This paper presents the design of a new lightweight, hyper-redundant, deployable Binary Robotic Articulated Intelligent Device (BRAID), for space robotic systems. The BRAID is intended to meet the challenges of future space robotic systems that need to perform more complex tasks than are currently feasible. It is lightweight, has a high degree of freedom, and has a large workspace. The device i...

3 Abstract--This paper presents the design of a new lightweight, hyper-redundant, deployable Binary Robotic Articulated Intelligent Device (BRAID), for space robotic systems. The BRAID element is intended to meet the challenges of future space robotic systems that need to perform more complex tasks than are currently feasible. It is lightweight, has a high degree of freedom and a large workspac...

The goal of this project was to design and implement the electronics for a robotic device – namely a robotic manipulator. The manipulator has a total of six degrees of freedom, three of which are on the manipulator itself, and the rest are in the wrist. A gripper is used as the end stage of the device. It was necessary to design the electronics so that they could be interfaced with standard har...

Fractures in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) are often difficult to treat and surgical treatment may be fraught with complications. We describe the use of a robotic-assisted device in the surgical treatment of an unstable L1 fracture in an elderly patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and AS. The postoperative course was uneventful and the patient was discharged after 3 days. The use of a robot...

Robotic surgery (RS) technology has undergone rapid growth in the surgical field since its approval. In clinical practice, failure of robotic procedures mainly results from a surgeon's inability or to a device malfunction. We reviewed the literature to estimate the impact of this second circumstance in RS and its consequent legal implications. According to data from the literature, device malfu...

In this paper, we propose a novel electromyographic (EMG) control interface to control motion and joints compliance of a supernumerary robotic finger. The supernumerary robotic fingers are a recently introduced class of wearable robotics that provides users additional robotic limbs in order to compensate or augment the existing abilities of natural limbs without substituting them. Since supernu...

The paper presents an advanced Fuzzy self-tuning PID controller theory and it implement its applications on Data I/O’s automated robotic programming systems. Considerable programming technology shift occurred in recent device programmer industry; programming density have been constantly fast growing from lowvolume to high-volume programming for all kinds of non-volatile flash memory devices suc...

A device for robot-assisted brachytherapy has been designed to be used with a robotic minimally invasive surgical robot such as the ZEUSTM. It allows loading of a standard brachytherapy needle so that the robot can position and orient it as required. The device accurately retracts a hollow needle loaded with radioactive seeds while a stationary plunger pushes the seeds out within the cancerous ...