Mechanical Engineering / Makina Mühendisliği

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    A New Objective Function for Obstacle Avoidance by Redundant Service Robot Arms
    (SAGE Publications Inc., 2016) Dede, Mehmet İsmet Can; Maaroof, Omar W.; Tatlıcıoglu, Enver
    The performance of task-space tracking control of kinematically redundant robots regulating self-motion to ensure obstacle avoidance is studied and discussed. As the subtask objective, the links of the kinematically redundant assistive robot should avoid any collisions with the patient that is being assisted. The shortcomings of the obstacle avoidance algorithms are discussed and a new obstacle avoidance algorithm is proposed. The performance of the proposed algorithm is validated with tests that were carried out using the virtual model of a seven degrees-offreedom robot arm. The test results indicate that the developed controller for the robot manipulator is successful in both accomplishing the main-task and the sub-task objectives.
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    Function Generation With Two Loop Mechanisms Using Decomposition and Correction Method
    (Elsevier, 2017) Kiper, Gökhan; Dede, Mehmet İsmet Can; Maaroof, Omar W.; Özkahya, Merve
    Method of decomposition has been successfully applied to function generation with multi-loop mechanisms. For a two-loop mechanism, a function y = f(x) can be decomposed into two as w = g(x) and y = h(w) = h(g(x)) = f(x). This study makes use of the method of decomposition for two-loop mechanisms, where the errors from each loop are forced to match each other. In the first loop, which includes the input of the mechanism, the decomposed function (g) is generated and the resulting structural error is determined. Then, for the second loop, the desired output of the function (f) is considered as an input and the structural error of the decomposed function (g) is determined. By matching the obtained structural errors, the final error in the output of the mechanism is reduced. Three different correction methods are proposed. The first method has three precision points per loop, while the second method has four. In the third method, the extrema of the errors from both loops are matched. The methods are applied to a Watt II type planar six-bar linkage for demonstration. Several numerical examples are worked out and the results are compared with the results in the literature.
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    Alternating Error Effects on Decomposition Method in Function Generation Synthesis
    (Springer Verlag, 2017) Maaroof, Omar W.; Dede, Mehmet Ismet Can; Kiper, Gokhan
    In approximate function generation synthesis methods, error between the desired function's output and designed mechanism's output oscillate about zero error while crossing the zero error margin at precision points. The common goal of these methods is to minimize the error within the selected working region of the mechanism. For mechanisms like Bennett overconstrained six-revolute jointed linkages that have relatively large number of construction parameters, it is a difficult task to solve for them at once. Decomposition method enables to divide such linkages into two loops and independently solve for each loop with less construction parameters. Although some approximation methods are proven to produce smaller errors than others for a single-loop synthesis, in this work, it is shown that smaller errors are not guaranteed for a certain method when used along with decomposition method. Numerical examples indicate that in decomposition method, more attention should be given to the alternation of the error of each decomposed mechanism, rather than the approximation method used.