http://scitation.aip.org/ J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam.: All Topics http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005436 Xian-Zhi Jiang, Xin-Han Huang, Cai-Hua Xiong, Rong-Lei Sun, and You-Lun Xiong<br/> The joint of the upper limb rehabilitation robot, which is designed and built in our lab, is driven by pneumatic muscles (PMs) in an opposing pair configuration. Each PM drives the robotic joint through a steel wire with a flexible sleeve and a tension device, which causes delay and various friction ... [J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. 7, 024502 (2012)] published Mon Jan 9, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005473 Tak Kit Lau and Yun-hui Liu<br/> The perplexing cross-coupled responses between the control axes on hingeless helicopters have puzzled researchers for years. Unlike previous studies, which introduced a physically meaningless phase-lag to account for the cross-couplings, this paper proposes a new method to relate both on-axis and of ... [J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. 7, 024501 (2012)] published Fri Jan 6, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005462 Matthew Millard, John McPhee, and Eric Kubica<br/> Humans use carefully chosen step locations to restore their balance during locomotion and in response to perturbations. Understanding the relationship between foot placement and balance restoration is key to developing useful dynamic human balance diagnostic tests and balance rehabilitation treatmen ... [J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. 7, 021015 (2012)] published Thu Jan 26, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005236 Cedric Lopez, Francois Malburet, and Andre Barraco<br/> This paper studies problematic of a mechanical system composed of different coupled parts submitted to a high speed shock and proposes analysis of anti vibratory passive and active methods based on an experimental and theoretical coupled approach. After a shock, different parts of the system oscilla ... [J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. 7, 021014 (2012)] published Tue Jan 17, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005438 Lars Mikelsons and Thorsten Brandt<br/> Real-time control often requires process models that can be solved adequately fast on prescribed control hardware. One class of applications is model predictive control, which can be considered as one of the most powerful control techniques. However, for real-time control of systems with fast dynami ... [J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. 7, 021013 (2012)] published Tue Jan 10, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005437 R. Shabani, S. Tariverdilo, and H. Salarieh<br/> Variational principle is used to derive the nonlinear response of the floating roof of cylindrical liquid storage tanks due to harmonic base excitations. The formulation accounts for nonlinearity due to large deflections of the floating roof. The derived nonlinear governing equation for the sloshing ... [J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. 7, 021012 (2012)] published Tue Jan 10, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005435 Najib Kacem, Sebastien Baguet, Sebastien Hentz, and Regis Dufour<br/> In order to compensate for the loss of performance when scaling resonant sensors down to NEMS, a complete analytical model, including all main sources of nonlinearities, is presented as a predictive tool for the dynamic behavior of clamped-clamped nanoresonators electrostatically actuated. The nonli ... [J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. 7, 021011 (2012)] published Mon Jan 9, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005323 Mohammad Pourmahmood Aghababa<br/> This paper concerns the problem of stabilization of uncertain fractional-order chaotic systems in finite time. On the basis of fractional Lyapunov stability theory, a robust finite-time fractional controller is introduced to control chaos of fractional-order chaotic systems in the presence of system ... [J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. 7, 021010 (2012)] published Mon Jan 9, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005322 Islam Boussaada<br/> The problem of local linearizability of the planar linear center perturbed by cubic non- linearities in all generalities on the system parameters (14 parameters) is far from being solved. The synchronization problem (as noted in Pikovsky, A., Rosenblum, M., and Kurths, J., 2003, Synchronization: A U ... [J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. 7, 021009 (2012)] published Mon Jan 9, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005237 Karim Sherif, Hans Irschik, and Wolfgang Witteveen<br/> In multibody dynamics, the flexibility effects of each body are captured by using a linear combination of elastic mode shapes. If a co-rotational and co-translating frame of reference is used together with eigenvectors of the unconstraint body, which are free-surface modes, some spatial integrals in ... [J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. 7, 021008 (2012)] published Fri Jan 6, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005080 Vijay Kumar and Jeffrey F. Rhoads<br/> Bistable microsystems have drawn considerable interest from the MEMS/NEMS research community not only due to their broad applicability in commercial applications, such as switching, but also because of the rich dynamic behavior they commonly exhibit. While a number of prior investigations have studi ... [J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. 7, 021007 (2012)] published Fri Jan 6, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005467 S. V. Shah, S. K. Saha, and J. K. Dutt<br/> Euler angles describe rotations of a rigid body in three-dimensional Cartesian space, as can be obtained by, say, a spherical joint. The rotation carried out by a spherical joint can also be expressed by using three intersecting revolute joints that can be described using the popular Denavit-Hartenb ... [J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. 7, 021006 (2012)] published Fri Jan 6, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005464 Om P. Agrawal, M. Mehedi Hasan, and X. W. Tangpong<br/> Fractional derivatives (FDs) or derivatives of arbitrary order have been used in many applications, and it is envisioned that in the future they will appear in many functional minimization problems of practical interest. Since fractional derivatives have such properties as being non-local, it can be ... [J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. 7, 021005 (2012)] published Fri Jan 6, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005463 Ruqiang Yan and Robert X. Gao<br/> This paper presents a local geometric projection (LGP)-based noise reduction technique for vibration signal analysis in rolling bearings. LGP is a nonlinear filtering technique that reconstructs one dimensional time series in a high-dimensional phase space using time-delayed coordinates based on the ... [J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. 7, 021004 (2012)] published Fri Jan 6, 2012. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005238 Javier Garcia de Jalon, Alfonso Callejo, and Andres F. Hidalgo<br/> According to a recent paper (Laulusa and Bauchau, 2008, Review of Classical Approaches for Constraint Enforcement in Multibody Systems, ASME J. Comput. Nonlinear Dyn., 3(1), 011004), Maggi's formulation is a simple and stable way to solve the dynamic equations of constrained multibody systems. Among ... [J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. 7, 021003 (2011)] published Thu Dec 22, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4005081 Venkatesh Deshmukh<br/> A constructive algorithm using Chebyshev spectral collocation is proposed for computing trustworthy approximate solutions of linear and weakly nonlinear delayed partial differential equations or initial boundary value problems, with continuous and bounded coefficients. The boundary conditions are as ... [J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. 7, 021002 (2011)] published Thu Dec 22, 2011. http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1115/1.4004884 Yu Guo and Albert C. J. Luo<br/> In this paper, complex motions of a ball in the horizontal impact pair with a periodic excitation are studied analytically using the theory of discontinuous dynamical system. Analytical conditions for motion switching caused by impacts are developed, and generic mapping structures are introduced to ... [J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. 7, 021001 (2011)] published Thu Dec 22, 2011.