Abstract: The flexure joints are proposed to replace the rigid assembly between the cross-arm and the moving carriages of dual-drive H-type gantry (DHG) for higher reliability and fine rotational alignments. In the literature, the ...

Abstract: Robotic manipulators are complex and dynamic nonlinear mechanical systems subject to numerous uncertainties, such as payload variations, frictions, and unmodeled dynamics. To mitigate the uncertainty caused by these ...

Abstract: The current treatment of otitis media with effusion (OME) when medication fails is to surgically insert a grommet tube in the tympanic membrane. A novel precision surgical device has been developed, which allows tube ...