In this article, we will develop parallel processing of one-sided Radon transform for the detection of the position and the orientation of a planar motion object. Detection of planar motion based on one-sided Radon transform can be applied to arbitrary shapes and is robust against overlapping of objects but it requires much computation time. Thus, we will construct a parallel computation of one...

This paper presents a new approach for the use of piezoelectric materials, PVDF and PZT, for vibration attenuation of a planar parallel manipulator. Since lightweight linkages of parallel manipulators deform under high acceleration/deceleration, such motion induced vibration would have to be damped quickly to reduce settling time of the platform position. An active damping controller is develop...

Closed-form solutions were developed to optimize kinematics design of a 2-degree-of-freedom (2DOF) planar parallel manipulator. The optimum design based on the workspace was presented. Meanwhile, a global, comprehensive conditioning index was introduced to evaluate the kinematic designs. The optimal parallel manipulator is incorporated into a 5-DOF hybrid machine tool which includes a 2-DOF rot...

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Y. Bito, T. Shirai, S. Hirata, Y. Taniguchi, K. Hirata, Y. Otake, Y. Soutome, H. Ochi, T. Ebisu, Y. Kawai, M. Umeda, T. Higuchi, and C. Tanaka Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., Kokubunji-shi, Tokyo, Japan, Neurosurgery, Nantan General Hospital, Kyoto, Japan, Medical Informatics, Meiji University of Integrative Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, Neurosurgery, Meiji University of Integrative Medic...

Anatomical MRI studies at 7T have demonstrated the ability to provide high-quality images of human tissue in vivo. However, diffusion-weighted imaging at 7T is limited by the increased level of artifact associated with standard, single-shot, echo-planar imaging, even when parallel imaging techniques such as generalized autocalibrating partially parallel acquisitions (GRAPPA) are used to reduce ...

The design of suitable control is essential part of application of parallel robots. Together with appropriate control, the parallel robots are promising way to significantly improve accuracy and speed of machine tools in industrial production. This paper deals with the design and results of one possible control approach represented by model-based predictive control in absolute formulation. It e...

The sheer sizes of modern datasets are forcing data-structure designers to consider seriously both parallel construction and compactness. To achieve those goals we need to design a parallel algorithm with good scalability and with low memory consumption. An algorithm with good scalability improves its performance when the number of available cores increases, and an algorithm with low memory con...

Since it’s original proposal by Mansfield et al. in 1977 [1], echo-planar imaging (EPI) has had a key role in the evolution of cardiac MRI. EPI involves the rapid acqusition of k-space data in a raster-like fashion, requiring a fewer number of excitations compared to conventional 2DFT imaging. This is crucial in cardiac imaging as respiratory and cardiac motion places high demands on imaging sp...

An upward planar drawing of a digraph G is a planar drawing of G where every edge is drawn as a simple curve monotone in the vertical direction. A digraph is upward planar if it has an embedding that admits an upward planar drawing. The problem of testing whether a digraph is upward planar is NP-complete. In this paper we give a linear-time algorithm to test the upward planarity of a series-par...