the design method for the observer using the Riccati equation is explained. A discrete-time sliding-mode controller based on the proposed observer is designed and tested on a laboratory-type ...

Abstract: For many robot operations force control is needed, but force sensors may be expensive and add mass to the system. An alternative is to use the motor torques, though friction causes large ...

When ninth grader Tyson Duran was asked to build a minotaur prop for Vista School’s theater production, he didn’t just make a costume — he engineered a towering animatronic minotaur.

TransDigm Group Incorporated ("TransDigm") (NYSE: TDG) and Servotronics, Inc. ("Servotronics") (NYSE American: SVT) today announced a definitive merger agreement providing for Servotronics to become ...