Abstract An upper limb motion assist robot to elderly and disabled people is proposed in this paper. The robot can be mounted on a wheelchair to actuate an elderly person’s upper limb three dimensionally by his will. A wrist of an arm is suspended, and actuated by a wire driven control system. A vibration reduction system is also developed to decrease the vibration occurred in the wire driven s...

This paper outlines the design methodology, sensor configuration and final implementation of the DriMix 4ics robot. The DriMix 4ics is an automated bartending robot whose gross motor functions can be controlled via color segmentation and recognition, while menu driven drink mixing commands are driven by Quick Response Code. The aim of the robot is simplify the ordeal of what at times can be com...

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) are interested in developing more efficient vehicle air conditioning (A/C) systems to reduce fuel consumption in advanced vehicle designs. Vehicle A/C systems utilizing electrically-driven compressors are one possible system design approach to increasing A/C system performance over various drive cycle conditions...