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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design of Pneumatic Cable Maintenance Robot
Aimed to coating, cleaning and inspection of cable for cable-stayed bridges, a pneumatic worming cable maintenance robot is presented. This paper puts forward a design method of modularizing which can simplify...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Short-Term Load Forecasting Based on Bayes and SVR
The short-term load forecasting making use of Support Vectors Regression to be in progress forecasts, when the vector dimension is excessive if importing, not only the training time of Support Vector Machine i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Noise Properties in Spool Valves with Cavitating Flow
Investigations on cavitation noise in non-circular opening spool valves have been conducted in this paper. The cavitation noise is used as a good sign to cavitation process because of its similar trends in dif...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Dynamic Model and Analysis of the Flexible Two-Wheeled Mobile Robot
Aiming to the flexible structure feature of waist, the flexible two-wheeled mobile robot was designed based on dynamics of flexible multi-body system. Adopting the assumed mode method, the robot can be abstrac...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Kinematics of Robot with Castered-and-Cambered Wheels with Respect to Drive Configuration Topology
A universal 3-D kinematic model is first proposed towards a four-wheeled robot with casters and cambers. The effects of caster and camber are next analyzed. Based on closed-chain space and Instantaneous Superp...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Development of Hanging-Arm Inspection Robot for High-Voltage Transmission Line
Since many obstacles such as counterweight, strain clamp, suspension clamp, isolator string and insulation stick along 500 kV high-voltage transmission line, in this work one kind of brand-new mechanical struc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Needle-Holding Robot for Ultrasound Guided Percutaneous Hepatic Microwave Ablation and Initial Experiments
A needle-holding robot for percutaneous hepatic microwave ablation is developed. The overall architecture of the robot is introduced first with the explanation of the mechanism of 3D motion tracking. Two exper...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Application of Touch Sensing Technique Based on Magneto-Rheological Fluid in Constant Power Control of Coal Mining Machine
In this paper, the power control method of coal mining machine of touch sensing technique based on magneto-rheological fluid is presented by analyzing to the performance of haulage and velocity modulation and ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Wheeling-Hop** Combination Scout Robot
A hop** robot can jump over the barrier several times higher than its own height. The combination of the hop** movement and the wheeling movement can greatly enhance the scope of robot’s activities. In thi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Nonlinear Adaptive Variable Structure Trajectory Tracking Algorithm for Mobile Robots
Trajectory tracking control is an important subject for mobile robots, and lots of new algorithms have been presented recently. The tracking algorithm for a scenario of a WMR (wheeled mobile robot) tracking a ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Visual Search in Alzheimer’s Disease — fMRI Study
The aim was to investigate the neural basis of visual attention deficits in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients using functional MRI. Thirteen AD patients and 13 age-matched controls participated in the experime...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automatic Classification of SPECT Images of Alzheimer’s Disease Patients and Control Subjects
In this article we study the use of SPECT perfusion imaging for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. We present a classifier based approach that does not need any explicit knowledge about the pathology. We di...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Visualization and evaluation of prostate needle biopsy
Three-dimensional (3-D) computer visualization is playing an increasingly important role in mcdical imaging applications. Visualization is helpful and important because it provides more flexibility for medical...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Three-Dimensional Reconstruction and Volume Rendering of Intravascular Ultrasound Slices Imaged on a Curved Arterial Path
Past techniques for three-dimensional reconstruction of intravascular ultrasound have assumed that the ultrasound slices are parallel and that the vessel being imaged is straight. These assumptions result in d...