Aerial manipulation is a growing field of research, and multirotors with attached arm manipulator have shown practical utility in contact-based inspection. However, theses coupled platforms limit the ...

This paper presents a practical adaptive sliding-mode control (PASMC) scheme and then applies it to an articulated robot manipulator. An adaptive law is newly-developed in the adaptive sliding-mode ...

A Twilight Zone-style premise is spun into an entertaining what’s-going-on thriller in Brick, Philip Koch’s tale of a couple who find themselves entombed in their apartment by a black brick ...