‘Something simple and striking, if not amusing’ – the Freedom 7 special exhibition at the Science Museum, 1965 by Dr Jean-Baptiste Gouyon

Subjects: “…Freedom 7…”
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White Supremacy, Lynchings, and Thomas Crawford’s <em>Statue of Freedom</em> by Vivien Green Fryd

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A novel compliant surgical robot: Preliminary design analysis by Akim Kapsalyamov, Shahid Hussain, Prashant K. Jamwal

“…Based on the requirements of MIS, a compliant, seven- degrees of freedom (7-DOF) pneumatically actuated mechanism is designed. …”
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Influence of yawing force frequency on angular motion and ballistic characteristics of a dual-spin projectile by Yu Wang, Jie Cheng, Ji-yan Yu, Xiao-ming Wang

“…In order to investigate the influence of yawing forces on angular motion, a theoretical solution of the total yaw angle function with the cyclical yawing forces is deduced utilizing the 7 degrees of freedom (7-DOF) model designed for this calculation. …”
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Movement Characteristics of a Dual-Spin Guided Projectile Subjected to a Lateral Impulse by Zhiwei Yang, Liangming Wang, Jianwei Chen

“…To guide the overall design of the projectile and the control system, a linear motion model of the projectile that was subjected to a lateral impulse was obtained based on a full nonlinear seven-degree-of-freedom (7-DOF) dynamic model. The trajectory correction process of a lateral impulse was divided into two stages. …”
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Trajectory Planning of 7-DOF Space Manipulator for Minimizing Base Disturbance by Qiang Zhang, Lan Wang, Dongsheng Zhou

“…For planning trajectories of the space manipulator with 7 degrees of freedom (7-DOF), simulated annealing particle swarm optimization (SAPSO) algorithm is presented in the paper. …”
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Fast Fractional-Order Terminal Sliding Mode Control for Seven-Axis Robot Manipulator by Jie Wang, Min Cheol Lee, Jae Hyung Kim, Hyun Hee Kim

“…This paper proposes a novel controller, fast fractional-order terminal sliding mode control (FFOTSMC), for a seven-degree-of-freedom (7-DOF) robot manipulator with tracking control. …”
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Biomechanical design and control of an eight DOF human lower extremity rehabilitation exoskeleton robot by S.K. Hasan, Anoop K. Dhingra

“…Among the 8 degrees of freedom, 7 are actively actuated and 1 is passively actuated. …”
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Effects of an electric field on white sharks: in situ testing of an electric deterrent. by Charlie Huveneers, Paul J Rogers, Jayson M Semmens, Crystal Beckmann, Alison A Kock, Brad Page, Simon D Goldsworthy

“…The present study tested the effects of the Shark Shield Freedom7™ electric deterrent on (1) the behaviour of 18 white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) near a static bait, and (2) the rates of attacks on a towed seal decoy. …”
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Efficient Similarity Point Set Registration by Transformation Decomposition by Chen Wang, Xinrong Chen, Manning Wang

“…Therefore, seven-Degrees of Freedom (7-DoF) similarity transformation is a big challenge for BnB. …”
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A comparative study of the unscented Kalman filter and particle filter estimation methods for the measurement of the road adhesion coefficient by G. Qi, X. Fan, H. Li

“…With a focus on the problems of interference uncertainty and system nonlinearity in the estimation of the road adhesion coefficient, this work adopts a vehicle model with 7 degrees of freedom (7-DOF) and the Dugoff tire model and uses these models to estimate the road adhesion coefficient in real time based on the particle filter (PF) algorithm. …”
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Lateral Stability Analysis of 4WID Electric Vehicle Based on Sliding Mode Control and Optimal Distribution Torque Strategy by Hongwei Wang, Jie Han, Haotian Zhang

“…First, a seven-degree-of-freedom (7DOF) 4WID electric vehicle model is established. …”
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Analysis of Singular Configuration of Robotic Manipulators by Xinglei Zhang, Binghui Fan, Chuanjiang Wang, Xiaolin Cheng

“…Then, the proposed method was applied to a seven-degree-of-freedom (7-DOF) serial manipulator and a planar 5R parallel manipulator. …”
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AI-Based Posture Control Algorithm for a 7-DOF Robot Manipulator by Cheonghwa Lee, Dawn An

“…In this paper, we propose a new method that can replace both the FK and IK equations of a seven-degrees-of-freedom (7-DOF) robot manipulator. This method is based on reinforcement learning (RL) and artificial neural networks (ANN) for supervised learning (SL). …”
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Pseudospectral Convex Programming for Free-Floating Space Manipulator Path Planning by Danyi Li, Yinkang Li, Xu Liu, Bin Yang, Xuxing Huang, Yong Yang, Bingheng Wang, Shuang Li

“…To efficiently plan the point-to-point path for a 7-degrees-of-freedom (7-DOF) free-floating space manipulator system, a path planning method based on Legendre pseudospectral convex programming (LPCP) is proposed. …”
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Fast Fractional-Order Terminal Sliding Mode Control With RBFNN Based Sliding Perturbation Observer for 7-DOF Robot Manipulator by Wang Jie, Lee Min Cheol, Kim Jaehyung, Kim Hyun Hee

“…It aims to control a seven-degree-of-freedom (7-DOF) robot manipulator. The new perturbation estimator applies the data-driven method RBFNN to compensate for the estimation error in the conventional SPO for the first time. …”
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Maximum Correntropy Square-Root Cubature Kalman Filter with State Estimation for Distributed Drive Electric Vehicles by Pingshu Ge, Ce Zhang, Tao Zhang, Lie Guo, Qingyang Xiang

“…To address such problems, this paper uses the square-root cubature Kalman filter with the maximum correlation entropy criterion (MCSRCKF), establishing a seven degrees of freedom (7-DOF) nonlinear distributed vehicle dynamics model for accurately estimating longitudinal vehicle speed, lateral vehicle speed, yaw rate, and wheel rotation angular velocity using low-cost sensor signals. …”
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Torque coordinated control of the through-the-road (TTR) 4-wheel-drive (4WD) hybrid vehicle under extreme road conditions by Likang Fan, Jun Wang, Meng Deng, Yiqiang Peng, Xiuchao Bao, Hongqian Wei

“…Firstly, the vehicle dynamic model with seven degrees of freedom (7-DOF) is used to offline extract torque distribution rules (Offline-ETDR), and the online MPC feedback (Online-MPCF) is utilized to compensate the extra torque requirements for the poor effect under the extreme conditions. …”
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Characterization of continuum robot arms under reinforcement learning and derived improvements by Ryota Morimoto, Masahiro Ikeda, Ryuma Niiyama, Yasuo Kuniyoshi

“…In this study, we examined the advantages of a continuum robot arm as compared to a typical and rigid seven-degree-of-freedom (7-DoF) robot manipulator in terms of performing various tasks through reinforcement learning. …”
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The Dexterity Capability Map for a Seven-Degree-of-Freedom Manipulator by Yuan Quan, Chong Zhao, Congmin Lv, Ke Wang, Yanlin Zhou

“…On this basis, for a seven-degree-of-freedom (7-DOF) redundant manipulator, it is very meaningful to study how to give full play to its redundant characteristics to achieve more dexterous grasping. …”
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