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12 Stability Analysis of Cylindrical Shells with Random Imperfections
As an example of imperfection sensitive structures, the axially compressed cylindrical shell is analyzed in the subsequent sections. Despite of its...
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2 Outline
The monograph is structured as follows: Part I including Chapts. 3–6 reviews briefly the theoretical background of the deterministic methods and...
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17 A Concept for Control of Indoor-Operated Autonomous Wheelchair
The present chapter introduces a navigation algorithm for a wheelchair in semistructured home environment. The user sets the end position and...
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18 Design of an Intelligent Wheelchair for the Motor Disabled
As rehabilitation technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence, and computer science have been rapidly developed, the dream of overcoming...
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8 Selectable Operating Interfaces of the Meal-Assistance Device “My Spoon”
Eating is a basic need for humans. In fact, it is so basic that most people are not aware of the motions that they use while eating. For some...
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Fuzzy Equational Logic
Equational logic deals with identities (equations) like x+y ≈ y+x, x.(y+z) ≈ x.y + x.z, dec(inc(x)) ≈ x, etc. Identities are simple formulas which...
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20 Human-Friendly Care Robot System for the Elderly
In this paper, “Do-u-mi”, a robotic care system is introduced (Do-u-mi means “helper” in Korean) (see Fig. 20.1). It is particularly aimed at the...
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24 A Wrist Extension for MIT-MANUS
In 1991, a novel robot named MIT-MANUS was introduced as a test bed to study the potential of using robots to assist in and quantify the...
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19 Electrically Assisted Walker with Supporter-Embedded Force-Sensing Device
An electrically assisted walking aid with a force-sensing device embedded in its supporting arm has been developed. The force sensor consists of a...
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27 Great Expectations for Rehabilitation Mechatronics in the Coming Decade
This paper discusses the opportunities in the future for applications of mechatronics in rehabilitation. Trends in demographics, computer science and...
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Multimedia Medical Informatics System in Healthcare
In our modern 21st century, daily life would be unthinkable without computers. Multimedia and virtual reality are useful for people with spein...
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8 Karhunen-Loève Expansion
In the following, second order stochastic processes are considered, i.e. random functions x(t) satisfying E{x(t)2}<∞,...
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13 Random Vibrations of Multi-Story Structures
The procedure described in Sec.11 is now applied to both a multi degree of freedom system (12-story building, 36 degrees of freedom) and a large...
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1 Objectives
Complex deterministic systems under deterministic loading are generally analyzed by the finite element method. This is mainly due to the most...
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B Lyapunov Matrix Differential Equation
The state space equation of the system defined in (6.18) is given by, see e.g. [91],...
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Federated quantum long short-term memory (FedQLSTM)
Quantum federated learning (QFL) can facilitate collaborative learning across multiple clients using quantum machine learning (QML) models, while...
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Attention-based RNN with question-aware loss and multi-level copying mechanism for natural answer generation
Natural answer generation is in a very clear practical significance and strong application background, which can be widely used in the field of...
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Smart manufacturing platform based on input-output empirical relationships for process monitoring
Intelligent monitoring and maintenance protocols are undoubtedly crucial for improving manufacturing processes. Accordingly, machine learning...
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Automatic control of UAVs: new adaptive rules and type-3 fuzzy stabilizer
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become important in an extensive range of fields such as surveillance, environmental monitoring, agriculture,...
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Hardware Efficient Reconfigurable Digital Hearing aid using Pascal Structure
This paper proposes a hardware efficient reconfigurable digital hearing aid with minimum delay and minimum matching error, employing Pascal structure...
