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Research on the Small Target Recognition Method of Automobile Tire Marking Points Based on Improved YOLOv5s

Applied Sciences, 2023
At present, the identification of tire marking points relies primarily on manual inspection, which is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive but also prone to false detections, significantly impacting enterprise efficiency.
Zhongfeng Guo, Junlin Yang, Jiahui Sun, Wenzeng Zhao   +3 more
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Magnetically Driven Soft Continuum Microrobot for Intravascular Operations in Microscale

Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2022
Remotely controlled soft continuum robots with active steering capability have broad prospects in medical applications. However, conventional continuum robots have the miniaturization challenge.
Dan Liu, Xiaoming Liu, Zhuo Chen, Zhaofeng Zuo, Xiaoqing Tang, Qiang Huang, Tatsuo Arai   +6 more
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Aerodynamic Characteristics and Pitching Adjusting Mechanism of the Flying Squirrel With Deployed Patagium

IEEE Access, 2019
The flying squirrel has a balanced amphibious ability on land and air, especially the ability to glide using their patagium, which makes it an excellent biomimetic object in the design and development of multimodal locomotion robots.
Fei Zhao, Wei Wang, Jingtao Zhang, Justyna Wyrwa, Feng Sun   +4 more
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Ionic shape-morphing microrobotic end-effectors for environmentally adaptive targeting, releasing, and sampling

Nature Communications, 2021
Making environmentally responsive materials often requires the use of multi-material devices. Here, the authors report on the use of electric field patterning of alginate hydrogels to make environmentally responsive actuators and demonstrate a range of ...
Zhiqiang Zheng, Huaping Wang, Lixin Dong, Qing Shi, Jianing Li, Tao Sun, Qiang Huang, Toshio Fukuda   +7 more
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Design and Demonstration of a Flying-Squirrel-Inspired Jumping Robot with Two Modes

Applied Sciences, 2021
The jumping–gliding robot is a kind of locomotion platform with the capabilities to jump on the ground and glide through the air. The jumping of this robot has to juggle the requirements of initial velocity and posture for entry to gliding and ...
Fei Zhao, Wei Wang, Justyna Wyrwa, Jingtao Zhang, Wenxin Du, Pengyu Zhong   +5 more
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Vision-Based Automated Control of Magnetic Microrobots

Micromachines, 2022
Magnetic microrobots are vital tools for targeted therapy, drug delivery, and micromanipulation on cells in the biomedical field. In this paper, we report an automated control and path planning method of magnetic microrobots based on computer vision ...
Xiaoqing Tang, Yuke Li, Xiaoming Liu, Dan Liu, Zhuo Chen, Tatsuo Arai   +5 more
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Magnetic Microrobots Fabricated by Photopolymerization and Assembly

Cyborg and Bionic Systems, 2023
Magnetic soft microrobots have great potential to access narrow spaces and conduct multiple tasks in the biomedical field. Until now, drug delivery, microsurgery, disease diagnosis, and dredging the blocked blood vessel have been realized by magnetic ...
Xiyue Liang, Yue Zhao, Dan Liu, Yan Deng, Tatsuo Arai, Masaru Kojima, Xiaoming Liu   +6 more
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Spatially Adaptive Retina-Like Sampling Method for Imaging LiDAR

IEEE Photonics Journal, 2019
To mitigate the conflict between imaging quality and speed, a spatially adaptive retina-like sampling method for 3-D imaging Lidar based on time-of-flight method is proposed.
Sihui Li, Jie Cao, Yang Cheng, Lingtong Meng, Wenze Xia, Qun Hao, Yami Fang   +6 more
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Toward Illumination-Guided Bilateral Grid Learning in Zero-Reference Low-Light Enhancement

IEEE Access
Images captured in low-light conditions often suffer from overexposure, amplified noise, and uneven illumination. Supervised enhancement methods tend to overfit specific scenes, while unsupervised ones struggle to model degradations without reference ...
Shuiping Zhang, Zhuang Yin, Fanghao Tian, Haiyang Jiang, Chao Wang, Qing Huang, Jin Zhang   +6 more
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A Review on Microfluidic Platforms Applied to Nerve Regeneration

Applied Sciences, 2022
In recent decades, microfluidics have significantly advanced nerve regeneration research. Microfluidic devices can provide an accurate simulation of in vivo microenvironment for different research purposes such as analyzing myelin growth inhibitory ...
Chuankai Dai, Xiaoming Liu, Rongyu Tang, Jiping He, Tatsuo Arai   +4 more
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