AIMC Topic: Biomechanical Phenomena

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Accommodating unobservability to control flight attitude with optic flow.

Nature
Attitude control is an essential flight capability. Whereas flying robots commonly rely on accelerometers for estimating attitude, flying insects lack an unambiguous sense of gravity. Despite the established role of several sense organs in attitude s...

A bioinspired fishbone continuum robot with rigid-flexible-soft coupling structure.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Rigid-flexible-soft coupled robots are an important development direction of robotics, which face many theoretical and technical challenges in their design, manufacture, and modeling. Inspired by fishbones, we propose a novel cable-driven single-back...

A deep-learning approach for automatically detecting gait-events based on foot-marker kinematics in children with cerebral palsy-Which markers work best for which gait patterns?

PloS one
Neuromotor pathologies often cause motor deficits and deviations from typical locomotion, reducing the quality of life. Clinical gait analysis is used to effectively classify these motor deficits to gain deeper insights into resulting walking behavio...

Optimal planar leg geometry in robots and crabs for idealized rocky terrain.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Natural terrain is uneven so it may be beneficial to grasp onto the depressions or 'valleys' between obstacles when walking over such a surface. To examine how leg geometry influences walking across obstacles with valleys, we (1) modeled the performa...

Biomechanical and Physiological Evaluation of Biologically-Inspired Hip Assistance With Belt-Type Soft Exosuits.

IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Hip-assisted soft exosuits have been reported for their effect on reducing the metabolic power of human walking. Currently, most studies focus on uni-directional assistance (HF: hip flexion, or HE: hip extension). This paper investigates the effect o...

A Framework for Inclusion of Unmodelled Contact Tasks Dynamics in Industrial Robotics.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
This paper presents a method to include unmodeled dynamics of load or a robot's end-effector into algorithms for collision detection or general understanding of a robot's operation context. The approach relies on the application of a previously devel...

Optimisation and validation of a co-manipulated robot for brachytherapy procedure.

The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
BACKGROUND: Low-dose rate brachytherapy is the referent treatment for early-stage prostate cancer and consists in manually inserting radioactive seeds within the organ to destroy tumorous cells. This treatment is inaccurate leading to side effects. R...

Soft Wearable Robots: Development Status and Technical Challenges.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
In recent years, more and more research has begun to focus on the flexible and lightweight design of wearable robots. During this process, many novel concepts and achievements have been continuously made and shown to the public, while new problems ha...

Trajectory Optimization in Terms of Energy and Performance of an Industrial Robot in the Manufacturing Industry.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Currently, the high demand for new products in the automotive sector requires large investments in factories. The automotive industry is characterized by high automatization, largely achieved by manipulator robots capable of multitasking. This work p...

Design, development and evaluation of an ergonomically designed dual-use mechanism for robot-assisted cardiovascular intervention.

International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
PURPOSE: Robot-assisted cardiovascular intervention has been recently developed, which enables interventionists to avoid x-ray radiation and improve their comfort. However, there are still some challenges in the robotic design, such as the inability ...