Wearable Sensors and Robots
Proceedings of International Conference on Wearable Sensors and Robots 2015
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Identifying Influencing Factors of Immersion in Remote Collaboration
Working remotely and collaborating with colleagues online has become a prevailing trend. The user experience with various collaboration tools, such as teleconferencing platforms, online whiteboards, and virtua...
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Improving the Efficiency and Pressure Resistance of Inorganic Sealant–Filled Thermoelectric Module
Thermoelectric generators have garnered considerable attention because of their ability to convert thermal energy directly into electricity. In this study, we propose a method to improve the pressure resistanc...
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Wear Resistance Improvement of Keeled Structure and Overlapped Distribution of Snake Scales
The movement mode of snakes is crawling, and the living environment of snakes with numerous branches and stones will cause plenty of wear for the snake scales. There are plenty of surface structures and morpho...
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Design and Control of a Novel Underactuated Soft Exosuit
Soft exosuit is widely researched to assist walking. Lacking of physical compliance in hip exosuits restricts wearing comfort of the system. This paper presents design and control of an underactuated hip exosu...
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Underwater contactless wet-mateable connector using bowl-shaped coils
Wet-mateable connectors enabling power and communication for underwater equipment are greatly favored for underwater systems. However, conventional underwater wet-mateable connectors with electrical contact co...
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Design of bidirectional power converters coupled with coils for wireless charging of AUV docking systems
The docking station is usually deployed at seafloor as a charging node to enhance the endurance of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). However, for deep-sea observation requirements, it is nearly unaffordab...
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Recent Progress of an Underwater Robotic Avatar
This paper presents some of the recent progress of an underwater robotic avatar. The manipulation system of the avatar is enhanced in the terms of compliance, including the arm and the gripper. A rigid-foldabl...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Virtual Team Collaboration: How the Empathy Tendency Influences User Experience?
The subjective experiences and satisfaction of using technology to collaborate remotely may differ due to the individual differences of personal characteristics. The present study aims to investigate the influ...
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Open AccessMachine-learning-based children’s pathological gait classification with low-cost gait-recognition system
Pathological gaits of children may lead to terrible diseases, such as osteoarthritis or scoliosis. By monitoring the gait pattern of a child, proper therapeutic measures can be recommended to avoid the terribl...
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AUV Docking Method in a Confined Reservoir with Good Visibility
Underwater docking technology enables autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to execute long-term observation missions by periodically recovering and recharging AUVs. The conventional AUV homing and docking ope...
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The pressure compensation technology of deep-sea sampling based on the real gas state equation
Compressed gas is usually used for the pressure compensation of the deep-sea pressure-maintaining sampler. The pressure and volume of the recovered fluid sample are highly related to the precharged gas. To bet...
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Open AccessOcean Observation Technologies: A Review
Covering about three quarters of the surface area of the earth, the ocean is a critical source of sustenance, medicine, and commerce. However, such vast expanse in both surface area and depth, presents myriad ...
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Magnetic field optimization for high-positioning-tolerant wireless charging platforms
This paper proposes an omnidirectional high-positioning-tolerant wireless power transfer (WPT) platform using an array of large-scale coil units with moderate overlaps. A generalized magnetic field (MF) desig...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Reducing the Human-Exoskeleton Interaction Force Using Bionic Design of Joints
presents a new method for design of lower body exoskeleton based on optimizing the human-exoskeleton physical interface to improve user comfort. The approach is based on mechanisms designed to follow the na...
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Hand Exoskeleton Control for Cerebrum Plasticity Training Based on Brain–Computer Interface
Rehabilitation therapy with exoskeleton robots has been widely adopted to realize normal traction training of muscles, but the plasticity training of cerebrum is usually ignored during rehabilitation with exos...
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Lower Limb Exoskeleton Using Recumbent Cycling Modality for Post-stroke Rehabilitation
This paper presents a compact exoskeleton robot for post-stroke patients at the early stage of lower limb rehabilitation as soon as they become stable. Unlike the usual walking gait, a new training modality mi...
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Novel gas-tight multi-sampler for discrete deep-sea water
The issues of how to quickly collect seawater samples and of how to make sure that those samples truly reflect the in-situ information on gas composition and concentration have therefore become a hot but difficul...
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A Novel DGO Based on Pneumatic Exoskeleton Leg for Locomotor Training of Paraplegic Patients
This work introduces a new driven gait orthosis (DGO) based on the pneumatical exoskeleton leg for locomotor training. This device can drive the lower-limb of a patient in a physiological way on the moving tre...
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Mechatronic integration and implementation of in situ multipoint temperature measurement for seafloor hydrothermal vent
In order to provide firsthand reference data for model building and analysis of temperature field of seafloor hydrothermal vent, a temperature measurement system is designed, which can be used to measure the t...
