Special Issue of Applied Mechanics Reviews Explores Mechanisms, Machines and Robots

The ASME journal Applied Mechanics Reviews recently published a special issue for educators, researchers and practitioners who are interested in mechanisms, machines and robots. The special issue is available online free-of-charge on The ASME Digital Collection until May 1.

The issue, which was developed in conjunction with the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, features five comprehensive, state-of-the-art review articles that highlight both basic and applied research and offer commentary on the existing literature related to such topics as robot dynamics, parallel mechanisms, mechanism design, flying robots, and human-robot interaction. The articles are accompanied by independent expert discussions and author responses that provide additional viewpoints and ideas for future research projects.

The review articles in this special issue include “A Review of Propulsion, Power, and Control Architectures for Insect-Scale Flapping-Wing Vehicles,” by E. Farrell Helbling and Robert J. Wood, which focuses on actuation, energy, and power requirements for the control of flapping-wing micro-aerial vehicles, and “Redundancy in Parallel Mechanisms: A Review,” by Clément Gosselin and Louis-Thomas Schreiber, which presents an introduction to redundancy in the synthesis of parallel mechanisms.

The issue also features “Geometric Algorithms for Robot Dynamics: A Tutorial Review,” by Frank C. Park, Beobkyoon Kim, Cheongjae Jang and Jisoo Hong, an examination of how the coordinate-free approaches of differential geometry can be used to formulate equations of motion for multibody systems; “A Review of Intent Detection, Arbitration, and Communication Aspects of Shared Control for Physical Human-Robot Interaction” by Dylan P. Losey, Craig G. McDonald, Edoardo Battaglia and Marcia K. O'Malley, a look at applications in areas such as healthcare where humans and robots must work together to perform physical tasks; and “A Review of Thickness-Accommodation Techniques in Origami-Inspired Engineering” by Robert J. Lang, Kyler A. Tolman, Erica B. Crampton, Spencer P. Magleby and Larry L. Howell, a highly visual review of recent advances in origami-inspired mechanism design and fabrication.

Visit The ASME Digital Collection now to read the special issue of Applied Mechanics Reviews. To learn more about the ASME Journals Program, visit https://journaltool.asme.org.