Группа инженеров из технологического института штата Массачусетс (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) совместно со специалистами других университетов и компаний разрабатывает миниатюрный топливный двигатель, который в будущем сможет заменить батареи и аккумуляторы.

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This paper describes the design, control, and testing of a Human Muscle Enhancer (HME) system that will augment the muscle capabilities of subjects requiring partial lower-limb weight-bearing gait support. The HME described in this paper is a pneumatically actuated quick connec-ting exoskeleton system that attaches to the foot and hip area of the body, thus “closing the lower body kinematic chain. Control of the system is achieved by using encoders at the knee joints and Myo-Pneumatic (MP) Sensors implanted into the shoes and outer garments of the human. To test this design concept, a lower body exoskeleton test fixture has been fabricated. The test fixture mimics the human leg with the top cylinder providing the body weight on the leg. Another cylinder acts as leg muscles to provide the adjustable human reaction of the leg. Preliminary open and closed loop control tests have been performed that demonstate the capability of controlling the HME using the MP sensors.

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With the continuing gain in computing power, bandwidth, and Internet popularity there is a growing interest in Internet communities. To participate in these communities,people need virtual representations of their bodies, called avatars. Creation and rendering of realistic perso-nalized avatars for use as virtual body representations is often too complex for realtime applications such as networked virtual environments (VE). Virtual Environment (VE) designers have had to settle for unbelievable, simplistic avatars and constrain avatar motion to a few discrete positions. The approach taken in this thesis is to use a full-body laser-scanning process to capture human body surface anatomical information accurate to the scale of millimeters. Using this 3D data, virtual representations of the original human model can be simplified, constructed and placed in a networked virtual environment. The result of this work is to provide photo realistic avatars that are efficiently rendered in real-time networked virtual environments. The avatar is built in the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML). Ava-tar motion can be controlled either with scripted behaviors using the H-Anim specification or via wire-less body tracking sensors developed at the Naval Postgraduate School. Live 3D visualization of animated humanoids is viewed in freely available web browsers.

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This paper describes the design, control, and testing of a Human Muscle Enhancer (HME) system that will augment the muscle capa-bilities of subjects requiring partial lower-limb weight-bearing gait support. The HME described in this paper is a pneumatically actuated quick connecting exoskeleton system that attaches to the foot and hip area of the body, thus closing the lower body kine-matic chain. Control of the system is achieved by using encoders at the knee joints and Myo-Pneumatic (MP) Sensors implanted into the shoes and outer garments of the human. To test this design concept, a lower body exoskeleton test fixture has been fabricated. The test fixture mimics the human leg with the top cylinder providing the body weight on the leg. Another cylinder acts as leg musc-les to provide the adjustable human reaction of the leg. Preliminary open and closed loop control tests have been performed that de-monstate the capability of controlling the HME using the MP sensors.

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