Compliant Mechanisms (CMs) have been a hot research spot in recent years due to their distinguished mechanism concept from conventional rigid-body mechanisms: CMs can transfer motion, force, and energy only through the deflection of flexible components. Therefore, accurate efficient kinetostatic modeling for these elementary components plays rather important role regarding conducting synthesis ...

Abstract– Different from the traditional rigid robots made by hard material such as metal, continuum robots are bionic mechanisms which feature high compliance and continuous shapechanging ability. A full compliant continuum robotic finger is proposed, which is driven by the compressed air inside its silicon rubber chamber and has a certain degree of grasping rigidity. By the moment equilibrium...

In this paper, we develop an autonomous construction system in which a self-contained ground robot builds a protective barrier by means of compliant pockets (i.e., filled bags). We present a stochastic control algorithm based on two biological mechanisms (stigmergy and templates) that takes advantage of compliant pockets for autonomous construction. The control algorithm guides the robot to bui...

There are many patients with inflammatory acne vulgaris who are not compliant or eligible to consume acne medications, such as oral antibiotics or isotretinoin. PubMed and Medline databases were searched for all related articles. All finding were summarized and chronologically presented in the tables. Nonmedical device-based therapies largely improve the treatment of active inflammatory acne vu...

A methodology is proposed for assessing the risk to produce non-compliant potable water, taking into account the quality of the raw water, as well as characteristics of the treatment unit and different failure modes. Belief functions are used to describe expert knowledge of treatment process efficiency, failure rates, latency times and raw water quality. Evidential reasoning provides mechanisms...

In this paper, we develop an autonomous construction system in which self-contained ground robots build a protective barrier bymeans of compliant pockets.We present a stochastic control algorithm based on two biological mechanisms – stigmergy and templates – that takes advantage of compliant pockets for autonomous construction with single and multiple robots. The control algorithm guides the ro...