The efficiency of chlorine and chloramines disinfection on biofilm development in a simulated drinking water distribution system was investigated by using heterotrophic bacterial spread plate technique. The experiment...
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The efficiency of chlorine and chloramines disinfection on biofilm development in a simulated drinking water distribution system was investigated by using heterotrophic bacterial spread plate technique. The experiments were carried out with four annular reactors (ARs) with stainless steel (SS) or copper (Cu) material slides. The results showed that there were fewer bacteria attached to Cu slides without a disinfectant compared with those attached to SS slides. When the water was disinfected with chloramines, the heterotrophic plate counts (HPCs) on the biofilm attached to the Cu slides were significantly lower (by 3.46 log CFU/cm2) than those attached to the SS slides. Likewise, the biofilm HPC numbers on the Cu slides were slightly lower (by 1.19 log CFU/cm2) than those on the SS slides disinfected with chlorine. In a quasi-steady state, the HPC levels on Cu slides can be reduced to 3.0 log CFU/cm2 with chlorine and to about 0.9 log CFU/cm2 with chloramines. The addition of chloramines resulted in a more efficient reduction of biofilm heterotrophic bacteria than did chlorine. We concluded that the chlorine and chloramines levels usually employed in water distribution system were not sufficient to prevent the growth and development of microbial biofilm. The combination of copper pipe slides and chloramines as the disinfectant was the most efficient combination to bring about diminished bacterial levels.
This paper is focused on the design and fabrication of a four-arm-structure microelectromechanical systems gripper integrated with sidewall piezoresistive force sensors. Surface and bulk micromachining technologies ar...
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A novel mobile self-reconfigurable robot is presented. This robot consists of several independent units. Each unit is composed of modular components including ultrasonic sensor, camera, communication, computation, and...
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A novel mobile self-reconfigurable robot is presented. This robot consists of several independent units. Each unit is composed of modular components including ultrasonic sensor, camera, communication, computation, and mobility parts, and is capable of simple self-reconfiguring to enhance its mobility by expanding itself. Several units can not only link into a train or other shapes autonomously via camera and sensors to be a united whole robot for obstacle clearing, but also disjoin to be separate units under control after missions. To achieve small overall size, compact mechanical structures are adopted in modular components design, and a miniature advanced RISC machines (ARM) based embedded controller is developed for minimal power consumption and efficient global control. The docking experiment between two units has also been implemented.
Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is an important topic in the autonomous mobile robot research. A modified Rao-Blackwellised particle filter (MRBPF) algorithm is proposed for the mobile robot to SLAM, whic...
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Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is an important topic in the autonomous mobile robot research. A modified Rao-Blackwellised particle filter (MRBPF) algorithm is proposed for the mobile robot to SLAM, which can simultaneously localize the robot and build up the map in the structured indoor environment. Firstly, MRBPF respectively uses particle filters (PF) to estimate the posterior probability distributions of robot postures and landmarks in the environment map. Secondly, it adapts the re-sampling process based on the effective sample size (ESS), and improves the computation methods of sample weights so as to guarantee MRBPF to have enough re-sampling numbers. Furthermore, a robust motion model and an observation model with only ranging sensor and odometer are constructed. Experimental results show that MRBPF-SLAM performs well on both weight variance and the number of effective samples. More over, the estimation accuracy of path and map is improved to some extent, and the simulation results also indicate that the methods are valid.
This paper presents a camera calibration method that could be used in humanoid robot vision system. Extended Kalman Filter is used to estimate camera parameters. This method can take planer board feature points of the...
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Weld seam inflection points are inevitable in tele-teaching process on many welding occasions. The inflection points identified accurately is one of the prerequisites of ensuring tele-teaching precision. On the basis ...
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Weld seam inflection points are inevitable in tele-teaching process on many welding occasions. The inflection points identified accurately is one of the prerequisites of ensuring tele-teaching precision. On the basis of the inflection point characters, the concept of inflection point direction coefficient is proposed, the human-simulation intelligent control model of inflection point is established. The algorithms above, the inflection point identifying of box workpiece can be well performed. The experimental results show that the identifying average error of inflection point can be reduced to less than O. 5 mm by using optimal treatment of robot off-line programming system. The identifying control can automatically identify weld seam inflection points which can meet tele-teaching requirements.
A novel mobile self-reconfigurable robot is presented. This robot consists of several independent units. Each unit is composed of modular components including ultrasonic sensor, camera, communication, computation, and...
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A novel continuum robot for colonoscopy is presented. The aim is to develop a robot for colonoscopy which can provide the same functions as conventional colonoscope, but much less pain and discomfort for patient. In c...
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A novel continuum robot for colonoscopy is presented. The aim is to develop a robot for colonoscopy which can provide the same functions as conventional colonoscope, but much less pain and discomfort for patient. In contrast to traditional rigid-link robot, the robot features a continuous backbone with no joints. The continuum robot is 300 mm in total length and 12 mm in diameter that is less than the average diameter of human colon (20 mm). The robot has a total of 4 DOF (degrees of freedom) and is actuated remotely by 6 hybrid step motors through super-elastic NiTi wires. Its shape can be changed with high dexterity, therefore ensuring its adaptability to the tortuous shape of human colon. The mechanical structure, kinematics and DSP-based control system are discussed;prototype experiments are carried out to validate the kinematics model and to show the motion performances.
A novel 5 DOF exoskeletal upper-limb rehabilitation robot was implemented for hemiplegia caused by a stroke. To inspire alertness during active exercise and to promote rehabilitation of an impaired arm, a control meth...
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A novel 5 DOF exoskeletal upper-limb rehabilitation robot was implemented for hemiplegia caused by a stroke. To inspire alertness during active exercise and to promote rehabilitation of an impaired arm, a control method was developed for assisted action during complex motion of upper limbs. Torque signals for each joint were acquired in real time to estimate the magnitude and the orientation of action caused by conscious movement. To follow the intention of hemiplegic patient's movement, a proportional controller was used to control terminal velocity to match motion. Experimental results show that the method presented effectively assists patients' complex arm movements in real time.
Stair-climbing and moving object grasping both require high precision information feedback of the feature coordinate. This manuscript mainly describes how to process the information acquired from the stereovision syst...
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