Three-dimensional (3D) micro-structure of bone scaffold played an important role in cell adhesion and reproduction. The introduction of 3D measuring techniques in bone research made it possible to capture the actual a...
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Industrial robots are widely used and should be able to easily treat various work pieces. Therefore, a teaching and playback method is effective in small-quantity batch production. This paper suggests the mathematical...
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This paper presents a comparative study of indirect and direct workspace representation in human-robot interaction. Most of previous researches were using indirect workspace representation or were restricted to mobile...
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In this paper, a new infrared-based face identification system based on an input image decomposition is presented. The proposed image decomposition is a novel approach to transform an infrared image into a multilayer ...
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This paper presents setting up experimental systems based on MATX in laboratories and undergraduate school. This configuration has advantages of introduction cost, maintenance fee, easy reconstruction compared with co...
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(纸本)9783902661562
This paper presents setting up experimental systems based on MATX in laboratories and undergraduate school. This configuration has advantages of introduction cost, maintenance fee, easy reconstruction compared with commercial equipments. The advantages and effectiveness of the proposed experimental system configuration are demonstrated in this paper by using a Furuta pendulum system as an example.
Abstract This paper presents a tracked robot composed of the proposed crawler mechanism, in which a planetary gear reducer is employed as transmission device and provides two outputs in different forms with only one a...
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Abstract This paper presents a tracked robot composed of the proposed crawler mechanism, in which a planetary gear reducer is employed as transmission device and provides two outputs in different forms with only one actuator. The robot that contains two crawler modules can generate several configurations through controlling cooperatively the two actuators. This tracked robot, which uses two actuators to give four outputs, however could have less realizable postures than that where each output is provided by one actuator exactly. To figure out what postures can be generated by the introduced dual-crawler robot, the quasi-static analysis of the robot has been conducted in case of taking the rolling resistance into consideration, and its realizable postures are obtained numerically. The posture transition of the robot is also discussed in this paper.
This paper presents the mechanical design and kinematic analysis methodologies of a 3-PRR flexure-based parallel mechanism, which can be utilized to conduct planar precision positioning as required for automating micr...
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(纸本)9780889868106
This paper presents the mechanical design and kinematic analysis methodologies of a 3-PRR flexure-based parallel mechanism, which can be utilized to conduct planar precision positioning as required for automating micro/ nano manipulation tasks. Flexure hinges are used as the revolute joints to provide smooth motion in the range of micrometers. Three high performance piezoelectric actuators are utilized to drive the flexure-based mechanism. The kinematics of the proposed flexure-based parallel mechanism is established. Finite element analysis is conducted to validate the performance of the 3-PRR flexure-based parallel mechanism. Two simplified methodologies are proposed to improve the computational efficiency of the kinematics of the developed mechanism.
In this paper we present how nanoelectronics should advance medicine, providing details on the teleoperated techniques and equipment design methodology necessary for the effective development of nanorobots. The platfo...
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In this paper we present how nanoelectronics should advancemedicine, providing details on the teleoperated techniques andequipment design methodology necessary for the effective developmentof nanorobots. The platform architecture describes how to usea nanorobot for intracranial prognosis, and shows how it shouldbe integrated for medical instrumentation. Furthermore, thecurrent study establishes proteomics, nanobioelectronics, andelectromagnetics as the basis to advance medical nanorobotics.To illustrate the proposed approach, the nanorobots must searchfor protein overexpression signals in order to recognize initialstages of aneurysm. An advanced nanomechatromics simulator,using a three-dimensional task-based environment, is implementedto provide an effective tool for device prototyping and medicalinstrumentation analysis. Thus, based on clinical data and nanobioelectronics,the proposed model offers details about how a nanorobot shouldhelp with the early detection of cerebral aneurysm.
Composite materials are widely used in many engineering applications due to their high strength-to-weight ratios. However, it is well known that composites are susceptible to impact damage. Detection of impact damage ...
Composite materials are widely used in many engineering applications due to their high strength-to-weight ratios. However, it is well known that composites are susceptible to impact damage. Detection of impact damage is an important issue in maintenance of composite structures. Various non-destructive image-based techniques have been developed for damage detection in composite materials. These include vibrothermography that detects surface temperature changes due to heating associated with frictional energy dissipation by damage. In the present paper numerical simulations are used to investigate heat generation in a composite plate with impact damage in order to support damage detection analysis with vibrothermography. Explicit finite elements are used to model ultrasonic wave propagation in the damaged plate. Simulated delamination and cracks induce frictional heating in the plate. Coupled thermo-mechanical simulations are performed in high frequencies using commercial LS-Dyna finite element code. Very good qualitative agreement between measurements and simulations has been obtained. The area of increased temperature corresponds very well with the damaged area in both experiments and simulations. Numerical model has to be further refined in order to quantitatively match the experiments. The main issues of concern are frictional and thermal properties of composites. The final goal of these research efforts is to predict damage detection sensitivity of vibrothermography in real engineering applications based on numerical models.
Stereo matching commonly requires rectified images that are computed from calibrated cameras. Since all underlying parametric camera models are only approximations, calibration and rectification will never be perfect....
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Stereo matching commonly requires rectified images that are computed from calibrated cameras. Since all underlying parametric camera models are only approximations, calibration and rectification will never be perfect. Additionally, it is very hard to keep the calibration perfectly stable in application scenarios with large temperature changes and vibrations. We show that even small calibration errors of a quarter of a pixel are severely amplified on certain structures. We discuss a robotics and a driver assistance example where sub-pixel calibration errors cause severe problems. We propose a filter solution based on signal theory that removes critical structures and makes stereo algorithms less sensitive to calibration errors. Our approach does not aim to correct decalibration, but rather to avoid amplifications and mismatches. Experiments on ten stereo pairs with ground truth and simulated decalibrations as well as images from robotics and driver assistance scenarios demonstrate the success and limitations of our solution that can be combined with any stereo method.
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