This paper discusses upper-limb power-assist control using a pneumatic rotary actuator to support shoulder movement and an air cylinder to support elbow move-ment by agricultural workers lifting a 30 kg rice bag without inducing low back pain. Surface electro-myogram (EMG) signals are used as trigger signals, joint support torque is calculated based on the antigra-vity term of necessary joint torque, estimated based on the dynamics of a human approximated link model. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of proposed power-assist control.

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Legg–Calve´–Perthes disease (LCPD) is a significant problem in healthcare because it so commonly affects young adults and immature athletes, primarily gymnasts. In this paper, a two-degree-of-freedom (2-DOF) hip exoskeleton device was developed for study on an immature animal model of exercise-induced LCPD. The exoskeleton device can reproduce the repetitive actions and forceful centrality impingements on the coxafemoral head that occur in sports such as gymnastics and acrobatics. It initiated a new method rather than the traditional medical or physiological operation method to establish an animal model of LCPD and allowed for the development and testing of new treatments. Ten immature New Zealand white rabbits were selected for the experiment. Their right legs were driven to achieve repetitive extension/flexion and abduction/adduction beyond the normal range of motion, with centrality impingements at the maximum flexion position, while their left legs were kept in the initial healthy status and acted as the comparing reference. Four weeks later, the basic symptoms of early LCPD of the femoral head appeared. The results of X-ray, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), gross anatomy observation, and H-E section also revealed it.

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Какие первые мысленные ассоциации вызывает у вас упоминание о компьютерном интерфейсе, управляемом непосредственно мозгом? Лично у меня первым делом в памяти всплывают всевозможные киборги, так красочно описанные Голливудом в многочисленных фантастических боевиках и ужастиках.

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Parallel robots find many applications in human-systems interaction, medical robots, rehabilitation, exoskeletons, to name a few. These applications are characterized by many imperatives, with robust precision and dynamic workspace computation as the two ultimate ones. This paper presents kinematic analysis, workspace, design and control to 3 degrees of freedom (DOF) parallel robots. Parallel robots have received considerable attention from both researchers and manufacturers over the past years because of their potential for high stiffness, low inertia and high speed capability. Therefore, the 3 DOF translation parallel robots provide high potential and good prospects for their practical implementation in human-systems interaction.

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In recent years, parallel robots find many applications in human-systems interaction, medical robots, rehabilitation, exoskeletons, to name a few. These applications are characterized by many imperatives, with robust precision and dynamic workspace computation as the two ultimate ones. Practical methods of kinematic’s calibration make use of the linear differential error of the kinematics’ model. This model is based on the Jacobian of the direct kinematics’ model with respect to parameters of this model. The definition of the robot accuracy is usually related to robot positioning, so that the accuracy is defined as a measure of robot ability to attain a required position with respect to a fixed absolute reference coordinate frame. Such a definition is easily extended to trajectory tracking. Then, accuracy can be defined as a measure of robot ability to track the prescribed trajectory with respect to the absolute coordinate frame.

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