The presence of muscle redundancy and co-activation of agonist-antagonist pairs in vivo makes the optimization of the load distribution between muscles in physiologic joint simulators vital. This optimization is usually achieved by employing different control strategies based on position and/or force feedback. A muscle activated physiologic wrist simulator was developed to test and iteratively ...

A hybrid learning procedure referred to as adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) is applied to an artificial leg model to generate the correct positions of the servomotors actuating the leg joints. One of the most important control problems of mechanical arms and legs is the efficient calculation of correct joint angles for a space trajectory. Although this application represents the si...

Cartilage defects in the knee are often seen in young and active patients. There is a need for effective joint preserving treatments in patients suffering from cartilage defects, as untreated defects often lead to osteoarthritis. Within the last two decades, tissue engineering based techniques using a wide variety of polymers, cell sources, and signaling molecules have been evaluated. We start ...

Tandem source-channel coding is proven to be optimal by Shannon given unlimited delay and complexity in the coders. Under low delay and low complexity constraints, joint source-channel coding may achieve better performance. Although digital joint source-channel coding has shown a noticeable gain in terms of reconstructed signal quality, coding delay, and complexity, it suffers from the leveling...

Infections of a total joint replacement (TJR) of the shoulder are rare complications. After revision surgery, the incidence rises dramatically. If infection occurs, it leads to a loss of function and may be devastating to the joint. Treatment options range from single- to multiple-staged revision programs, permanent resection arthroplasty or exarticulation. In this case, a reversed shoulder end...

The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a central generic problem in artificial intelligence. Considerable effort has been made in identifying properties which ensure tractability in such problems. In this paper we study hybrid tractability of soft constraint problems; that is, properties which guarantee tractability of the given soft constraint problem, but properties which do not depend ...

In this study, a three-dimensional (3D)finite elementmodel is developed to investigate thermally induced stress field during hybrid laser–gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) process. In the hybridwelding case, we focus on the GTAWprocess sharing commonmolten poolwith laser beam and playing an augment role in thehybridweldingsystem.Anexperiment-based thermalanalysis isperformedtoobtain the temperatu...

Introduction: The Hybrid External Fixator combines the advantages of the monolateral pin fixators and the circular Ilizarov wire fixators. Principle of early motion has been touted as the functional savior of major intra articular injuries in application of hybrid external fixation. Materials & Methodology: 48 patients were considered for the study with tibial fractures admitted in Mamata Gener...

Cartilage defects in the knee are often seen in young and active patients. There is a need for effective joint preserving treatments in patients suffering from cartilage defects, as untreated defects often lead to osteoarthritis. Within the last two decades, tissue engineering based techniques using a wide variety of polymers, cell sources, and signaling molecules have been evaluated. We start ...

In this paper, a novel two-stage Improved Radial Basis Function (IRBF) neural network technique is proposed to predict the joint damage of a fifty member frame structure with semi-rigid connections in both frequency and time domain. The effective input patterns as normalized design signature indices (NDSIs) in frequency domain and acceleration responses in time domain are simulated numerically ...