Laser feedback-based self-mixing interferometry (SMI) is a promising technique for displacement sensing. However, commercial deployment of such sensors is being held back due to reduced performance in case of variable optical feedback which invariabl...
Robotic grippers, inspired by human hands, show an extraordinary ability to manipulate objects of various shapes, sizes, or materials. However, capturing objects with varying kinetic energy remains challenging, regardless of the classical rigid-bodie...
We have developed a microscale hydraulic soft gripper and demonstrated the handling of an insect without damage. This gripper is built on Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) with the soft material casting technique to form three finger-like columns, which ar...
We present a novel approach for the design of capillary-driven microfluidic networks using a machine learning genetic algorithm (ML-GA). This strategy relies on a user-friendly 1D numerical tool specifically developed to generate the necessary data t...
The strong interaction of blood with the foreign surface of membrane oxygenators during ECMO therapy leads to adhesion of immune cells on the oxygenator membranes, which can be visualized in the form of image sequences using confocal laser scanning m...
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of engineering in medicine
Dec 1, 2022
Continuum robot has great advantages in minimally invasive surgery (MIS) due to the slenderness and dexterity. But the friction and backlash result in the low trajectory tracking accuracy. This paper aims to study the transmission process of the driv...
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Nov 29, 2022
Small-scale soft robots are attracting increasing interest for visible and potential applications owing to their safety and tolerance resulting from their intrinsic soft bodies or compliant structures. However, it is not sufficient that the soft bodi...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
Nov 25, 2022
BACKGROUND: The single port surgical robot causes only one incision and brings many benefits to patients. It is very challenging to design a single port surgical robot that causes a smaller incision than current products.
The movement capabilities of snake robots allow them to be applied in a variety of applications. We realized a snake robot climbing in crowded pipes. In this paper, we implement a sinusoidal curve control method that allows the snake robot to move fa...
Shortage of labor and increased work of young people are causing problems in terms of care and welfare of a growing proportion of elderly people. This is a looming social problem because people of advanced ages are increasing. Necessary in the fields...
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