Abstract: Pneumatic muscle actuators offer a higher forcetoweight ratio compared to traditional cylinder actuators, and introduce stickslipfree operation that offers an interesting option for positioning systems. Despite several ...

Abstract: The innovations propelling the manufacturing industry towards Industry 4.0 have begun to maneuver into machine tools. Machine tool maintenance primarily concerns the feed drives used for workpiece and tool positioning. ...

Abstract: Farming and agriculture is an area that may benefit from improved use of automation in order to increase working hours and improve food quality and safety. In this paper, a commercial robot was purchased and modified, and ...

Abstract: Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)-based casting method was used to fabricate PDMS cell culture platforms with molds printed by a fused deposition modeling (FDM) printer. Cell viability study indicated that the produced plates ...