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Adaptive Control for Nonlinear Uncertain Systems with Actuator Amplitude and Rate Saturation Constraints Alexander Leonessa and Yannick Morel Departement of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida 32816 aleo@mail.ucf.com     ymorel@gmail.com   Control of a 9-DoF Wheelchair-Mounted Robotic Arm System Redwan Alqasemi and Rajiv Dubey University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Ave, ENB 118 Tampa, FL 33620 +1(813)974-2280 ralqasemi@gmail.com     dubey@eng.usf.edu   Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of a Microgripper Device Jose A. Martinez and Roberto R. Panepucci Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Florida International University 10555 West Flagler Street Miami, Florida 33174 +1(305)348-1344 Jose.Martinez1@fiu.edu     panepucc@fiu.edu   Determination of Impact Force and Crush Energy Using Abductive Networks Oren Masory Department of Mechanical Engineering Florida Atlantic University 777 Glades Rd. Boca Raton, FL 33431 masoryo@fau.edu   Nicolas Putod IFMA – Institut Francais DeMechanique Advancee Les Cezeaux BP 265 63175 Aubiere Cedex, France Nicolas.Putod@ifma.fr   A Double Claw Robotic End-Effector Design Redwan Alqasemi, Sebastian Mahler, Rajiv Dubey University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Ave, ENB 118 Tampa, FL 33620 +1(813)974-2280 ralqasemi@gmail.com     seabassm@gmail.com     dubey@eng.usf.edu   Evaluating the Fault Tolerance of a Parallel Manipulator Based on Relative Manipulability Indices Hyun Geun Yu and Rodney G. Roberts Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32310-6046 hyun@eng.fsu.edu     rroberts@eng.fsu.edu   Kinematic Analysis of a Planar Tensegrity Mechanism Jahan Bayat and Carl D. Crane III Center for Intelligent Machines and Robotics University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 +1(352)392-9461 bayat@ufl.edu     ccrane@ufl.edu   Linkage-Based Prosthetic Fingertips: Stability Analysis Issa A. Ramirez and Craig P. Lusk Department of Mechanical Engineering University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Avenue Tampa, FL 33620 +1(813)974-1394 issaramirez@gmail.com clusk2@eng.usf.edu   Murray E. Maitland Department of Rehabilitation Medicine University of Washington 1959 NE Pacific Street, Suite CC-902L Seattle, Washington 98195-6490 +1(813)974-2011 mmaitlan@u.washington.edu   A Metric for Planar Displacements Venkatesh Venkataramanujam and Pierre Larochelle Robotics and Spatial Systems Laboratory Florida Institute of Technology Melbourne, FL 32901 vvenkata@fit.edu     pierrel@fit.edu   Multi Robot Systems: The EagleKnights/RoboBulls Small-Size League RoboCup Architecture Alfredo Weitzenfeld Computer Science and Engineering Department University of South Florida Tampa, Florida 33620-5399 +1(813)974-3652 aweitzen@cse.usf.edu   A Multithreaded Implementation of Assist Functions to Control a Virtual Reality Model of a 6-DoF Robot Arm for Rehabilitation Applications Eduardo J. Veras, Ramya Swaminathan, Rajiv Dubey University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Ave Tampa, FL 33620 +1(813)974-2280 everasjo@eng.usf.edu     rswamina@eng.usf.edu     dubey@eng.usf.edu   Position Tracking Performance of a Redundant Teleoperation System Mehmet Ismet Can Dede and Sabri Tosunoglu Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Florida International University Miami, Florida 33174 +1(305)348-6841 cdede002@fiu.edu   Proposed Design of a Triped Robot Daniel Kamerling and Pierre Larochelle Florida Institute of Technology 150 West University Blvd. Melbourne, Florida 32901-6975 daniel.kamerling@gmail.com     pierrel@fit.com   Robotic Arm Manipulator Control for SG5-UT Hussain Sultan and Eric M. Schwartz Machine Intelligence Laboratory University of Florida MAEB 325, Building 720 Gainesville, FL 32611-6300 hussainz@ufl.edu     ems@mil.ufl.edu   TYROL: Evolution of a 10-Axis Biped Robot Vishnu Madadi and Sabri Tosunoglu Department of Mechanical Engineering Florida International University 10555 West Flagler Street Miami, Florida 33174 +1(305)348-1091 Vishnu.Madadi@fiu.edu     Sabri.Tosunoglu@fiu.edu   Using the Wave Variable Method for a Human-Machine Haptic Interface in the Presence of Time Delay Marc Alise and Rodney G. Roberts Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32310-6046 alise@eng.fsu.edu     rroberts@eng.fsu.edu   Daniel W. Repperger Air Force Research Laboratory Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Dayton, Ohio 45433-7022 Daniel.Repperger@wpafb.af.mil   Xanthus: Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robot Adrian Arbide, Vishnu Madadi, Sabri Tosunoglu Department of Mechanical Engineering Florida International University 10555 West Flagler Street Miami, Florida 33174 +1(305)348-6841 Adrian.Arbide@fiu.edu     Vishnu.Madadi@fiu.edu