Abstract: Laparoscopic surgery offers significant benefits to patients in low-resource settings compared to open surgery such as faster recovery, less pain, and lower infection rate. However, there exist significant barriers to the ...

Abstract: Numerous natural and synthetic systems can be modeled as clusters of interacting cantilever beams. However, a closed-form mathematical model capable of representing the mechanics of multiple interacting cantilever beams ...

Abstract: This paper presents the static balancing design of a special reconfigurable linkage that can switch between two one-degree-of-freedom (DoF) working configurations. We will show that the studied dual-mode linkage only ...