This study focuses on the early stages of developing and testing an interactive approach for gesture-based wheelchair control that could facilitate the user in various tasks such as cooking and food serving. The propo...
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(纸本)9781467360210
This study focuses on the early stages of developing and testing an interactive approach for gesture-based wheelchair control that could facilitate the user in various tasks such as cooking and food serving. The proposed method allows a user to hold an object (tray, saucepan, etc) with both hands and to control at the same time the wheelchair direction via changing the position of his/her arms. The wheelchair control system contains an image sensor directed to the user's arms. Sensor signals are processed via an image-recognition algorithm and the calculations for the arm positions are used for the computation of the wheelchair steering signals. Thus, the wheelchair direction depends on the arm positions and the user can control the wheelchair by moving his/her arms. An initial wheelchair prototype, operated by the intentional motions of one hand, was built and was tested by several initial experiments.
We present the fabrication of 3D porous micro-channel for artificial capillary blood vessel model to study the pressure of glomerulus in vitro. The 3D porous micro-channel was fabricated by direct laser writing to mim...
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We present the fabrication of 3D porous micro-channel for artificial capillary blood vessel model to study the pressure of glomerulus in vitro. The 3D porous micro-channel was fabricated by direct laser writing to mimic the complex structure of capillary blood vessel. It was designed to connect with micro-channels which were fabricated by UV lithography process. The 3D porous micro-channel was made of IP-L to represent the glomerulus structures via direct laser writing. The fabricated structure was observed by optical and electron microscope to reveal the fabrication errors due to shrinkage. Optimization of the direct laser writing method shows that IP-L is a better photoresist compare to Ormocomp for 3D porous micro-channel by solid model fabrication. The PDMS micro-channel has also been fabricated and assembled on the glass with the IP-L porous micro-channel. There was no leakage when fluid flow experiment was performed due to surface tension.
This paper presents the design and analysis of a 2-DOF monolithic parallel mechanism for micro- and nano-manipulations. Two sets of statically indeterminate leaf parallelograms are employed to provide the decoupling e...
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(纸本)9781467353199
This paper presents the design and analysis of a 2-DOF monolithic parallel mechanism for micro- and nano-manipulations. Two sets of statically indeterminate leaf parallelograms are employed to provide the decoupling effect, and the displacement of the piezoelectric actuator (PEA) is amplified with a statically indeterminate lever mechanism. Due to the static indeterminacy, the load-deflection relationship of the mechanism is nonlinear. Computational analysis is utilized to investigate the nonlinearity. Computational results reveal that the structural nonlinearities of the mechanism is negligible within the maximum driving force of the PEA. The influence of the contact interface and the load mass is also investigated through computational analyses. Ultimately, a prototype is fabricated and a laser interferometer measurement system is established to obtain the position and velocity of the prototype. A number of experiments are performed to investigate the performance of the prototype. Experimental results show that the developed prototype has achieved a workspace of 82×82 μm 2 , a first natural frequency of 423 Hz (with a 53.4 g load mass), and a cross-axis coupling ratio below 1%.
In this paper, we study the scheduling architecture that enables an assembly of mobile modules to reconfigure into a humanoid formation with a manipulator arm. The investigated problem arises from the articulated natu...
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(纸本)9781479915132
In this paper, we study the scheduling architecture that enables an assembly of mobile modules to reconfigure into a humanoid formation with a manipulator arm. The investigated problem arises from the articulated nature of the formation which involves multiple degrees of freedom, thus requiring a control approach that synchronizes the actuators' motion during shape metamorphosis. Using the principles of motion kinematics and caterpillar tracks modeling, we present a coherent solution which we further validate on a sample three-module formation of STORM (Self-configurable and Transformable Omni-directional Robotic Modules). Simulation results on MSC ADAMS CAR validate the feasibility of the synchronization architecture, and offer further insight into the dynamic dependencies of coupled motions.
Nonlinear elasticity of transmission is indispensable in any passively variable stiffness mechanism. However, it remains obscure how to decide a desired nonlinear force-displacement function. On the other hand biologi...
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(纸本)9781467363563
Nonlinear elasticity of transmission is indispensable in any passively variable stiffness mechanism. However, it remains obscure how to decide a desired nonlinear force-displacement function. On the other hand biological muscular actions are associated with stiffness/impedance variation in a wide range as demanded by everyday tasks. This paper addresses the issue of designing a nonlinear elastic transmission, where the elastic behaviour is obtained from the passive properties of biological muscle, which happens to be an exponential one, leading to existence of linearity between stiffness and force. In general, with passive damping, the transmission behaves as a mechanical impedance element, to be used in variable impedance actuation. Knowledge of the varying impedance is required to operate the transmission reliably. An off-line calibrated model can only be approximate and erroneous with noisy sensors and changing characteristics of the passive elements with time and environmental condition. This article implements an Extended Kalman Filter algorithm for on-line estimation of stiffness and impedance of such a damped series-elastic transmission. The underlined principle in stiffness-force affine relation is exploited favourably in stiffness estimation with reduced complexity. The effectiveness of the proposed estimator is examined through experiments on the mechanical transmission designed using the biological principle.
This paper describes a novel mobility assistive device under development in the Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST). The proposed system can help patients who do not have enough physical strength...
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The article proposes an approach to the development of a Delta robot which is the most frequently used robot with a parallel kinematic structure for industrial fast pick and place applications. The approach is model b...
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We present the fabrication of micro-sorting device with multiple-size pores micro-channel. The porous micro-channel has 1, 3, and 5 μm diameter. It was fabricated by direct laser writing. It was designed to connect w...
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High resolution imaging is an important technique for micro-nano scale objects to obtain the structural information. Micro computed tomography (micro-CT) is one of the techniques to obtain internal information without...
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High resolution imaging is an important technique for micro-nano scale objects to obtain the structural information. Micro computed tomography (micro-CT) is one of the techniques to obtain internal information without physical damage for sample. We investigate the micro-CT imaging for the Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) in this paper. This is the one of the smallest animal used as a model organism, which is a biological model in the biology and medical research fields for investigating the biological system, evaluating the drugs affectivities, and so on. We used a micro-CT instrument inside an environmental scanning electron microscope (E-SEM) for obtaining small samples with water-containing condition. This set-up will be effective as a novel nanomanipulation platform to investigate three-dimensional manipulation of small biological samples, including C. elegans.
Eccentric paddle mechanism based on epicyclic gear mechanism (ePaddle-EGM) is a novel locomotion mechanism designed for amphibious robot. The epicyclic gear mechanism is the key component of ePaddle-EGM to perform mul...
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(纸本)9781479927456
Eccentric paddle mechanism based on epicyclic gear mechanism (ePaddle-EGM) is a novel locomotion mechanism designed for amphibious robot. The epicyclic gear mechanism is the key component of ePaddle-EGM to perform multiple gaits. In this paper, efficiency of the epicyclic gear mechanism is analyzed. Via the virtual power flow, we characterize how the efficiency relates with the velocity ratio and torque ratio. Two particular conditions verified the proposed efficiency formulas.
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