Most existing lower-limb rehabilitation robots (LLRR) for stroke and postoperative are bulky prone to misalignments between robot human joints. These drawbacks hamper LLRR application, leading poor arthro-kinematic compatibility. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a novel with portability compliance features. The developed consists of an underactuated mechanism crus linkage, respe...

INSTRUCTIONS Precision nano-positioning techniques have become very important for biomedical science, optics and microscopy. PZT and flexure compliant mechanisms are widely used in these various fields and applications within these fields. Compliant mechanisms are flexible structures, which can generate the desired motions by undergoing elastic deformation instead of through rigid linkage/joint...

Abstract When a sternum prosthesis is implemented, it must allow the movement of rib cage. The designs that have been developed are completely rigid, this aspect can present discomfort when breathing, as well fixation problems between and bone tissue. aim work to develop flexible device allows cage during breathing. Compliant mechanism design was by using pseudo-rigid body model (PRBM) starting...

In this paper, we propose a novel Head of Line Priority Cell Discard (HoL-PCD) buffer management mechanism at the earth terminal buffers of broadband satellite networks, that preserves QoS for compliant traffic at the expense of non compliant traffic, and improves the overall delay performance of the network. Our simulation model includes a GEO satellite with onboard bandwidth scheduler, with m...

This paper presented a click mechanism, which is inspired by a Dipteran insect, for use in flapping-wing micro aerial vehicle. The clicking mechanism is integrated in a thorax-like compliant mechanism, which buckles and consequently produces a large wing stroke when driven by an electric motor. The thorax-like compliant mechanism can store elastic energy in flexible hinges and is good for stori...

Purpose – Passively compliant underactuated mechanisms are one way to obtain the gripper which could accommodate to any irregular and sensitive grasping object. The purpose of the underactuation is to use less active inputs than the number of degrees of freedom of the gripper mechanism to drive the open and close motion of the gripper. Another purpose of underaction is to reduce the number of c...

This correspondence describes a European Union supported collaborative project called CustomTV based on the premise that future TV sets will provide all sorts of multimedia information and interactivity, as well as manage all such services according to each user’s or group of user’s preferences/profiles. We have demonstrated the potential of recent standards (MPEG-4 and MPEG-7) to implement suc...

RDF datasets and SPARQL endpoints hosting them are increasingly available in the life science domain. One consequence is that users have increasing difficulties in finding those endpoints which are reliable and stable. For providers, it is not an easy task to provide appropriate metadata to be easily findable. To solve these issues, we propose a service to provide a place where data providers a...

The present work aims to evolve the multiple topologies of path generating compliant mechanisms. The trade-off solution’s based topologies are developed by simultaneously minimization of weight and supplied input energy to elastic structures. The functional aspect of these compliant mechanisms is accomplished by imposing the constraints on precision points to generate the user-defined path. The...

An optimization approach is presented for enumerating pin-jointed bistable compliant mechanisms. In the first stage, the statically determinate trusses with non-crossing members containing a given set of nodes and some pre-defined members are regarded as minimally rigid framework or a Laman framework, and are enumerated without repetitions by the graph enumeration algorithm. In the second stage...