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Open AccessDesign of A Novel Wheel-Legged Robot with Rim Shape Changeable Wheels
The wheel-legged hybrid structure has been utilized by ground mobile platforms in recent years to achieve good mobility on both flat surfaces and rough terrain. However, most of the wheel-legged robots only ha...
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Open AccessNuBot: A Magnetic Adhesion Robot with Passive Suspension to Inspect the Steel Lining
The steel lining of huge facilities is a significant structure, which experiences extreme environments and needs to be inspected periodically after manufacture. However, due to the complexity (crisscross welds...
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Open AccessTask-Oriented Topology System Synthesis of Reconfigurable Legged Mobile Lander Integrating Active and Passive Metamorphoses
To explore hostile extraterrestrial landforms and construct an engineering prototype, this paper presents the task-oriented topology system synthesis of reconfigurable legged mobile lander (ReLML) with three o...
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Open AccessInverted Modelling: An Effective Way to Support Motion Planning of Legged Mobile Robots
This paper presents an effective way to support motion planning of legged mobile robots—Inverted Modelling, based on the equivalent metamorphic mechanism concept. The difference from the previous research is t...
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System Design, Localization, and Forced-Based Trajectory Evaluation of the Magnetic Adhesion Robot
As the ultimate safeguard in nuclear power plants, the steel lining requires periodic weld inspection to ensure safety. Although robots have been developed to replace dangerous and inefficient manual inspectio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design of a Novel Wheel-Legged Robot with Rim Shape Changeable Wheels
The wheel-legged hybrid structure has been utilized by ground mobile platforms in recent years to achieve good mobility on both flat surface and rough terrain. However, many designs of the obstacle-crossing pa...
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Elastodynamic Modeling and Optimization of Parallel Mechanism with Tube Structure
Elastodynamic model of parallel mechanism is important to elastodynamic optimization. Long prismatic pairs composed of tube structure are very common in the parallel mechanism. This work uses the kinematic pai...
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Design and Analysis of a Novel Magnetic Adhesion Robot with Passive Suspension
The steel lining of large facilities is an important structure that experiences extreme environments and requires periodical inspection after manufacture. However, due to the complexity of their internal envir...
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Open AccessConjunctival granulomatous capillary haemangioma in children: case report and review of the literature
Granulomatous capillary haemangioma refers to a benign vascular tumour that commonly affects the skin, with occasional involvement of the mucosa. Reports of conjunctival granulomatous capillary haemangioma in ...
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MALAT1 knockdown promoted cell viability and migration of LPS-treated MG-63 cells via sponging miR-212
Most fractures could heal after treatment, around 5–10 % of patients still develop delayed union and nonunion. Evidence has increasingly shown that abnormal expression of long noncoding RNAs is closely related...
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The Metamorphic Variable-Axis Revolute Hinge and Its Induced Reconfiguration of Robotic Legged Lander
The robotic legged lander has three operation modes from adjusting, landing, to roving. To facilitate its reconfiguration reliably, this paper firstly introduces the design of a novel metamorphic variable-axis...
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Novel design of a family of legged mobile landers based on decoupled landing and walking functions
The lander has made a significant contribution to soft landings and exploration of an extraterrestrial surface. To further expand its detection range and meet the needs of base construction in the future, it i...
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Mixed-layer adaptive slicing for robotic Additive Manufacturing (AM) based on decomposing and regrou**
AM, generally known as 3D printing, is a promising technology. Robotic AM enables the direct fabrication of products possessing complex geometry and high performance without extra support structures. Process p...
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Dimensional Synthesis for the Chang’e-Type Legged Mobile Lander Based on Performance Atlas
Legged mobile lander (LML) possesses both landing and walking functions with the promising application prospect in extraterrestrial exploration. There are three challenges on the dimensional synthesis method f...
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Project-Based Teaching Skills for University Course of Mechanism and Machine Science
The Mechanism and Machine Science (MMS) course is a fundamental engineering course to enable undergraduates to understand the analysis, design and operation principle of modern machines evolving rapidly nowada...
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Open AccessGut Dysbiosis with Minimal Enteritis Induced by High Temperature and Humidity
High temperature and humidity (HTH) can cause diarrhea owing to food and drinking water contamination. However, their direct effects on gut microbiota and gastrointestinal inflammation are unknown. This study ...
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Open AccessModeling and Configuration Design of Electromagnetic Actuation Coil for a Magnetically Controlled Microrobot
Non-contact actuated microbeads have attracted a lot of attention in recent years because of its enormous potential in medical, biological, and industrial applications. Researchers have proposed a multitude of...
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Novel Design of the Actuation-Transmission System for Legged Mobile Lander Considering Large Impact
Landing and mobile exploration on the Moon and Mars has become a hot research topic recently. As a new exploration strategy, our previous work proposed the idea of the robot integrated with landing and walking...
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On Project Based Teaching of Mechanical Design Course for Undergraduates in Shanghai Jiao Tong University
The course of mechanical design is to enable students in the university to understand, analyze and improve current machines as well as invent and develop new machines. Modern machines are mechatronic instead o...
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The Design of Legged Mobile Welding Robot
The mobility of wheeled or orbital mobile welding robot is constrained by obstacles, uneven terrain or orbit. A new legged mobile welding robot which can surmount obstacles and move freely on uneven terrain i...