It is challenging to find optimum kinematic designs for non-standard robotic manipulators, e.g., medical, nuclear, and space manipulators, which are demanded to adapt to arbitrary complex tasks in constraints. Such design optimization can be modelled as a multi-dimensional non-convex optimization problem with nonlinear constrained conditions. Howev…
The DEMO remote maintenance system (RMS) will have a significant role in keeping the power plant operational, and therefore, would have a large impact on its economic feasibility. The identification of impending mechanical failures of the RMS equipment during active maintenance operations is crucial if unscheduled and or unplanned recovery and resc…
