Robust multimodal capacitive sensors can significantly enhance human-robot collaboration (HRC) across sectors such as healthcare, daily life support, and manufacturing. Despite this potential, achieving high-precision...
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Robust multimodal capacitive sensors can significantly enhance human-robot collaboration (HRC) across sectors such as healthcare, daily life support, and manufacturing. Despite this potential, achieving high-precision 3D recognition of fingertip movements using capacitive sensors remains challenging. This study demonstrates multimodal capacitive sensors for proximity, pressure, and permittivity sensing in HRC applications. The goal is to accurately detect subtle fingertip movements, enabling precise control of a robotic arm in 3D space. The circular capacitive sensors, made from a carbon nanotube-paper composite (CPC), generate a high electric field and proximity. These sensors are integrated into two types of controllers: a desktop controller for intuitive and robust control, and a handheld controller for enhanced portability. An algorithm is presented for accurate 3D fingertip tracking under scenarios involving wet- and gloved hands, to ensure a reliable interface in harsh environments. Additionally, the use of multimodal sensors integrated into robot fingers is demonstrated to detect pressure and permittivity changes, allowing the operator to identify objects. Two tasks of moving objects and distinguishing alcohol from water demonstrate the system's effectiveness for industrial applications, such as efficient HRC, hazardous material inspection, and remote work.
With the persistent exploration of brain science, brain-computer interfaces (BCI) have been developed and applied in various fields in recent years. Lower-limb rehabilitation exoskeleton controlsystems based on BCI a...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9798350387544;9798350387537
With the persistent exploration of brain science, brain-computer interfaces (BCI) have been developed and applied in various fields in recent years. Lower-limb rehabilitation exoskeleton controlsystems based on BCI achieve better effects than traditional rehabilitation methods. However, controlsystems based on motor imagery (MI) signals are still difficult to popularize because of low online recognition rate, high latency and unstable control. In this paper, a lower-limb exoskeleton controlsystem based on multiple segments decoding is proposed, which can support the subject to complete the movement of raising unilateral leg tasks. First, the MI decoder is trained by the data collected offline. The online controlsystem wirelessly connects the EEG cap with the lower-limb exoskeleton, transmits the MI signal in real-time for online decoding, and controls the exoskeleton according to the decoded instructions, which a multi-segment decoding strategy is used to improve control accuracy and system robustness. The effectiveness of the proposed system is evaluated in the online experiment, which indicated that the system is efficient for walking rehabilitation training under various scenarios.
In view of the existing problems in rehabilitation training in China and the great potential of rehabilitation training robots based on Motor Imagery Brain Computer interface, this paper designs and develops a wearabl...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9789819770007;9789819770014
In view of the existing problems in rehabilitation training in China and the great potential of rehabilitation training robots based on Motor Imagery Brain Computer interface, this paper designs and develops a wearable knee rehabilitation training system based on Motor Imagery Brain Computer interface from the perspective of portability and low cost. The proposed knee rehabilitation training system can extract the patient's active rehabilitation intention through EEG signal, and complete the active and passive rehabilitation training of the knee joint through the knee exoskeleton, which can effectively overcome the problems of the traditional rehabilitation training system, such as high training cost, limited number of professional rehabilitation therapist, and low willingness of the patient's active training. A series of offline and online experiments verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed rehabilitation system. The development and application of this system is expected to provide a rehabilitation system with autonomous control, active rehabilitation and convenient wearing for patients with knee joint dysfunction, and effectively alleviate the problems existing in the current motor function rehabilitation training.
This paper presents a health monitoring system for steel structure buildings that combines embedded technology and wireless sensor networks (WSN). The system collects data on settlement, vibration acceleration, wind l...
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Urban Utilities, WCS Engineering and Optimatics pioneered an innovative sensor deployment optimization and prioritization decision-support platform to help prevent dry weather overflows resulting from pipe blockages. ...
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During long-term use, eddy current sensors may experience significant errors or even inaccuracies in their indication values due to aging or the influence of objective environments. Therefore, it is necessary to regul...
