A group lubrication system of mechanical components for a walking excavator is proposed, the original design lubricator with pneumatic drive and controlled electro-magnetic valve developed

Mechatronics is the art of directing the advances of a variety of academic and engineering areas to solve the smart machine problems. Author Supervisor Summary Title Language Keywords Document type Date www.md.kth.se This thesis treats block-oriented modelling, approximate linearization and control of a nonlinear pneumatic actuator system. The definition of the block-oriented nonlinear model is...

Fault diagnosis is an ongoing significant research field, due to the constant increasing need for maintainability, reliability and safety of industrial plants. The pneumatic actuators are installed mainly in harsh environment: high temperature, pressure, aggressive media, vibration, etc. This influenced on the Pneumatic actuator predicted lifetime. The failures in pneumatic actuator cause force...

Although electrical motors are still the main devices used in vehicular exhaust comprises more than 95 percent of the air pollution in Taiwan's largest city, Taipei. On average, all commuters in Taipei travel 13.6 km daily, while motorcycle commuters travel 12.2 km. The convenience and mobility of motorcycles makes them irreplaceable in Taiwan city traffic but they add significantly to air poll...

This paper presents two control approaches for a linear axis with pneumatic muscles. Its guided carriage is driven by a nonlinear drive system consisting of two pulley tackles with pneumatic muscle actuators arranged at both sides. This innovative drive concept allows for an increased workspace as well as higher carriage velocities as compared to a direct actuation. Both proposed control scheme...

Three-dimensional tumor culture methods offer a high degree of biological and clinical relevance to in vitro models as well as cancer therapy. However, a straightforward, dynamic, and high-throughput method for micro-manipulation of 3D tumors is not yet well established. In this study, we present a novel and simple strategy for producing biomimetic 3D tumors in a controllable, high throughput m...

Pneumatic drives are used in a wide range of industrial applications. Most of the pneumatic drive applications are simple point-to-point movements, where the motion characteristics is typically set up once by manual tuning. Changes in the operating conditions demand a new manual adjustment and thus additional costs. This work aims at developing a conrol strategy for pneumatic drives to save man...

BACKGROUND The axial skeleton of extinct saurischian dinosaurs (i.e., theropods, sauropodomorphs), like living birds, was pneumatized by epithelial outpocketings of the respiratory system. Pneumatic signatures in the vertebral column of fossil saurischians include complex branching chambers within the bone (internal pneumaticity) and large chambers visible externally that are bounded by neural ...

BACKGROUND Tympanometry and pneumatic otoscopy are recommended for diagnosis of otitis media, but are not frequently used by general practitioners (GPs). We examined how, after targeted short training, GP diagnosis and management of childhood ear disease was changed by the addition of these techniques to non-pneumatic otoscopy. We further explored factors influencing the uptake of these techniq...