Modern automation, digitalization, virtualization, and intelligent production impose new criteria and approaches to process management. The operation and performance of any system and device depend on how it is manage...
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The sparrow search algorithm (SSA) is a swarm intelligence algorithm with strong search ability and fast convergence, but it may converge early and fall into local extremes in evolution. To address these problems, an ...
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Highly reflective materials, owing to their reflective characteristics, pose challenges in imaging microdefects under conventional lighting, resulting in a substantial number of missed detections. This article present...
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Overhead bare wire is not protected by insulating sheaths, and is prone to safety accidents. It is of great practical significance to use coating robots to insulate bare wires. During the robotic coating operation, th...
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Endovascular interventions encompassing highly tortuous vessels would benefit from robotically steerable guidewires, which exhibit high dexterity. Existing studies on tendon-driven robotically steerable guidewires mai...
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(数字)9798331599003
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(纸本)9798331599010
Endovascular interventions encompassing highly tortuous vessels would benefit from robotically steerable guidewires, which exhibit high dexterity. Existing studies on tendon-driven robotically steerable guidewires mainly employ rotation motion of the guidewire from the proximal end in an attempt to vary the bending plane of the steerable tip. While this strategy has contributed towards enhanced steerability of the guidewire, rotation from the proximal end of the guidewire often causes issues such as snapping due to non-uniform propagation of the rotation motion. This paper introduces the design of a guidewire capable of achieving rotation motion at the distal end by utilizing a mechanism, which converts linear motion into rotation motion. The proposed robot consists of two tubes: the inner tube with a notched section capable of bending, and an outer tube with a helical guide. The two tubes are coupled together such that the linear motion of the outer tube facilitates the rotation motion of the inner tube. We present the design of the robot and experimentally investigate the effects of the design parameters on the robot behavior. Modeling of the kinematic behavior of the system to estimate the rotation and bending of the robot is presented and validated. The derived models performed satisfactorily: The bending model exhibited an RMSE-value of $2.77 ~\mathrm{m}^{-1}$ curvature, which corresponds to 8.66 % of the maximum output curvature, for the inner tube rotation angle of 150°. For the outer tube consisting of a helical guide with a pitch angle of 80°, the rotation model exhibited an RMSE-value of 9.19° inner tube rotation angle, which corresponds to 4.38 % of the maximum inner tube rotation angle.
Accurate tobacco plant detection is crucial for effective agricultural management strategies. Due to the challenges posed by high plant variability, adverse lighting conditions, and occlusions, existing machine learni...
Accurate tobacco plant detection is crucial for effective agricultural management strategies. Due to the challenges posed by high plant variability, adverse lighting conditions, and occlusions, existing machine learning algorithms and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have struggled to achieve satisfactory detection accuracy under real-world scenarios. This paper employs YOLOv8, a state-of-the-art object detection algorithm, to reliably detect tobacco plants. A comprehensive evaluation and benchmark of 12 state-of-the-art YOLO object detection algorithms including the YOLOv8, is established for tobacco detection. YOLOv8 demonstrates remarkable test accuracy of 96.4compared to YOLOv5 and YOLOv7. Performance comparisons with YOLOv5 and YOLOv7, two ancestor algorithms, using test images further solidify YOLOv8’s superior detection capabilities for tobacco plants. YOLOv8’s real-time object detection ability renders it an ideal solution for mobile and embedded devices, opening new possibilities for on-the-go agricultural management.
Traditional image stitching focuses on a single panorama frame without considering the spatial-temporal consistency in videos. The straightforward image stitching approach will cause temporal flcking and color inconst...
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The stiffness analysis of tendon-driven continuum robots is highly demanded in human-robot interaction applications. Although pretension is a common approach to enhance the stiffness of these robots with tendon-displa...
The stiffness analysis of tendon-driven continuum robots is highly demanded in human-robot interaction applications. Although pretension is a common approach to enhance the stiffness of these robots with tendon-displacement-controlled strategies, investigating and analyzing the relationship between stiffness and pretension is challenging. To address this, we proposed a novel Cosserat rod-based model for tendon-driven continuum robots, which takes into account both tendon displacement and tendon elasticity constraints. Through simulation tests, we established the relationship between stiffness analysis and the pretension effect based on the proposed methods.
In this paper we derive Hamel equations for the motion of nonholonomic systems subject to inequality constraints in quasivelocities. As examples, the vertical rolling disk hitting a wall and the Chaplygin sleigh with ...
In this paper we derive Hamel equations for the motion of nonholonomic systems subject to inequality constraints in quasivelocities. As examples, the vertical rolling disk hitting a wall and the Chaplygin sleigh with a knife edge constraint hitting a circular table are shown to illustrate the theoretical results.
Minimally invasive surgery is a promising application for continuum robots. The flexibility of continuum robotic surgical tools has the potential to minimize patient trauma. However, the flexibility makes shape estima...
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ISBN:
(数字)9798331599003
ISBN:
(纸本)9798331599010
Minimally invasive surgery is a promising application for continuum robots. The flexibility of continuum robotic surgical tools has the potential to minimize patient trauma. However, the flexibility makes shape estimation for continuum robots challenging. Several methods for shape estimation of continuum robots have been proposed, including imaging, optical sensing, magnetic sensing, and resistive sensing. The resistive sensing method involves incorporating a piezoresistive material into the robot which changes its resistance in response to strain. From the strain in the sensor, the shape of the robot can be estimated. In this paper, we utilize the direct laser writing (DLW) method to create piezoresistive carbonized traces on a polyimide (PI) substrate. DLW has been used in the past to create low-cost, flexible strain sensors in a single-step process, using the same machinery that is often used to fabricate continuum robots for surgical applications. We integrated DLW strain sensors onto three separate meso-scale continuum robotic joints. The sensors detected the strain on the robot with gauge factors ranging from 0.437 to 2.78. In another experiment, the resistances in the strain sensors were used to estimate the deflection angles of the joints, achieving 2.77° to 5.21° RMSE.
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