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Continuum Robots in Surgery: From Engineering Design to Clinical Practice

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
The hyper‐redundant nature of continuum robot structures enables near‐infinite degrees of freedom leading to immense potential for medical applications. This review provides a historical background of continuum robots and novel ideas shaping their progress to current structural design, sensing technology, modeling techniques, and control methods.
Griffin Smith, Kaitlyn Clancy, Siwen Xie, Xiaochen Li, Sarah Khalife, Benjamin van der Woerd, Onaizah Onaizah   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wireless Power Transfer for Underwater Vehicles

, 2023
Wireless power transfer (WPT) through magnetic resonance coupling (MRC) offers a safe and simple solution for underwater (UV) vehicles without being affected by water conductivity.
Çetin, Ramazan, Kalay, Altan, Ağcal, Ali   +2 more
core  

Flexible Sensors for Robotics Tactile Perception: A Review

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Flexible tactile sensing for robotics is reviewed through four interconnected dimensions. Physical mechanisms include piezoresistive, capacitive, piezoelectric, triboelectric, iontronic, and optical sensing. Structural design includes bioinspired, defect‐based, and MEMS‐based tactile systems.
Yu Song, Ying Chen, Yihao Chen, Xue Feng
wiley   +1 more source

NB-IoT Using wireless power transfer antenna array as Polling Protocol

, 2016
The 3GPP had standardized NB-IoT [3]-[5] in June 2016. It provides deep indoor and wide area coverage extension of 20dB over GSM. The NB-IOT network can support 50,000 users per cell and a battery life of more than ten years.
Lin, Ting-Wei;Liao, Yu-De;Wang, An-Sung;Wong, Ching-Chang;Lee, Yang-Han;Yuan, Qiaowei;Shinohara, Naoki;Chen, Qiang
core  

Optimization of a Magnetically Coupled Resonators System for Power Line Communication Integration

, 2015
In this contribution the authors propose a hybrid Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) - Power Line Communications (PLC) system, in which the WPT channel is interfaced to a PLC environment to allow data transfer when a cabled connection is no longer available.
TUCCI, MAURO, Sami Barmada, Mauro Tucci, BARMADA, SAMI   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Flexible and wearable battery-free backscatter wireless communication system for colour imaging

npj Flexible Electronics
Wireless imaging, equipped with ultralow power wireless communications and energy harvesting (EH) capabilities, have emerged as battery-free and sustainable solutions.
Jun-Lin Zhan, Wei-Bing Lu, Cong Ding, Zhen Sun, Bu-Yun Yu, Lu Ju, Xin-Hua Liang, Zhao-Min Chen, Hao Chen, Yong-Hao Jia, Zhen-Guo Liu, Tie-Jun Cui   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

IRS-Assisted Wireless Sensor Networks With Hybrid TDMA-NOMA

IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
This paper investigates the energy harvesting (EH) and information decoding (ID) capabilities of wireless sensor networks (WSN) employing a hybrid time division multiple access (TDMA) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), i.e., the WSN with a hybrid
Haitham Al-Obiedollah, Haythem Bany Salameh, Kanapathippillai Cumanan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Magnetically Actuated Microrobot for Drug Delivery: Current Progress and Challenges

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Magnetically actuated microrobots are reshaping targeted drug delivery through wireless propulsion, programmable materials, and localized therapeutic release. This review examines how fabrication, body material selection, structural architecture, loading mechanisms, and imaging‐guided control converge to enable microrobotic therapies while identifying ...
Yang Yang, David J. Cappelleri
wiley   +1 more source

Hybrid Beamfocusing Architecture and Algorithm for Microwave Wireless Power Transmission Systems

IEEE Access
This study investigates a hybrid beamfocusing method for microwave wireless power transmission (MPT). We propose an optimization algorithm to obtain an optimal coefficient of phase shifters and amplitude controllers with maximum RF power transfer ...
Ho Yeol Kim, Sangwook Nam
doaj   +1 more source

A Soft, Flexible Implant for Wireless Photothermal–Pyroelectric Neurostimulation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A replication strategy is used to enlarge the exposed surface area of barium titanate within flexible films with embedded carbon nanotubes, enabling efficient photothermal‐pyroelectric stimulation. Polar crystalline nanosheets show superior performance in guiding neural progenitor cells toward neuronal differentiation.
Jiang Wu, Minmin Mao, Beltzane Garcia Cirera, Hao Ye, Xiangzhong Chen, Josep Puigmartí‐Luis, Ni Qin, Salvador Pané   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source