AIMC Topic: Equipment Design

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Robotic Arm-Assisted Sonography: Review of Technical Developments and Potential Clinical Applications.

AJR. American journal of roentgenology
OBJECTIVE: Ultrasound imaging requires trained personnel. Advances in robotics and data transmission create the possibility of telesonography. This review introduces clinicians to current technical work in and potential applications of this developin...

A Wearable Hip Assist Robot Can Improve Gait Function and Cardiopulmonary Metabolic Efficiency in Elderly Adults.

IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
The aims of this paper were to investigate the effectiveness of a newly developed wearable hip assist robot, that uses an active assist algorithm to improve gait function, muscle effort, and cardiopulmonary metabolic efficiency in elderly adults. Thi...

A magnetic resonance image-guided breast needle intervention robot system: overview and design considerations.

International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
PURPOSE: We developed an image-guided intervention robot system that can be operated in a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging gantry. The system incorporates a bendable needle intervention robot for breast cancer patients that overcomes the space limitat...

Computational Sensing Using Low-Cost and Mobile Plasmonic Readers Designed by Machine Learning.

ACS nano
Plasmonic sensors have been used for a wide range of biological and chemical sensing applications. Emerging nanofabrication techniques have enabled these sensors to be cost-effectively mass manufactured onto various types of substrates. To accompany ...

A Dynamic Bioinspired Neural Network Based Real-Time Path Planning Method for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles.

Computational intelligence and neuroscience
Real-time path planning for autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is a very difficult and challenging task. Bioinspired neural network (BINN) has been used to deal with this problem for its many distinct advantages: that is, no learning process is need...

Automatic diet monitoring: a review of computer vision and wearable sensor-based methods.

International journal of food sciences and nutrition
Food intake and eating habits have a significant impact on people's health. Widespread diseases, such as diabetes and obesity, are directly related to eating habits. Therefore, monitoring diet can be a substantial base for developing methods and serv...

Initial Experience Using a Telerobotic Ultrasound System for Adult Abdominal Sonography.

Canadian Association of Radiologists journal = Journal l'Association canadienne des radiologistes
PURPOSE: The study sought to assess the feasibility of performing adult abdominal examinations using a telerobotic ultrasound system in which radiologists or sonographers can control fine movements of a transducer and all ultrasound settings from a r...

Bio-inspired annelid robot: a dielectric elastomer actuated soft robot.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Biologically inspired robots with inherent softness and body compliance increasingly attract attention in the field of robotics. Aimed at solving existing problems with soft robots, regarding actuation technology and biological principles, this paper...

Bio-inspired vision based robot control using featureless estimations of time-to-contact.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Marvelous vision based dynamic behaviors of insects and birds such as perching, landing, and obstacle avoidance have inspired scientists to propose the idea of time-to-contact, which is defined as the time for a moving observer to contact an object o...

Design and preliminary evaluation of a self-steering, pneumatically driven colonoscopy robot.

Journal of medical engineering & technology
Colonoscopy is a diagnostic procedure to detect pre-cancerous polyps and tumours in the colon, and is performed by inserting a long tube equipped with a camera and biopsy tools. Despite the medical benefits, patients undergoing this procedure often c...