Finger millet crop is important minor millet, which can serve as both food and fodder. Manual harvesting of finger involves earhead stalk separately labor intensive. Hence, the study aimed to design develop a harvester for remove drudgery in achieve low cost harvesting. The machine parameters influencing millets were identified most prominent variety CO (Ra) 14 millet. A prototype was developed...

The motion planning approach of a multi-fingered robot for carton flap folding operations has been newly developed. This approach considers the loci of the tool center point for carton flap folding operations. Also that considers the pushing or fixing points of the carton flap. This approach is calculated from the rotating angle for carton flap folding and the position of a robot finger tip in ...

Tactile displays are used to convey small-scale pressure and shape information to the finger tip. Our device designs include a 1x10 pin display using shape-memory alloy actuators and a 6x6 pin display using inexpensive commercially available servomotor-gearhead packages. Our human factors studies suggest that bandwidths of about 30 Hz are required for free exploratory motions with pin-based dis...

A difficult issue in stress management is to use biomedical sensor signals in the diagnosis and treatment of stress. Clinicians often make their diagnosis and decision based on manual inspection of physiological signals such as, ECG, heart rate, finger temperature etc. However, the complexity associated with manual analysis and interpretation of the signals makes it difficult even for experienc...

Commercially available robotic grippers are often expensive and not easy to modify for specific purposes of robotics research and education. To extend the choice of robotic end effectors available to researchers, this paper presents the preliminary work on prototype design and analysis of a three-finger underactuated robotic end effector with a breakaway clutch mechanism suitable for research i...

We developed a device that converts visual information on a tablet into tactile information on the fingertip. To achieve this we mount optical sensors and a tactile display on the fingertip. Our first prototype using a vibrator for each finger revealed that it was difficult to recognize the information of the display, mainly because of its low resolution. We addressed this limitation in our sec...

We constructed a prototype of an electrolarynx whereof the fundamental frequency (hereafter pitch for simplicity) can be adjusted by an up-down or left-right finger movement, and carried out some comparison experiments on its operation. As a result, we found that the left-right finger movement could operate the device more simply and in a shorter time. In both cases, in the prototype electrolar...

This Science Fiction Prototype explores both the possibilities of Brain-Computer Interfaces with Artificial Intelligence and writing autobiographical Science Fiction. The paper proceeds in three parts. The context for the story is introduced in the first section, outlining the particularly personal circumstances from which the story has been written. In the second section the story is presented...

Six years ago a patient suffered a severe allergic reaction from sensitization to methyl methacrylate in a mixture of materials designed to make artificial nails. There was marked erythema, edema, and pain of the eponychial and paronychial tissues with persistent paresthesia of the finger tips. Gradual destruction of the nail plates developed and since no regrowth of the nails resumed in six ye...