This paper presents the design of a body-powered voluntary closing prosthetic hand. It is argued that the movement of the fingers before establishing a grip is much less relevant for good control of the object held than the distribution of forces once the object has been contacted. Based on this notion, the configurations of forces on the fingers and the force transmission through the whole mec...

context a key determinant for clinical success is the diagnosis of the bone density in a potential implant site. the percentage of bone-implant contact is related to bone density, and the axial stress contours around an implant are affected by the density of bone. evidence acquisition a number of reports have emphasized the importance of the quality of bone on the survival of dental implants. t...

In an effort to improve sub-molecular imaging precision, a general distributed-based modeling approach for the atomic force microscope system is proposed which allows for the design of a stabilizing controller/estimation scheme that stabilizes the micro-cantilever based system while asymptotically identifying the atomic interaction force. That is, the estimated interaction force asymptotically ...