Power transmissions are one of the most important parts of any mechanical system, and in order to achieve reliable operation robust and effective maintenance strategies must be used to trace the condition of the opera...
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Cell-cell adhesion force is important for cell activities. In this paper, a novel cell-cell adhesion force measurement method using nano picker was proposed based on the nanorobotic manipulation system inside an envir...
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A pipe cleaning robot for central air-condition named PCV-1 is developed to adapt to the pipe environment. This robot consists of three parts: middle part and front part as well as back part. One part in the middle of...
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(纸本)9781424493197
A pipe cleaning robot for central air-condition named PCV-1 is developed to adapt to the pipe environment. This robot consists of three parts: middle part and front part as well as back part. One part in the middle of the robot is the driving unit, which utilizes the spring mechanism to get the normal pressure and utilizes the active driving wheels to actuate the robot. The front part and back part are similar in structure. These two parts can modulate the turn angle of the robot to realize turn motion for the pipe adaptation. This robot can move in the vertical pipe beside in the horizontal pipe, which enables it move in the air conditioning pipe system. The movement capability of this robot was verified through experiments.
Volumetric mapping is essential for recognizing the 3D environment and consequentially for the decision making process for special-task mobile robots (such as stair climbing, inspection, or search and rescue). In this...
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In virtual assembly verification or remote maintenance tasks, bimanual haptic interfaces play a crucial role in successful task completion. This paper proposes a method for objectively comparing how well a haptic inte...
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In virtual assembly verification or remote maintenance tasks, bimanual haptic interfaces play a crucial role in successful task completion. This paper proposes a method for objectively comparing how well a haptic interface covers the reachable workspace of human arms. Two system configurations are analyzed for a recently introduced haptic device that is based on two DLR-KUKA light weight robots: the standard configuration, where the device is opposite the human operator, and the ergonomic configuration, where the haptic device is mounted behind the human operator. The human operator directly controls the robotic arms using handles. The analysis is performed using a representation of the robot arm workspace. The merits of restricting the comparisons to the most significant regions of the human workspace are discussed. Using this method, a greater workspace correspondence for the ergonomic configuration was shown.
When the kinematic parameters of 2D planar coordinate measuring machine are calibrated in self-calibration method, it is shown how to estimate the uncertainty of calibration and how to estimate the uncertainty of meas...
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(纸本)9788362292561
When the kinematic parameters of 2D planar coordinate measuring machine are calibrated in self-calibration method, it is shown how to estimate the uncertainty of calibration and how to estimate the uncertainty of measurement.. In this paper, the uncertainty of probing and the uncertainty of sensors are considered as the contributors of uncertainty. Two different types of CMMs are applied to two different artefacts for calibration and those measures in some different orientations for estimation of uncertainty. The effectiveness of the difference of CMMs, the artefacts and the measurement orientations are compared. As a result, it is proved that the uncertainty distribution is different in the orientation of measurement and the uncertainty could be smaller by selecting measurement orientation.
In this paper, single cell adhesion force was measured using a nanofork. The nanofork was used to pick-up a single cell on a line-patterned substrate inside ESEM. The line-patterned substrate was used to provide small...
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There are many systems to include humans in the mechanical control loops. In such systems, low-skilled operators are considered to cause accidents. To prevent these kinds of accidents, analysis of human's model wi...
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There are many systems to include humans in the mechanical control loops. In such systems, low-skilled operators are considered to cause accidents. To prevent these kinds of accidents, analysis of human's model with various methods has been studied. “Crossover model” is well known as one of the models to analyze human-machine systems. However, many of those researches have analyzed humans when they used one hand in operating the systems. In this paper, it is considered that humans use both hands in operation, and an analysis approach is proposed to evaluate human dynamic characteristics based on human's control performance and operation performance in bimanual (two hands) operation. The purpose of this research is to clarify relation between human's control performance and operation performance. It is also confirmed that analysis based on frequency responses of the crossover model is valid in the bimanual case as same as in the single-hand case. From experimental results of the bimanual operation, the proposed evaluation method successfully works to quantitatively evaluate human's control performance and operation performance.
There exist several ways to model supply chain systems, from discrete models to stochastic ones. Among them there is a modeling approach based on traffic flow theory which considers inventory levels and material flows...
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Stereo vision systems have recently become an essential part for most autonomous mobile robots. There are several commercially available stereo vision products, which have been used for autonomous functions in mobile ...
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Stereo vision systems have recently become an essential part for most autonomous mobile robots. There are several commercially available stereo vision products, which have been used for autonomous functions in mobile robot platforms. However, most of them are not suitable for compact sized robots. This paper presents an embedded stereo vision system that provides flexible baseline for robots of compact size. In terms of hardware, it provides baseline flexibility, and can be easily fitted into any robot. In terms of software, a feature based stereo vision algorithm is proposed to improve the real-time performance of the stereo vision system. The proposed featured-based method is evaluated by comparing it with the area-based method using standard test images. The results show that the computational time is significantly reduced (reduced by 60% in a relatively complex image). The proposed method is also implemented in real world environments in order to test its effectiveness.
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