Fabric cooling channels for twisted coiled actuators (TCAs) were recently proposed to achieve the required response times for motion assistance in a manner suitable for soft wearable robotic devices. While previous wo...
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(数字)9798350386523
ISBN:
(纸本)9798350386530
Fabric cooling channels for twisted coiled actuators (TCAs) were recently proposed to achieve the required response times for motion assistance in a manner suitable for soft wearable robotic devices. While previous work demonstrated that the fabric channel reduced the cooling time by 42% in comparison to the same TCA without the cooling channel, the TCAs were still not cooled quickly enough to support human motion. Therefore, in this paper, two variations to the channel are proposed to further reduce the cooling time of the TCAs. The variations include unsealing the inlet and adding vents along the length of the channel to take advantage of air entrainment and natural convection. While both variations reduced the cooling time on their own, when they were employed together there was a 34% reduction in cooling time compared to the original channel design (
$19.1 \pm 2.4\ \mathrm{s}$
vs.
$13.5 \pm 0.9\ \mathrm{s}, \mathrm{p} < 0.001$
). This decrease occurred without any significant differences in the stroke or heating time of the TCA. The modified channel was then compared to the TCA without the cooling apparatus and the cooling time was reduced by 57% (
$25.1 \pm 1.7\ \mathrm{s}$
vs.
$14.0 \pm 1.2\ \mathrm{s}, \mathrm{p} < 0.001)$
. This work advances the development of a cooling system for TCAs, making it suitable for soft wearable robotic devices by improving portability, and thereby enabling their use in wearable devices for rehabilitation applications.
Many spinal operations are performed using fluoroscopic guidance due to its excellent visualization of osseous structures and surgical instrumentation in real-time, however, its efficacy is conditional on accurate nee...
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(纸本)9781510685949
Many spinal operations are performed using fluoroscopic guidance due to its excellent visualization of osseous structures and surgical instrumentation in real-time, however, its efficacy is conditional on accurate needle placement. Image-guided surgical navigation systems allow for intraoperative and continuous localization of surgical tools with respect to patient anatomy, leading to significantly improved needle placement accuracy. Magnetic navigation systems require a field generator (FG) whose placement must be near the patient and may partially obstruct the x-ray beam, causing image artifacts and degraded image quality. Northern Digital Inc. has developed a radiolucent FG (RLFG) prototype to reduce image artifacts, however, the X-ray photon scatter interactions from the RLFG may reduce image contrast, add noise and decrease spatial resolution. These scatter interactions can be assessed in terms of the scatter-to-primary ratio (SPR) and its effect on image quality can be described using the modulation transfer function (MTF) and the generalized detective quantum efficiency (DQE). SPR measurements of a 20 cm water phantom and surgical table were taken with and without the RLFG using a slanted-edge technique as described by Garland and Cunningham, as well as the SPR measurements of the isolated RLFG and isolated water phantom. MTF and generalized DQE measurements of the imaging system were taken with and without the RLFG using the commercially available DQEPro (DQE Instruments, Ontario, Canada). SPR measurments demonstrated an 8 % average increase when the RLFG was added underneath the surgical table, and the SPR of the water phantom was on average 5 times larger than the SPR of the RLFG. Therefore, the photon scatter interactions within the RLFG would likely cause minimal image quality deterioration, especially in comparison to a patient-representing water phantom. Introducing the RLFG in the imaging system demonstrates no practically significant difference in MT
Understanding neuronal structure and function is essential to studying the human brain. The goal of this project was to create a model of human brain neurons that accurately reflects neuronal function, energy consumpt...
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Attitudes and concerns related to privacy are not homogeneous, but instead differ based on the individual and context at hand. Understanding how these attitudes and concerns vary could inform product, service, and pol...
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We report a high-energy Tm-doped chirped-pulse-amplification fiber laser system seeded by dissipative solitons at 1902 nm. The system provides output pulses with a pulse energy of 120 nJ and a pulse duration of 940 fs...
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In the face of the deep learning model's vulnerability to domain shift, source-free domain adaptation (SFDA) methods have been proposed to adapt models to new, unseen target domains without requiring access to sou...
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Object segmentation is one of the main activities for the robot to create a sense of its environment. This task is a precursor to other activities, such as autonomous navigation in a given environment. Through sensors...
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ISBN:
(数字)9798331538606
ISBN:
(纸本)9798331538613
Object segmentation is one of the main activities for the robot to create a sense of its environment. This task is a precursor to other activities, such as autonomous navigation in a given environment. Through sensors such as LiDAR, it's possible to generate high-resolution three-dimensional maps of the environment in which the robot is located, thus enabling their interpretation so that tasks such as object segmentation can be performed. In this article, the DBSCAN and HDBSCAN unsupervised clustering methods are explored. Results in a simulated environment in Gazebo together with Robot Operating System ROS framework for capturing sensory data from LiDAR Livox Mid-70 coupled to a mobile robot show the performance of such techniques through comparisons.
This research focuses on the development of a method utilizing signal processing and machine learning techniques to identify abnormal lung sounds, specifically adventitious lung sounds, for diagnosis and monitoring. T...
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The stock market price is influenced by many factors both domestic and international factors. To help stock traders in make buying or selling decision, a stock price prediction model is needed. In this paper, a stock ...
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ISBN:
(数字)9798350381559
ISBN:
(纸本)9798350381566
The stock market price is influenced by many factors both domestic and international factors. To help stock traders in make buying or selling decision, a stock price prediction model is needed. In this paper, a stock closing price prediction system is introduced. We utilized 17 financial factors, i.e., 8 technical analysis factors (Crude oil price, Gold spot, Thai Baht to US Dollar exchange rate, High price, Low price, Opening price, Closing price, and Volume) and 9 fundamental factors (Exponential moving average, Relative strength index, Current ratio, Return on equity ratio, Return on assets ratio, Net profit margin ratio, Debt to equity ratio, Price to earning ratio, and Price to book value) from 18 previous working days as our inputs. We then computed chaos centroids from each factor. Finally, to predict the Monday closing price, the fuzzy support vector regression with the grey wolf optimization is utilized. There are 29 companies in 6 industry groups, i.e., RESOURCE, SERVICE, INDUS, PROPCON, AGRO, and TECH, considered in this research. We found that the minimum root mean square error of the blind test set is 0.3698 and the maximum of that is 11.66. However, the prediction trend of each company is very similar to the real closing price.
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