Laser based cutting processes comprise a significant part of industrial manufacturing. To ensure a high level of cutting quality the process parameters have to be kept at the right values and within defined tolerances. In this context, the position of the laser beam focus is one of the most important parameters. However, due to thermal heating of optical elements the focal position shows a tran...

Cutting sticking operation is essential on a chrysanthemum production to enhance its productivity, since many cuttings can be obtained from one mother plant. Usually, human being manually sticks the cuttings to plug tray, however, it takes a lot of time and much labor, since the number of cuttings is said to be about 200 million in a district where yields the highest number of chrysanthemums in...

BACKGROUND Drilling is used in the medical field, especially in oral surgery and orthopaedics. In recent years, oral surgery involving dental implants has become more common. However, the risky drilling process causes serious accidents. To prevent these accidents, supporting systems such as robotic drilling systems are required. METHODS A telerobotic-assisted drilling system is proposed. An a...

pBR322/Ultraviolet irradiation/Restriction endonuclease/Pyrimidine dimer Plasmid pBR322 DNA was irradiated with ultraviolet light at 254 nm and digested with various restric tion endonucleases. Analyses of the products suggested that the pyrimidine dimers which would have been formed just across the cutting site (Acc I), at the opposite position of the cutting site (Hind III, Eco RI, Bam HI), a...

Flexible blade cutting applied on thick layers of foam is very feasible for creating large sized physical models. The heated tool is set and moved in a circumferential tool motion along the front face of the layer. During these primary motions the cutting tool is positioned in order to ensure the best tool position and tool orientation for the cutting process. The adjustment of the tool positio...

Abstract  A position control algorithm for a beltdriven servomechanism of a laser-cutting machine is described. High-accuracy position tracking control procedure for the system with inherent elasticity due to the low-cost belt-driven servomechanism is derived using sliding mode motion control strategy and Lyapunov design. The control design results in continuos sliding mode control law. It pos...

Laser cutting is a complex multi-input multi-output machining process. To satisfy different requirements regarding laser cut quality it is necessary to determine optimal laser cutting conditions. This paper demonstrates the application of the grey relational analysis for optimization of different laser cut quality characteristics such as the depth of separation line, drag line separation and bu...

The “Haptic Scissors” is a device that creates the sensation of cutting in virtual environments. The scissors have two degrees of freedom of motion and force feedback, one for cutting (single blade rotation) and one for translation. An algorithm was developed to simultaneously display translational and cutting forces for a realistic cutting simulation. In previous work, we used filtered data fr...

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of initial bone cutting of the distal femur and the proximal tibia in TKA using an image-free navigation system. Methods: From February 2006 to March 2013, we evaluated 60 knees in 50 patients using an image-free navigation system (Navigation: Stryker Navigation Cart System; Software: Stryker Knee Navigation; Ver2.0: Stryker Orthopa...