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During long-term use, eddy current sensors may experience significant errors or even inaccuracies in their indication values due to aging or the influence of objective environments. Therefore, it is necessary to regularly perform dynamic or static calibration based on the performance of the eddy current sensor to promptly identify and address any issues with the sensor. Currently, most eddy current sensors used in the industry are calibrated manually or semi-automatically, resulting in low calibration efficiency and accuracy. In response to the demand of the metrology department to improve the static calibration efficiency of eddy current sensors, a combination of stepper motors and grating feedback is used to measure the position of eddy current sensors during the calibration process. An integrated automatic calibration controlsystem for the dynamic and static characteristics of eddy current sensors is studied. The design of the calibration system includes the design of the actuator and the design of the controlsystem. Firstly, the overall structure of the controlsystem software is designed. The controlsystem mainly completes the control of the stepper motor and the measurement of sensor displacement, as well as the design of the data acquisition module and data storage module. Through experimental verification, the displacement control error of the static calibration device for eddy current sensors is less than 3 μm, and the accuracy meets the design requirements of 5 μm. The displacement measurement error is less than 3 μm, and the accuracy meets the design requirements of 3 μm. The voltage measurement accuracy reaches 0.1%, and the design meets the requirements of the design indicators. 2025 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
Simultaneous recordings of neural activity at massive scope, in the long term, and under bio-safety conditions, could provide crucial information, which helps in better understanding the operation mechanism of the bra...
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This study focuses on the critical aspect of interfacial heat transfer during the solidification process in metal casting, aiming to optimize these manufacturing processes. Fiber-optic sensors were employed to provide...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781510674073;9781510674066
This study focuses on the critical aspect of interfacial heat transfer during the solidification process in metal casting, aiming to optimize these manufacturing processes. Fiber-optic sensors were employed to provide continuous real-time monitoring of mold gaps and temperature profiles during the solidification of A356 aluminum in a permanent mold-casting environment. A specially designed mold system, constructed from unheated, uncoated tool steel, facilitated the seamless integration of these advanced fiber-optic sensors. One key technique used was the Extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometric (EFPI) sensor, which uniquely utilized molten metal as the second reflection interface for measuring mold gaps. This method yielded impressively accurate results, with a maximum error of just 2 mu m compared to physical measurements. Additionally, using the Rayleigh backscattering (RBS) technique, a stainless steel-encased fiber provided real-time temperature measurements with an impressive spatial resolution of 0.65 mm. The study demonstrates that combining high-resolution temperature profiles with gap evolution measurements significantly enhances our understanding of heat transfer dynamics at the mold-metal interface, proving particularly beneficial for optimizing complex-shaped castings and continuous casting processes. Furthermore, the capability to monitor the shape of the casting in real-time as it exits a continuous casting mold introduces a novel tool for quality control and process safety improvement by early detection of conditions that might lead to slab cracking and breakouts, ultimately enhancing overall process efficiency and reliability.
Artificial sensory systems with synergistic touch and pain perception hold substantial promise for environment interaction and human-robot communication. However, the realization of biological skin-like functional int...
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Artificial sensory systems with synergistic touch and pain perception hold substantial promise for environment interaction and human-robot communication. However, the realization of biological skin-like functional integration of sensors with sensitive touch and pain perception still remains a challenge. Here, a concept is proposed of suspended electronic skins enabling 3D deformation-mechanical contact interactions for achieving synergetic ultrasensitive touch and adjustable pain perception. The suspended sensory system can sensitively capture tiny touch stimuli as low as 0.02 Pa and actively perceive pain response with reliable 5200 cycles via 3D deformation and mechanical contact mechanism, respectively. Based on the touch-pain effect, a visualized feedback demo with miniaturized sensor arrays on artificial fingers is rationally designed to give a pain perception mapping on sharp surfaces. Furthermore, the capability is shown of the suspended electronic skin serving as a safe human-robot communication interface from active and passive view through a feedback controlsystem, demonstrating potential in bionic electronics and intelligent robotics. Suspended electronic skins that enable structural integration of high-sensitive touch and dynamic pain perception are rationally designed through 3D deformation-mechanical contact mechanism, which show potentials in friendly human-robot interaction for active feel and protect. image
A RISC-V based SoC (system on chip) with a configurable crankshaft position sensor (CPK) interface for an engine control unit (ECU) on a motorcycle is presented. The proposed SoC is the first SoC with RISC-V core for ...
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