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4 Creating new ways of working with patient transfer: the patient transfer and rehabilitation (PTR) robot supporting caregivers and patients

BMJ Open Quality, 2023
Franziska Kirstein, Helle Gaub, Lone Jager Linquist, Britta Geleijns   +3 more
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Construction robotics

Autonomous Robots, 2006
[abstFig src='/00280002/01.jpg' width=""300"" text='A humanoid robot riding an excavator' ]The following article reviews past and current tendencies and derives and describes opportunities for construction robotics and automation. There substantial evidence in the construction industry, that conventional construction methodology has reached its limits.
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Co-Robots as Care Robots

CoRR, 2020
Accepted paper of the AAAI 2020 Spring Symposium "Applied AI in Healthcare: Safety, Community, and the Environment" (Stanford University).
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Continuous Optical Zoom Compound Eye Imaging Using Alvarez Lenses Actuated by Dielectric Elastomers

Biomimetics
The compound eye is a natural multi-aperture optical imaging system. In this paper, a continuous optical zoom compound eye imaging system based on Alvarez lenses is proposed.
Chuanxun Chen, Qun Hao, Lin Liu, Jie Cao, Zhibo Qiao, Yang Cheng   +5 more
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Robotics [PDF]

HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik, 2020
Sara D'Onofrio, Stefan Meinhardt
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A lightweight prosthetic hand with 19-DOF dexterity and human-level functions

Nature Communications
A human hand has 23-degree-of-freedom (DOF) dexterity for managing activities of daily living (ADLs). Current prosthetic hands, primarily driven by motors or pneumatic actuators, fall short in replicating human-level functions, primarily due to limited ...
Hao Yang, Zhe Tao, Jian Yang, Wenpeng Ma, Haoyu Zhang, Min Xu, Ming Wu, Shuaishuai Sun, Hu Jin, Weihua Li, Liu Wang, Shiwu Zhang   +11 more
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Fuzzy Adaptive Control for a 4-DOF Hand Rehabilitation Robot

Actuators
This paper presents the development of a fuzzy-PID control able to adapt to several robot–patient interaction modes by monitoring patient evolution during the rehabilitation procedure.
Paul Tucan, Oana-Maria Vanta, Calin Vaida, Mihai Ciupe, Dragos Sebeni, Adrian Pisla, Simona Stiole, David Lupu, Zoltan Major, Bogdan Gherman, Vasile Bulbucan, Ionut Zima, Jose Machado, Doina Pisla   +13 more
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Switchable adhesion of phase-transition eutectogels with integrated machine learning-enhanced intelligent adhesion sensing

Nature Communications
Switchable adhesion underpins emerging technologies in robotics, microelectronics, and biomedical engineering. However, achieving switchable surface adhesion that can adapt to substrates with varying material compositions and surface roughness, while ...
JiaQing He, JiaHao Li, HanYang Dong, DeYun Chen, ChangHong Linghu, Qiang Zhou, YinBo Zhu, ShuRong Sheng, HengAn Wu, Wei Feng   +9 more
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Enhancing Robotic-Assisted Lower Limb Rehabilitation Using Augmented Reality and Serious Gaming

Applied Sciences
Stroke, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and Parkinson’s disease are some of the conditions that can lead to neuromotor disabilities requiring rehabilitation.
Calin Vaida, Gabriela Rus, Paul Tucan, José Machado, Adrian Pisla, Ionut Zima, Iosif Birlescu, Doina Pisla   +7 more
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Modeling of a 4-DOF Flexible Laparoscopic Instrument for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery

Robotics
Background: Flexible surgical instruments for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (RAMIS) face a critical limitation: the inability to rotate the distal head while the instrument is in a bent configuration, which restricts the maneuverability in ...
Calin Vaida, Ionut Zima, Florin Graur, Bogdan Gherman, Vasile Bulbucan, Paul Tucan, Alexandru Pusca, Florin Zaharie, Pierre Mougenot, Adrian Pisla, Damien Chablat, Nadim Al Hajjar, Doina Pisla   +12 more
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