The development of artificial robotic skin is motivated by the necessity to provide robots with a rich and direct feedback of their interaction with themselves and the world. In this paper, we present a technology independent approach to build artificial skin from hexagonal shaped, intelligent unit cells, featuring cell-2-cell communication. The uniform design of the building block enables mass...

in this paper an automatic examination robot was developed to improve the process of cancer detection, tumor localization and geometrical shape diagnosis. a uniformly distributed compressive load was applied to the top tissue surface and the resultant mechanical stress was measured that was employed for the tumor diagnosis task. the experimental examinations were performed on the soft tissue of...

Sudha Ramasamy, Karthikesh.R, Manikandan.P, Padma Thiagarajan School of Electrical Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, India. School of Biosciences and Technology, VIT University, Vellore, India E-Mail: [email protected] Abstract The aim of this work is to transfer liquid contents from one micro cell to another using two stepper motors and a peristaltic pump. There are two objectives here. One...

Park BJ, Melfi F, Mussi A, et al. Robotic lobectomy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): longterm oncologic results. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2012;143(2):383-389. A large series of patients with early-stage, non–small-cell lung cancer undergoing robotic-assisted lobectomy (RAL) was reviewed to assess long-term oncological efficacy. The authors determined that RAL is associated with low rate...

A no-wait robotic cell is an automated ow shop in which a robot is used to move the parts from a machine to the next. Parts are not allowed to wait. We analyze the complexity of the part sequencing problem in a robotic cell with three machines, for di erent periodical patterns of robot moves, when the objective is productivity maximization. c © 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Recent developments in the area of smart structures indicate that variable geometry / stiffness truss network is of fundamental importance in designing smart transformable structures and systems for space applications. This paper presents the conceptual design and dynamic modeling of a cooperative re-configurabel dual-arm robotic structure called Dual-Arm Cam-Lock Manipulator. The Manipulator i...

Coupled task scheduling problems were first studied more than 25 years ago. Several complexity results have been established in the meantime, but the status of the identical task case still remains unsettled. We describe a new class of equivalent one-machine no-wait robotic cell problems. It turns out that scheduling of identical coupled tasks corresponds to the production of a single part type...