Takeshi Okuyama, M. Sone, Y. Tanahashi, Mami Tanaka
{"title":"Palpation sensor using two PVDF films","authors":"Takeshi Okuyama, M. Sone, Y. Tanahashi, Mami Tanaka","doi":"10.1117/12.858316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858316","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, a prototype polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) palpation sensor has been developed. The sensor aims to measure stiffness, which is one of the information of biomedical tissue by palpation. The sensor is composed of two PVDF films, a silicone cylindrical column, and an aluminum cylinder. And the classification of hardness is concerned with the ratio of these PVDF outputs. In this paper, the output behavior of the palpation sensor was evaluated in detail by the experimental and numerical approach, and the suitable design to diagnose by the stiffness of tissue was investigated. Using the finite element analysis, the sensor output behavior was predicted. It is confirmed that the analysis is available for investigation of the dimension and the limitation of the sensor against the measuring object.","PeriodicalId":250590,"journal":{"name":"ICMIT: Mechatronics and Information Technology","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117226097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantitative research for virtual mobile robot design cycle based on PERT","authors":"Jingkun Wang, K. Chong","doi":"10.1117/12.858572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858572","url":null,"abstract":"75% to 80% of the mobile robot cost is determined by robots design, and to a large extent the efficiency of the production of robots and their performance are also determined. Quantitative evaluation of the virtual design cycle has been plagued robot designers. In this paper, CBD technique is used to design the mobile robots. Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) is used to compare quantitatively the design cycle between virtual design and traditional design. By way of comparison between the virtual design and traditional design used in the design process for the mobile robots, virtual design cycle was shortened the design cycle by more than 40 percent. And at the circumstances of same design cycle, the completion probability of using virtual design is much higher than the designs of using traditional design.","PeriodicalId":250590,"journal":{"name":"ICMIT: Mechatronics and Information Technology","volume":"293 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123407435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A simple peak impact force estimation method for a multi-DOF manipulator with joint servo","authors":"Seonghee Jeong, Takayuki Takahashi","doi":"10.1117/12.858853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858853","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposed a simple estimation method of peak impact force by a multi-D.O.F manipulator controlled by a joint servo on collision with a human or an environment. In the proposed method, an impact model of the manipulator including both compliances of joint servo and a soft material on a link is described as a 1-D.O.F impact model. Taylor expansion is introduced to more exactly estimate the peak impact force using the time that the value of time-derivative of the impact force equals to 0. As a result, the peak impact force is described as an algebraic function and can be easily and quickly estimated. Simple impact simulations using a 2-D.O.F manipulator were conducted to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method. From the simulation results, it was confirmed that the estimated value of the peak impact force was in accordance with a peak point of a impact force calculated by numerical method.","PeriodicalId":250590,"journal":{"name":"ICMIT: Mechatronics and Information Technology","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122671801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chaotic time series analysis of vision evoked EEG","authors":"N. Zhang, Hong Wang","doi":"10.1117/12.858256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858256","url":null,"abstract":"To investigate the human brain activities for aesthetic processing, beautiful woman face picture and ugly buffoon face picture were applied. Twelve subjects were assigned the aesthetic processing task while the electroencephalogram (EEG) was recorded. Event-related brain potential (ERP) was required from the 32 scalp electrodes and the ugly buffoon picture produced larger amplitudes for the N1, P2, N2, and late slow wave components. Average ERP from the ugly buffoon picture were larger than that from the beautiful woman picture. The ERP signals shows that the ugly buffoon elite higher emotion waves than the beautiful woman face, because some expression is on the face of the buffoon. Then, chaos time series analysis was carried out to calculate the largest Lyapunov exponent using small data set method and the correlation dimension using G-P algorithm. The results show that the largest Lyapunov exponents of the ERP signals are greater than zero, which indicate that the ERP signals may be chaotic. The correlations dimensions coming from the beautiful woman picture are larger than that from the ugly buffoon picture. The comparison of the correlations dimensions shows that the beautiful face can excite the brain nerve cells. The research in the paper is a persuasive proof to the opinion that cerebrum's work is chaotic under some picture stimuli.","PeriodicalId":250590,"journal":{"name":"ICMIT: Mechatronics and Information Technology","volume":"266 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114534246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study on the geometry dimension effect of heavy rail through compound roll straightening","authors":"P. Wang, Hua Song, Ming Chen","doi":"10.1117/12.858354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858354","url":null,"abstract":"The paper starts with the active straightening regulations of the compound-roller straightener in certain factory. It adopted the explicit dynamics FEM software ANSYS/LS-DYNA and carried out the numerical simulation calculation of the compound-roller straightening process for 60 kg/m heavy rail with original curvature. It also made post-processing program to manage the simulation results and obtained the geometry dimension changing information of heavy rail after straightening. It analysed the geometry dimension changing conditions of heavy rail after straightening. It has great reference value to improve the quality of heavy