OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to examine ground kinetics early in stance while walking on a contaminated surface and assess the potential of kinetics to quantify risk of slipping. BACKGROUND Prior studies of slipping have dismissed early ground kinetic data,and therefore no prior literature has been able to assess the viability of using these data to quantify slip potential. METH...

Drawing from the rich source of proven and often novel mechanisms in the biological realm, biomimetic sensors are being successfully developed for many different transduction tasks. This paper presents such a sensor for transducing displacements. Our sensor is a robotic analog of the biological muscle spindle, an actuated position sensor which transduces muscle displacement for kinesthetic awar...

Microstructures are attracting academic and industrial interest because of the rapid development additive manufacturing. The numerical homogenization method has been well studied for analyzing mechanical behaviors microstructures; however, it is too time-consuming to be applied online computing or applications requiring high-frequency calling, e.g., topology optimization. Data-driven methods co...