Out of the 5.4 million persons with disability, a majority has locomotor disability and the most common reason is amputation. A significant number of amputees are transtibial amputees (TTA). Traditional powered prosth...
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(纸本)9781538618882
Out of the 5.4 million persons with disability, a majority has locomotor disability and the most common reason is amputation. A significant number of amputees are transtibial amputees (TTA). Traditional powered prosthesis depends on the myoelectric signal from the muscles in the stump of residual limb, which is already a weak source of signal. This study attempts to establish relation between the muscles of the thigh and the muscles of the lower limb and thus, predict intention for ankle movement using the muscles of thigh of the TTA making use of the cyclic nature of gait The prediction is based on the detection of muscle activity, extracting a trigger signal and generating a suitable response based on the natural angular rotation of ankle in a non-amputee. EMG data was measured for ten healthy individuals along with the goniometer data for measuring the ankle rotation. The recorded data was processed to obtain trigger signals to drive a simulated virtual foot. The averaged ankle rotation per gait cycle is standardized and used as the effective movement of the simulated foot With additional improvement in timing and speed adaptation, this method can prove to be a better solution for myoelectric prosthesis, especially in cases where the residual limb cannot generate usable myoelectric signals.
The dual-drive H-gantry (DHG) is widely used for high-speed high-precision Cartesian motion control applications. Compared with the rigid-linked gantry design, the flexure-linked design is able to prevent the damage o...
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The dual-drive H-gantry (DHG) is widely used for high-speed high-precision Cartesian motion control applications. Compared with the rigid-linked gantry design, the flexure-linked design is able to prevent the damage of the cross-arm because a small degree of rotation angle is allowed. Nevertheless, the flexure-linked design possibly induces the resonance of the gantry because of the chattering of control signals. To maintain the precision tracking of two carriages and minimize the chattering of control efforts, we aim to seek the most suitable flexure joints among the available ones and optimize the decentralized feedback controller parameters under parametric uncertainties. The mechatronic design problem is formulated as an H_2 guaranteed cost control problem. All the stabilizing feedback controller gains are parameterized over a convex set, from here, numerical procedures are developed to obtain the global optimum by means of an outer-linearization-based optimization algorithm. Experiments are carried out and the results successfully validate the optimality and the robustness of the proposed design approach.
It is well known that the electro-hydraulic actuator (EHA) system is exposed to the disturbances, uncertainties, and parameter variations which are caused by the changes in operating conditions for instance, total mov...
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In clean environments, such as surgery or clean rooms, the robots with conventional joints are source of friction, dust generation, and oil lubrication. To overcome this problem, robots with contactless active robotic...
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(纸本)9781509062355
In clean environments, such as surgery or clean rooms, the robots with conventional joints are source of friction, dust generation, and oil lubrication. To overcome this problem, robots with contactless active robotic joint using active magnetic bearing (AMB) can be used. Moreover, this proposed kind of robots can be used in the applications that need high precision micropositioning control such as semiconductor wafers manipulation to form semiconductor devices. In this paper the macro/micro-positioning control of a novel contactless active robotic joint using active magnetic bearing is presented. In addition, the stability analysis of the controller is studied. The robotic joint used in this paper is designed using finite element method. This joint has 6 degrees-of-freedom (DOFs), 1-DOF for robot joint roll angle and 5-DOF for AMB. The robot joint roll angle is controlled in macro-scale accuracy. The macro-scale positioning of the joint roll angle is needed for gross motion like normal robot revolute joint. The other 5-DOF of the joint are controlled like AMB with the different that the target pitch and yaw angles as well as the axial, vertical and horizontal movements are different than zero but in micro-scale range. The robot joint roll angle is controlled using a PID-based Feedback linearization controller, while a state feedback controller with integral term is used for controlling the AMB 5-DOFs. The macro/micro-positioning control of the novel robotic joint is implemented using MATLAB/Simulink. The robustness of the controllers is tested against payload variations. The results demonstrate that the proposed novel robotic joint is feasible and valid in the applications that need high precision macro-micro-positioning control.
The high prices of rolling mill cylinders, the energetic consumption and the lack of the alloying elements, determine the research development and studies regarding the improvement of the cylinder life service. The re...
The high prices of rolling mill cylinders, the energetic consumption and the lack of the alloying elements, determine the research development and studies regarding the improvement of the cylinder life service. The research presented within this paper aimed, at first, to describe the main rolling mill rollers failure types emphasizing the main destruction form – exfoliation of the external hard layer. The goal was to link the origin of this failure type to the Jacq thermal anomaly in heat transfer. This is a new approach on thermomechanical contact fatigue, taking into account the same location of the critical stresses for both mechanical load and thermal tide on the same contact surface. After the research was conducted on a lot of rolling mill rollers made by the same producer by cast iron with a hardened layer, one observed that the exfoliation, as a form of roll-specific damage, is due to the temperature difference between the layers. In poor or insufficient cooling conditions, which causes an adhesion phenomena in areas where the cohesion structure is affected in the superficial layer, a cleavage between the layers appears at a depth of installation of both the decisive mechanical stress and the Jacq thermal anomaly.
