OBJECTIVE Intensive Care Units (ICUs) experience higher infection rates due to the severity of illness and frequent use of invasive devices. Use of personal protective equipment reduces the risk of acquiring an infection. This study has been conducted to determine the role of using shoe covers by medical staff and visitors on infection rates, mortality and length of stay in ICU. METHODS It is...

Abstract. A six-wheeled companion exploration robot with an adaptive climbing mechanism is proposed and released for the complicated terrain environment of planetary exploration. Benefiting from its three-rocker-arm structure, can adapt to complex six wheels in contact ground during locomotion, which improves stability robot. When moves on flat ground, it forward through rotation wheels. encoun...

The paper describes three applications of industrial robot in shoe production. Two of them – automation of shoe lasting machine and automation of finishing process are extremely difficult to automate and are according to our knowledge first successful automation of the above processes. The focus of the paper is on automatic robot trajectory generation directly from CAD shoe design data. The pap...

Several spring-damper-mass models of the human body have been developed in order to reproduce the measured ground vertical reaction forces during human running (McMahon and Cheng, 1990; Ferris et al., 1999; Liu and Nigg, 2000). In particular, Liu and Nigg introduced at the lower level of their model, i.e. at the interface between the human body and the ground, a nonlinear element representing s...

In this presentation, methods to analyze biomechanical data of runners to facilitate classification of the prevailing running surface situation are discussed. We are considering an embedded application example from the field of digital sports: A novel running shoe capable of acquiring parameters specific to the run and setting its cushioning accordingly. The developed classifier is used in the ...