AIMC Topic: Mechanical Phenomena

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Comparison of the human-exosuit interaction using ankle moment and ankle positive power inspired walking assistance.

Journal of biomechanics
Previous ankle exoskeleton assistance techniques that were able to demonstrate metabolic reductions can be categorized into those that delivered moment profiles similar to the biological ankle moment throughout the stance phase, and others that deliv...

Robotic hip joint testing: Development and experimental protocols.

Medical engineering & physics
The use of robotic systems combined with force sensing is emerging as the gold standard for in vitro biomechanical joint testing, due to the advantage of controlling all six degrees of freedom independently of one another. This paper describes a nove...

Development and validation of a robotic system for ankle joint testing.

Medical engineering & physics
Ankle sprains are the most common sports injury. Gaining a better understanding of ankle mechanics will help improve current treatments, enabling a better quality of life for patients following surgery. In this paper, the development of a robotic sys...

Wheelchair propulsion: Force orientation and amplitude prediction with Recurrent Neural Network.

Journal of biomechanics
The aim of this study was to use Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) to predict the orientation and amplitude of the applied force during the push phase of manual wheelchair propulsion. Trunk and the right-upper limb kinematics data were assessed with an ...

Adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system-based path planning of 5-degrees-of-freedom spatial manipulator for medical applications.

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of engineering in medicine
Over the last few decades, medical-assisted robots have been considered by many researchers, within the research domain of robotics. In this article, a 5-degrees-of-freedom spatial medical manipulator is analyzed for path planning, based on inverse k...

Utilization of a robotic mount to determine the force required to cut palatal tissue.

Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials
Determination of the material properties of soft tissue is a growing area of interest that aids in the development of new surgical tools and surgical simulators. This study first aims to develop a robot-operated tissue testing system for determinatio...

Moisture Damage Modeling in Lime and Chemically Modified Asphalt at Nanolevel Using Ensemble Computational Intelligence.

Computational intelligence and neuroscience
This paper measures the adhesion/cohesion force among asphalt molecules at nanoscale level using an Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and models the moisture damage by applying state-of-the-art Computational Intelligence (CI) techniques (e.g., artificial...

Pulling force prediction using neural networks.

International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics : JOSE
PURPOSE: In ergonomics and human factors investigations, pulling force (PF) estimation has usually been achieved using various types of biomechanical models, and independent approximation of PF was done with the help of upper extremity joints. Recent...

Force Modeling, Identification, and Feedback Control of Robot-Assisted Needle Insertion: A Survey of the Literature.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Robot-assisted surgery is of growing interest in the surgical and engineering communities. The use of robots allows surgery to be performed with precision using smaller instruments and incisions, resulting in shorter healing times. However, using cur...

Kinematic measures for upper limb robot-assisted therapy following stroke and correlations with clinical outcome measures: A review.

Medical engineering & physics
AIM OF THE STUDY: This review classifies the kinematic measures used to evaluate post-stroke motor impairment following upper limb robot-assisted rehabilitation and investigates their correlations with clinical outcome measures.