In addition to high compliance unstructured environments, soft robots can be further improved gain the advantages of rigid by increasing stiffness. Indeed, realizing adjustable stiffness continuum provide safer interactions with objects and greatly expand their application range. To address above situation, we propose a tubular stiffening segment based on layer jamming. It temporarily increase ...

This study proposes a model that utilizes soft computing and Markov Chains within a data mining framework to observe the stability of customer segments. The segmentation process in this study includes clustering of existing consumers and classification-prediction of segments for existing and new customers. Both a combination and an integration of soft computing techniques were used in the propo...

Polyurethanes (PUs) have been considered good candidates to be used in biomedical temporary devices that require mechanical properties comparable to soft tissues. However, toxicity of some PUs is still a concern, since these polyurethanes can contain potential toxic components and residual organic solvents derived from their synthesis. In this work, in vitro tests to measure viability and proli...

Point cloud data obtained by laser scanning can be used for object shape modeling and analysis, including forest inventory. One of the inventory tasks is individual tree extraction measurement. However, segmentation, especially crown challenging. In this paper, we present a novel soft segmentation algorithm to segment crowns in point clouds automatically reconstruct surface from segmented cloud...

This paper presents a novel framework for speaker diarization. We explicitly model intra-speaker inter-segment variability using a speaker-labeled training corpus and use this modeling to assess the speaker similarity between speech segments. Modeling is done by embedding segments into a segment-space using kernel-PCA, followed by explicit modeling of speaker variability in the segment-space. O...

A series of isosorbide-based thermoplastic polyurethanes (ISB-TPUs) with different soft/hard ratios have been successfully step polymerized using individual two types polycaprolactone diol (PCL) or poly (tetramethylene glycol) (PTMG) for soft segment and bio-based isosorbide (ISB) methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) hard segment, based on the similar molecular weight. The effect structure mec...