As a feasibility study in 1994, we built a system that allows a robot manipulator to be teleoperated via the World Wide Web. Although the field of teleoperation dates back over 50 years, the WWW provides a low-cost and widely-available interface that can make teleoperated resources accessible to a broad range of users. The Mercury Project consisted of an industrial robot arm fitted with a CCD c...

Consider a production system where products are produced continuously and screened for conformance with their specification limits. When product performance falls below a lower specification limit or above an upper limit, a decision is made to rework or scrap the product. The majority of the process target models in the literature deal with a single-stage production system. In the real-world in...

Fixed-scale speckles are used in existing ghost imaging system, while the current instrument can achieve multiscale speckles ghost imaging. This paper focuses on the research of compressed sensing ghost imaging system using multi-scale speckles. Through the computer simulation and using the four resolution scales image as the original image, restored images are obtained to analysis on a variety...

As grasshoppers increase in size during ontogeny, they have mass specifically greater whole body tracheal and tidal volumes and ventilation than predicted by an isometric relationship with body mass and body volume. However, the morphological and physiological bases to this respiratory hypermetry are unknown. In this study, we use synchrotron imaging to demonstrate that tracheal hypermetry in d...

BACKGROUND Expired gas (exhalome) analysis of ventilated critical ill patients can be used for drug monitoring and biomarker diagnostics. However, it remains unclear to what extent volatile organic compounds are present in gases from intensive care ventilators, gas cylinders, central hospital gas supplies, and ambient air. We therefore systematically evaluated background volatiles in inspired g...