This paper presents the development of an Intelligent Mini Robot Fingers by using the Shape Memory Alloy (SMA). Taking into consideration the advantages of the SMA, a prototype of mini robot fingers is developed which will be actuated by the SMA. The mini robot fingers has 4 fingers with 3 degrees of freedom (DOF) in each finger. Hence, 12 DOFs of robot fingers are developed to allow a greater ...

Artificial intelligent methods are increasingly used within computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) applications. Real-time expert system environments are good tools to develop intelligent controllers. The first part of this paper summarises some problems of the application of artificial intelligence and expert systems within the CIM area. Then a new open European CNC architecture (OSACA) is in...

Communication is the act of sharing information to produce greater understanding. It both, an art and science. Like us humans, animals also have its own way conveying information. We evolved from one language been able converse in various languages. IoT based Smart Gloves innovative system which will help dumb interact with normal people. This uses a set sensors that are attached each finger on...

Presentation attack against biometric authentication systems is getting attention by many researchers since the seminal paper[4]. In this paper, we consider a new kind of presentation attack called wolf attack. Wolf attack does not require biometric feature from a victim which the other presentation attacks does but synthesizes biometric feature from scratch by analyzing vulnerability in biomet...

The U.S. Army Ordnance Center and School and Pacific Northwest Laboratory have developed a system that employs Artificial Neural Network (ANN) technology to perform diagnosis and prognosis of fuel flow problems in the AGT-1500 gas turbine engine of the M1A1 Abrams tank. This paper describes the design and prototype development of the diagnostic system, referred to as "TEDANN" for Turbine Engine...

We propose a novel interface in mobile environment called “Ubi-Finger” that realizes sensuous operations for PDAs and information appliances using gestures of fingers. In this paper, first, we propose the concept of Ubi-Finger. This concept enables users to sensuously control various devices in the real world. Since gestures are usual methods of nonverbal communications and enables sensuous ope...

This paper describes a mechanical underactuated hand, whose design is under patenting. The proposed hand can be used as robot grasping end-effector and, mainly, as a human prosthesis. The proposed underactuated mechanism is based on an adaptive scheme, hence it permits to move five fingers with only one actuator. The actuator is connected to a set of pulleys that operate five tendons. Each tend...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of keyswitch orientation on joint torques. BACKGROUND The fingertip produces primarily vertical forces during single-finger tapping on a computer keyswitch. However, horizontal force components within the sagittal plane of the finger could reduce net joint torques. METHOD Eleven participants tapped on a keyswitch oriented in three directions: vertical, tilte...

A new type of wrist-mounted robot, the Supernumerary Robotic (SR) Fingers, is proposed to work closely with the human hand and aid the human in performing a variety of prehensile tasks. For people with diminished functionality of their hands, these robotic fingers could provide the opportunity to live with more independence and work more productively. A natural and implicit coordination between...