficulty in manipulation of the X-ray device to align it to axes of nailing holes and suffer from the large radiation exposure from the X-ray device. These problems are caused by the fact the surgeon cannot see the hole’s location directly and should use the X-ray device to find the hole’s location and direction. In this paper, we proposed the robotic guidance of the distal screwing using an optical tracking system. To track the location of the hole for the distal screwing, the reference marker is attached to the proximal end of an intramedullary nail. To guide the drill’s direction robustly, the 6-degree-of-freedom robotic arm is used. The robotic arm is controlled so as to align the drill guiding tool attached the robotic arm with the obtained the hole’s location. For the safety, the robot’s linear and angular velocities are restricted to the predefined values. The experimental results using the artificial bones showed that the position error and the orientation error were 0.91 mm and 1.64°, respectively. The proposed method is simple and easy to implement, thus it is expected to be adopted easily while reducing the radiation exposure significantly.

This paper focuses on the vibration analysis of planar cable–driven parallel robots on their configurations. Despite of many advantages of the cable robots, elasticity of the cables may cause the vibration at the existence of external disturbance, resulting in deterioration of positioning accuracy. According to the vibration theory, having high first order natural frequency can prevent resonance with low frequency disturbance from the surrounding environment. A series of simulations showed that choosing frame / end-effector shape and cable connection method affects robots’ natural frequency. For the precise simulation, the cables are modeled as linear springs and axial vibration of cables is mainly considered. Aspect ratios of the frame and end-effector are defined as non-dimensional parameters while their areas are fixed. It was shown that vibration analysis guides to design a planar cable robot in terms of high capacity to reduce vibration.