rail.","PeriodicalId":250590,"journal":{"name":"ICMIT: Mechatronics and Information Technology","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130126133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study about fractal neural network diagnosis method and application","authors":"Xiang-lin Hou, Xi-Jian Zheng, Y. Fei","doi":"10.1117/12.859678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.859678","url":null,"abstract":"In This paper, Fractal calculating dimension is firstly put forward. Combined Fractal theory with Neural network, A Fractal Neural network identification methods is built and applied to the state control and fault diagnosis of Mechanical equipment. This network is made of three layers construct: Input layer, hide layer and output layer. Input and output of standard samples are respectively Fractal calculating dimension of different period sampling and the unit matrix equal to sample numbers. Weight and threshold of network is rapidly and correctly computed by conjugate terraced optimization. Rolling bearing fault is perfectly identified by this diagnosis way.","PeriodicalId":250590,"journal":{"name":"ICMIT: Mechatronics and Information Technology","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130769225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advanced haptic sensor for measuring human skin conditions","authors":"Daisuke Tsuchimi, Takeshi Okuyama, Mami Tanaka","doi":"10.1117/12.858439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858439","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is concerned with the development of a tactile sensor using PVDF (Polyvinylidene Fluoride) film as a sensory receptor of the sensor to evaluate softness, smoothness, and stickiness of human skin. Tactile sense is the most important sense in the sensation receptor of the human body along with eyesight, and we can examine skin condition quickly using these sense. But, its subjectivity and ambiguity make it difficult to quantify skin conditions. Therefore, development of measurement device which can evaluate skin conditions easily and objectively is demanded by dermatologists, cosmetic industries, and so on. In this paper, an advanced haptic sensor system that can measure multiple information of skin condition in various parts of human body is developed. The applications of the sensor system to evaluate softness, smoothness, and stickiness of skin are investigated through two experiments.","PeriodicalId":250590,"journal":{"name":"ICMIT: Mechatronics and Information Technology","volume":"147 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131183385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. F. Salleh, R. Ikeura, Shahriman Abu Bakar, T. Yano
{"title":"A motion analysis of humans performing a cooperative task in anteroposterior direction","authors":"A. F. Salleh, R. Ikeura, Shahriman Abu Bakar, T. Yano","doi":"10.1117/12.858856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858856","url":null,"abstract":"A motion analysis was conducted on two humans namely Leader and Follower, while both of them cooperatively moving an object by their hands from one point to the other in anteroposterior direction. The experimental condition was set by manipulating the information of the cooperative task starting signal and termination position given to the Follower. The Minimum Jerk Model was used to evaluate the smoothness of the cooperative task quantitatively. The result was interesting, when all information is available, the task was smoothly done. If some information is not available, Follower will utilize the force acting on his hand to understand and predict the movement of the Leader during the cooperative task.","PeriodicalId":250590,"journal":{"name":"ICMIT: Mechatronics and Information Technology","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133687442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measuring principle and technology of accumulate pitch error of large gear","authors":"J. Jin, Lei Dong, F. Zhao","doi":"10.1117/12.858447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858447","url":null,"abstract":"On the basis of the research and analysis of measuring principle of the gear accumulate pitch, it was concluded: spacing-tooth relative method was applied for the large gear whose diameter was over 2.5m, to measure its accumulate pitch error so that measuring error was reduced, its measuring precision was improved. For the characteristics of gear's inertia in measuring process, on-machine measuring instrument of gear's total accumulative pitch error on large hobbing machine was designed. The origin and compensation method of the measuring system error were analyzed and studied, which determined the formation cause and affect law measurement error resulted from comprehensive geometric eccentricity of measured gear installation, a rational error compensation method was proposed, which made measurement accuracy further improve.","PeriodicalId":250590,"journal":{"name":"ICMIT: Mechatronics and Information Technology","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133950833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shahriman Abu Bakar, R. Ikeura, A. F. Salleh, T. Yano
{"title":"Understanding the ideal cooperative characteristic between two humans","authors":"Shahriman Abu Bakar, R. Ikeura, A. F. Salleh, T. Yano","doi":"10.1117/12.858574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858574","url":null,"abstract":"Observing current lifestyles and human growth performance in these past decades we can make a deduction that human workforce going to be reduced until a serious level. We believed that in critical field such as health industries, robots that cooperated with human to handle human patient will provide the help needed to fill the gap. In order to design human cooperative robot that will be able to act and react with human-like features so that the robot can replace the human counterparts, we need to understand how human communicates with human first. This paper discussed the ideal characteristic of how two humans cooperate to complete a cooperative task. The cooperative task experiment involved carrying experiment object in several direction and varying the information available to the experiment subjects. We calculated the smoothness during the cooperative task to understand the ideal cooperative characteristic between two humans.","PeriodicalId":250590,"journal":{"name":"ICMIT: Mechatronics and Information Technology","volume":"42 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128451745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}