Deepak Behera and Dr.J.Srinivas, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT-Rourkela 769 008 email: [email protected] Abstract: This paper presents the kinetostatic analysis and design of a two degree-offreedom five-bar underactuated compliant mechanism using a pseudo-rigid body modeling. Two of the joints in the linkage are flexible and actuation is provided to the crank. The slider connected ...

We present a photogrammetric system for on-line pose measurement of a robot. The system is based on photogrammetric measurement techniques, namely resection. We describe the theoretical foundations of our approach as well as early details of our implementation and hardware set-up. The results achieved are compared to those of a commercial ball-bar system.

Taste appeal, sustainable ingredients and valid health claims are challenges for successful marketing of healthier food products. This study was designed to compare the effects of branding, ingredients and nutrition information on consumer liking towards a prototype of the Nothing Else healthier snack bar with the top three brands of New Zealand snack bars, and another product with a good nutri...

Inspired by the bite and swallowing function of a snake’s mouth, a robot end‐effector grabbing mechanism was designed. The grabbing movement is realized by the ‘bite’ function of the bionic snake mouth actuator, and the ‘swallowing’ function insures a continuous grip on the object. To implement the continuous grip function of the new robot end‐effector, the c...

Medication errors occur frequently and have significant clinical and financial consequences. Several types of information technologies can be used to decrease rates of medication errors. Computerized physician order entry with decision support significantly reduces serious inpatient medication error rates in adults. Other available information technologies that may prove effective for inpatient...

A grinding robot system is presented in this paper. Active compliant motion control is applied to keep contacting between grinding tool and work pieces and auto surface tracking algorithm was developed to trace the outline of work-pieces. For real implementation of the system, the shape of work pieces are informed through barcode and the piece’s dimension is measured with a laser distance senso...

A floorplan is a rectangle subdivided into smaller rectangular sections by horizontal and vertical line segments. Each section in the floorplan is called a block. Two floorplans are considered equivalent if and only if there is a one-to-one correspondence between the blocks in the two floorplans such that the relative position relationship of the blocks in one floorplan is the same as the relat...

In order to develop a human hand mechanism, a 5-bar finger with redundant actuation is suggested Optimal sets of actuator locatiom and link lengths for the cases of minimum actuator, one, two, and three redundant actuators are obtained by employing a composite design index which simultaneously consider several performance indices such as workspace, isotropic index, and force transmission ratio,...