The paper presents a method of establishing the coefficient of rolling friction by the study of the damped motion of a pericycloidal pendulum. The pericycloid is the curve described by a point belonging to a mobile ci...
The paper presents a method of establishing the coefficient of rolling friction by the study of the damped motion of a pericycloidal pendulum. The pericycloid is the curve described by a point belonging to a mobile circle, which is in pure rolling around a fixed circle, accomplishing an interior contact. For a pendulum with known inertial characteristics, mass and moment of inertia, the equation of motion is found starting from the assumption of a linear dependence between the friction torque and the normal reaction force from contact point. Using an experimental set-up, the law obeyed by damped angular amplitude versus time is found for a pericycloidal pendulum. The experimental data are compared to the theoretical ones, by superposition; thus, the value of coefficient of rolling friction is obtained. The values are in a good agreement with the ones from technical literature.
The purpose of the paper is to accomplish the kinematics study of a direct coupling between two shafts with a high pair joint, of point-surface type. Due to Hartenberg and Denavit, the kinematics analysis of spatial m...
The purpose of the paper is to accomplish the kinematics study of a direct coupling between two shafts with a high pair joint, of point-surface type. Due to Hartenberg and Denavit, the kinematics analysis of spatial mechanisms can be made by a well-known method, named the 'homogenous operators method'. This manner is applicable only for spatial mechanisms containing cylindrical pairs with particular solutions: prismatic pair and revolute pair. In order to apply the Hartenberg-Denavit procedure for the two shafts, the contact between the two shafts must be previously replaced by a succession of 5 prismatic and revolute pairs. It results a system of six trigonometric equations with six unknowns that requires a numerical methodology for solving it. The paper aims to obtain an analytical dependency between the motions of the two shafts. To this end, the geometrical condition that defines the connection between the two shafts is directly used. Thus, after all positional parameters are expressed in the same frame of reference an equation between the positional parameters of the two shafts is obtained.
Packaging process had been studied on capacitance accelerometer. The silicon-glass bonding process had been adopted on sensor chip and glass, and sensor chip and glass was adhered on ceramic substrate, the three-layer...
Packaging process had been studied on capacitance accelerometer. The silicon-glass bonding process had been adopted on sensor chip and glass, and sensor chip and glass was adhered on ceramic substrate, the three-layer structure was curved due to the thermal mismatch, the slice error of glass lead to asymmetrical curve of sensor chip. Thus, the sensitive mass of accelerometer deviated along the sensitive direction, which was caused in zero offset drift. It was meaningful to confirm the influence of slice error of glass, the simulation results showed that the zero output drift was 12.3×10-3 m/s2 when the deviation was 40μm.
Soft robots have been a buzz word in the field of robotics. However, there are several definitions of soft robots in literature with their varying degrees of usefulness to providing guidelines for designing and constr...
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Soft robots have been a buzz word in the field of robotics. However, there are several definitions of soft robots in literature with their varying degrees of usefulness to providing guidelines for designing and constructing a soft robot. This paper attempts to provide a comprehensive definition of soft robots with the goals that the definition should be of (i) generality and (ii) practicality. By generality, it is meant that the definition gives the signature to soft robots and is all inclusive, and by practicality, it is meant that the definition provides a general guideline for practicing designers to design and construct soft robots to particular applications. A salient point in our definition of soft robots is the concept of softness, which is defined from the perspective of a receiving object - particularly as the stress and other damage quantities (e.g., deflection) created in the receiving object when the receiving object interacts with the soft system per se. A further contribution is the provision of definitions to soft sensor, soft actuator along with power generator, soft controller, and soft mechanism. Finally, research issues on soft robots are outlined.
This paper describes a soft composite actuator using a 3D-printed scaffold structure. The actuator consists of a scaffold structure embedded in the center and two wires embedded above and below the scaffold to generat...
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This paper describes a soft composite actuator using a 3D-printed scaffold structure. The actuator consists of a scaffold structure embedded in the center and two wires embedded above and below the scaffold to generate motion. Each component is combined with a soft polymer, so it has the advantage of a soft morphing motion. When the wire is pulled, a bending based motion is generated, because of the eccentric force, according to the neutral surface of the composite actuator. The actuating shape can be designed according to the scaffold layer combination and deformation magnitude can be controlled by the length of the pulled wire. Two different scaffold structures, consisting of symmetric and asymmetric ply combinations, were used, and symmetric and asymmetric bend-twist motions (upper 4.3°, lower 25.9° twisting angle) can be realized.
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