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This paper describes the initial design, control system development and preliminary testing of a robotic gait training device which aims to help teach and/or improve the gait patterns of children affected by cerebral palsy (CP). An H-frame, timing-belt driven, 2 degree-of-freedom stage has been designed and built to guide a child's leg through a gait pattern during over-ground training. The end-effector...
It is important to increase the production efficiency of large wind power generators. Because magnet segmentation reduces the size of each magnet, the segmented magnets can be fabricated relatively easily. It also features the advantages of reducing the cogging torque and improving the efficiency of permanent-magnet machines by decreasing the eddy-current loss. Despite this benefit, a disadvantage...
Modeling of low severity soft-tissue injury due to unwanted collisions of a robot in collaborative settings is an important aspect to be treated in safe physical Human-Robot Interaction (pHRI). Up to now, safety evaluations for pHRI were mainly conducted by using safety criteria related with impact forces and head accelerations. These indicate severe injury in the robotics context and leave out low...
In recent years, the potential for collision between humans and robots has drawn much attention since service robots are increasingly being used in the human environment. A safe robot arm can be achieved using either an active or passive compliance method. A passive compliance system composed of purely mechanical elements often provides faster and more reliable responses to dynamic collision than...
Collision safety between humans and robots has drawn much attention since service robots are increasingly being used in human environments. A safe robot arm based on passive compliance can usually provide faster and more reliable responses for dynamic collision than an active one involving sensors and actuators. Since both positioning accuracy and collision safety of the robot arm are equally important,...
Collision safety between humans and robots has drawn much attention because service robots are increasingly being used in human environments. The design of a service robot usually requires reliable collision analysis based on appropriate safety criterion. Previous safety criteria are too restrictive or generous with respect to collision injury. This paper proposes a new safety criterion for physical...
The increasing requirement for robotic applications in dynamic unstructured environments is motivating the need for dextrous end-effectors which have the wide variety of tasks and objects encountered in these environments. The human hand is a very complex grasping tool that can handle objects of different sizes and shapes. Many research activities have been carried out to develop artificial robot...
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