Abstract: Endoscopic surgery is a less invasive method of surgery as compared to open surgery. However, indirect vision, limited hand movement and lack of haptic sensation, combined with the tiring posture ...

Abstract: A time-transient nonlinear dynamic analysis is presented to study the motion of statically unloaded journal-bearing tilting pads. The major finding is that unloaded pads can exhibit a strong ...

Abstract: Manipulation of the grasped object is defined as the ability of the mechanical end-effector to create an instantaneous motion of the object with respect to a fixed reference frame (e.g., palm ...