著者
山田 学 富塚 誠義
出版者
The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
雑誌
計測自動制御学会論文集 (ISSN:04534654)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.45, no.2, pp.99-104, 2009-02-28 (Released:2011-11-02)
参考文献数
22
被引用文献数
6 3

This paper considers the problem of controlling both the planar position and orientation of an underactuated airship with a reduced number of actuators. The airship is a nonholonomic system described by a set of nonlinear equations. A smooth and time-varying coordinate transformation is utilized to reduce the stabilization problem of the airship to that of a simple linear time-invariant system. A new feedback controller is presented for obtaining global exponential stabilization of both the position and orientation of an underactuated airship. The proposed design method is simple and straightforward. Some flight experiments are performed to validate the effectiveness of the proposed controller.
著者
杉山 将史 池田 啓祐 金田 翼 甲斐 義弘 富塚 誠義
出版者
一般社団法人 日本機械学会
雑誌
日本機械学会論文集 (ISSN:21879761)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.83, no.856, pp.17-00279-17-00279, 2017 (Released:2017-12-25)
参考文献数
14
被引用文献数
4

When developing rehabilitation assist suits, safety consideration for patients is crucial. Computer-aided control techniques can improve their safety. However, when the computer breaks down, the assist suit may be dangerous for the user because of its unintentional motion. Therefore, assist suits with hardware-based safety devices are desired to guarantee safety even when the computers do not operate properly. In this paper, we present a new rehabilitation assist suit equipped with a velocity-based safety device and a torque limiter. The assist suit assists a patient's knee joint. The velocity-based safety device switches off the assist suit's motor if it detects an unexpected high joint angular velocity. The torque limiter cuts off the torque transmission if it detects an unexpected high joint torque. These safety devices will work even when the computer breaks down, because they consist of only passive mechanical components without actuators, controllers, or batteries. Firstly, we describe the features of the assist suit with the safety devices. Secondly, we introduce the structure of the assist suit. Thirdly, we explain the structure and mechanism of the velocity-based safety device. Fourthly, we show the prototype assist suit that we have developed. Finally, we present experimental results to verify the effectiveness of the velocity-based safety device installed on the developed assist suit.