The 5th Jc-IFToMM International Seminar is held as following.
| Title | Design, Modeling and Control of Cable-Driven Robots for Various Applications |
| Lecturer | Yaxiang Wang PhD Candidate, C3 Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Visiting Junior Research Fellow School of Engineering, Institute of Science Tokyo  |
| Time and date | 16:00-17:00, 16th October (Friday) |
| Venue | Hybrid (I3-304, Ishikawadai, Ookayama Campus, Science Tokyo / Zoom) |
| Registration | Register your information via Google form. |
| Charge | Free |
| Abstract | Cable-Driven Robots (CDRs) represent a class of mechanism in which the actuating forces are transmitted through cables rather than on-board motors. This feature potentially provides advantages such as large workspace, high payload-to-weight ratio, low inertia and high dynamic performance, which lead to applications in large-scale applications such as construction, logistics or additive manufacturing. In addition, the flexible cables can be used with soft materials to create various novel mechanisms, such as continuum or inflatable CDRs. However, the unilateral actuation in cables creates challenging problems in the analysis of the CDRs, including design, dynamics, control and workspace analysis. This lecture will introduce selected research work from the C3 Robotics Laboratory led by Prof. Darwin Lau, from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Some novel types of CDRs for different applications with their associated theoretical work will be demonstrated, including reconfigurable thrustered CDPRs (RT-CDPRs), dual-stage CDPR with soft backbone for large-scale bored pile airlifting, extremely deformable CDPRs, cable-driven continuum robots and inflatable cable-driven robots. |