AIMC Topic: Mechanical Phenomena

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Robotic orthoses for gait rehabilitation: An overview of mechanical design and control strategies.

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of engineering in medicine
The application of robotic devices in providing physiotherapies to post-stroke patients and people suffering from incomplete spinal cord injuries is rapidly expanding. It is crucial to provide valid rehabilitation for people who are experiencing abno...

MakeSense: Automated Sensor Design for Proprioceptive Soft Robots.

Soft robotics
Soft robots have applications in safe human-robot interactions, manipulation of fragile objects, and locomotion in challenging and unstructured environments. In this article, we present a computational method for augmenting soft robots with proprioce...

Mechanoreception for Soft Robots via Intuitive Body Cues.

Soft robotics
Mechanoreception, the ability of robots to detect mechanical stimuli from the internal and external environments, contributes significantly to improving safety and task performance during the operation of robots in unstructured environments. Various ...

CT and MRI compatibility of flexible 3D-printed materials for soft actuators and robots used in image-guided interventions.

Medical physics
PURPOSE: Three-dimensional (3D) printing allows for the fabrication of medical devices with complex geometries, such as soft actuators and robots that can be used in image-guided interventions. This study investigates flexible and rigid 3D-printing m...

Flexible Piezoelectric Acoustic Sensors and Machine Learning for Speech Processing.

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Flexible piezoelectric acoustic sensors have been developed to generate multiple sound signals with high sensitivity, shifting the paradigm of future voice technologies. Speech recognition based on advanced acoustic sensors and optimized machine lear...

Interfacing Soft and Hard: A Spring Reinforced Actuator.

Soft robotics
Muscular hydrostats have long been a source of inspiration for soft robotic designs. With their inherent compliance, they excel in unpredictable environments and can gently manipulate objects with ease. However, their performance lacks where high for...

Electronic Skin: Recent Progress and Future Prospects for Skin-Attachable Devices for Health Monitoring, Robotics, and Prosthetics.

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Recent progress in electronic skin or e-skin research is broadly reviewed, focusing on technologies needed in three main applications: skin-attachable electronics, robotics, and prosthetics. First, since e-skin will be exposed to prolonged stresses o...

Force classification during robotic interventions through simulation-trained neural networks.

International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
PURPOSE: Intravitreal injection is among the most frequent treatment strategies for chronic ophthalmic diseases. The last decade has seen a serious increase in the number of intravitreal injections, and with it, adverse effects and drawbacks. To tack...

Validation of computerized square-drawing based evaluation of motor function in patients with stroke.

Medical engineering & physics
Human-administered clinical scales are commonly used for quantifying motor performance and determining the course of therapy in post-stroke individuals. Computerized methods aim to improve consistency, resolution and duration of patients' evaluation....

Living Materials Herald a New Era in Soft Robotics.

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Living beings have an unsurpassed range of ways to manipulate objects and interact with them. They can make autonomous decisions and can heal themselves. So far, a conventional robot cannot mimic this complexity even remotely. Classical robots are of...