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Stair‐Climbing Wheelchairs for Enhanced Mobility: A Comprehensive Review of Fundamental Mechanisms, Design Concepts, and Performance Analysis

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT People with physical disabilities face significant mobility challenges while climbing uneven surfaces and staircases. In these circumstances, traditional wheelchairs do not provide stable, safely controlled mobility, underscoring the importance of building superior stair‐climbing wheelchairs for both medical and infrastructure purposes.
Gopisetti Manikanta, S. M. Abhinandan, Anand Reddy, G. Chandana, Divya, P. Anil Kumar, Ch. Venkata Rao, Ashish Garg, Ravi C. Soni, Jogendra Kumar, Bhargav Akkinepally   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Enhanced Soft‐Containing Gripper for Pick‐And‐Place of Oyster Products at Extreme Handling Speed

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Soft robotic grippers have been developed for high‐speed handling of soft, fragile foods. For example, our previously designed soft‐containing gripper has been implemented on food production lines. However, existing soft robotic grippers remain inadequate for food pick‐and‐place tasks at extreme handling speeds (e.g., > 70 pcs/min).
Yang Zhang, Zhongkui Wang
wiley   +1 more source

A Compact Annular Electrostatic Clutch Joint: Dynamic Response Modeling and Time‐Sharing Control for Underactuated Robots

SmartBot, EarlyView.
Electrostatic clutches offer programmable variable stiffness for multi‐DOF robots, but their continuous motion is usually bottlenecked by spatial constraints and detachment delays. Here, the authors report a compact annular electrostatic clutch joint with a biphasic amplitude‐frequency modulation strategy to rapidly mitigate residual polarization ...
Haochen Yong, Jian Wang, Zhisheng Xia, Zhexuan Li, Han Ding, Zhigang Wu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vine Tendril‐Inspired Cold‐Programmable Shape‐Memory Polymer Composites Using Sugar Beet Pulp

Small, EarlyView.
Vine tendrils inspire a bio‐derived, cold‐programmable shape‐memory polymer composite (SMPC). Magnetically guided sugar beet pulp creates mesoscale heterogeneity within a glassy matrix, producing built‐in mechanical asymmetry for rapid, solvent‐free programming by simple stretching.
Wei Huang, Vikramjeet Singh, Yu Wang, Junhao Chen, Mingjing Zhang, Gary J. Lye, Helen C. Hailes, Luna Jiang, Eral Bele, Manish K. Tiwari   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Topological Structuring of Adhesive Layers to Enhance Resistance against Interfacial Fracture

Small, EarlyView.
A hybrid bonding method that combines chemical affinity with mechanical interlocking is demonstrated. This approach uses a solution‐based technique to create a porous layer that strongly adheres to one substrate and templates a robust mechanical interlock with the other adherend. By tuning the pore geometry, crack propagation is effectively suppressed,
Shunto Arai
wiley   +1 more source

Unlocking n‐alk‐1‐ynes conformers: Quantum “trigger finger” versus “stiff joint” conformations

Smart Molecules, EarlyView.
Quantum chemical analysis reveals the unique function of n‐alk‐1‐yne terminus as a Quantum “Trigger Finger,” exhibiting two near‐isoenergetic conformers (Cs ${\mathrm{C}}_{s}$and C1 ${\mathrm{C}}_{1}$) locked by a symmetric high barrier. This contrasts with the lower asymmetric barrier of the conventional asymmetric “Stiff Joint” alkyl chain.
Ioan Bâldea
wiley   +1 more source

Unveiling Van Der Waals Forces and Associated Hamaker Constants Across the Nanomaterial Landscape With Advanced Atomic Force Microscopy

Small Methods, EarlyView.
Van der Waals interactions are reviewed through the lens of advanced atomic force microscopy, highlighting recent progress in nanoscale quantification of Hamaker constants. Emerging methodologies enable high‐resolution mapping of intermolecular forces in 2D materials and biological systems, bridging experimental measurements with quantum‐informed ...
Amir Farokh Payam, Horacio V. Guzman, Alexandre Tkatchenko   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Toward the Application of Multiaxial Failure Criteria: Mean Stress Sensitivity of Carbide‐Rich, High‐Alloy PM‐HIP Tool Steels Under Axial and Torsional Cyclic Loading

steel research international, EarlyView.
This study quantifies axial and torsional long‐life fatigue (LLF) behavior of three carbide‐rich PM‐HIP tool steels, correlating LLF strength with intrinsic defect size and cleanliness, thereby extracting material‐specific mean stress sensitivities and Haigh diagrams.
Lennart Mirko Scholl, Frederik Tegeder, Tobias Hajeck, Alexander Bezold, Christoph Broeckmann   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Simple and detailed modeling of corrosion‐affected slender shear critical RC beams

Structural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract The corrosion of steel bars compromises both the safety and the serviceability of reinforced concrete (RC) structures. Consequently, reliable tools are required to estimate the detrimental effects of corrosion on the structural response of RC members subjected to transverse loads.
Nino Spinella, Pier Paolo Rossi
wiley   +1 more source

Regression‐based models for the torsional stiffness reduction factor in reinforced concrete beams under combined torsion and shear

Structural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper presents a regression‐based methodology to estimate the Torsional Stiffness Reduction Factor (TSRF) of reinforced concrete beams under combined torsion and shear. A numerical database of 6816 samples was generated using the Combined Action Softened Truss Model (CA‐STM) implemented in Python, considering design guidelines prescribed ...
Khrys K. S. Medeiros, Jordlly R. B. Silva, Bernardo Horowitz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source