When peanuts are harvested, the high rate of pod crush and pods leakage are the main problems in the current peanut fruit picking process. Optimized peanut picking rollers help to improve peanut harvesting efficiency. This paper investigates the frui...
Citrus harvesting is time-intensive and labor-intensive, relying mainly on manual harvesting. The automatic harvesting of fruit and vegetable crops can not only reduce the physical labor of fruit farmers in the harsh field environment but also greatl...
Double-arm picking robots are widely used in agricultural production for their high collaborative efficiency. While picking, area planning and collision detection between the mechanical arms is a crucial challenge for the double-arm robot, which need...
The task of gripping has been identified as the rate-limiting step in the development of tree-fruit harvesting systems. There is, however, no set of universally adopted ‘specifications’ with standardized measurement procedures for the cha...
In two laboratory trials, natural products, including freshly picked leaves from spearmint, rosemary, and tansy plants, a water extract from soybean plants, peels from a common cucumber, and 1% peppermint oil in hexane, were placed in a moist harbora...
13 March 2022
Onychophagia (nail biting) and onychotillomania (nail picking) are chronic nail conditions categorized as body-focused repetitive behavior (BFRB) disorders. Due to a limited awareness of their clinical presentations, embarrassment on the part of pati...
The land used for fruit cultivation now exceeds 120 million hectares globally, with an annual yield of nearly 940 million tons. Fruit picking, the most labor-intensive task in agricultural production, is gradually shifting toward automation using int...
This paper aims to address the problem of the low success rate of seedling picking and throwing, and the high damage rate of pot seedling, caused by the unclear interaction and parameter mismatch between the seedling picking end effector and the pot...
Points of Subjective Equality (PSE) are commonly measured using staircase or constant stimuli methods. However, the staircase method is highly dependent on the step size, and the constant stimuli method is time-consuming. Thus, we wanted to develop a...
Background and Objectives: Most rugby sprints begin in motion, yet standardized testing uses static starts. This study compared static-start and pick-up acceleration at entry velocities of 1.5 and 3.0 m·s−1 in female rugby union players,...
In order to solve the problems of easy-to-break kernels and substantial harvest losses during kernel harvesting in breeding trials plot of corn, an ear-picking device and a threshing device of corn plot kernel harvester has been optimized. To automat...
This paper proposes a task decomposition and dedicated reward-system-based reinforcement learning algorithm for the Pick-and-Place task, which is one of the high-level tasks of robot manipulators. The proposed method decomposes the Pick-and-Place tas...
In-person culinary medicine (CM) can improve health behaviors, but its translation to virtual platforms and impact on diabetes outcomes are not well described. We designed a pragmatic trial comparing the effectiveness of virtual CM (eCM) to Medical N...
Achieving successful human–agent collaboration in the context of smart environments requires the modeling of human behavior for predicting people’s decisions. The goal of the current study was to utilize the TBR and the Alpha band as elec...
Visual perception is a key challenge for tea-harvesting robots because tender buds must be distinguished from dense foliage under variable illumination and localized rapidly enough to support grasping on embedded hardware. We developed COS-DETR, a de...
In recent years, with the gradual expansion of the planting area for Chinese crab apple trees, the traditional method of picking crab apples has become inadequate due to its large workload, low efficiency, and high cost. To address this issue, this p...
To address the labor intensity and potential vegetative damage associated with mechanical picking of Osmanthus fragrans at full bloom, this study proposed a selective separation mechanism using a flexible roller-brush. Biomechanical measurements esta...
Pick’s disease (PiD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by dementia, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, and the aggregation of 3R tau in pathognomonic inclusions known as Pick bodies. The term PiD has adopted many...
Reaching, grasping, and placing delicate fresh produce are among the most labor-intensive operations in agricultural production, yet most robotic solutions remain task-specific, single-crop systems that generalize poorly across the morphological dive...
Background: The application of continuum manipulators as assistive robots is discussed and tested through the use of Bendy ARM, a simple manually teleoperated tendon driven continuum manipulator prototype. Methods: Two rounds of user testing were per...
Aiming at the reliability of ear picking and the consistency of stalk chopping length in the process of corn ear and stalk harvesting, a new type of corn harvester with both ear and stalk harvesting based on exciting ear picking was developed. Based...
Mechanical harvesters with small box and semi-automated bin handling systems are increasingly being used for harvesting wild blueberries in Eastern Canada, and Northeastern, USA. However, their field capacity and performance have not been quantified...
The bottom of the ocean is rich in mineral resources, and deep-sea mining has been a research hotspot in recent years. As a key part of deep-sea mining operation, polymetallic nodule collection technology has been researched in many countries around...
Research on cancer therapies focuses on processes such as angiogenesis, cell signaling, stemness, metastasis, and drug resistance and inflammation, all of which are influenced by the cellular and molecular microenvironment of the tumor. Different str...
Seismic-while-tunneling signals acquired during coal-mine excavation are typically characterized by strong nonstationarity, intense mechanical noise, weak reflection responses, unstable inter-trace phases, and complex waveform fluctuations. These cha...
With the increase in the expectancy of the life span of humans, neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) have imposed a considerable burden on the family, society, and nation. In defiance of the breakthroughs in the knowledge of the pathogenesis and underlyi...
Accurate object classification and position estimation is a crucial part of executing autonomous pick-and-place operations by a robot and can be realized using RGB-D sensors becoming increasingly available for use in industrial applications. In this...
Manipulation involves both fine tactile feedback, with dynamic transients perceived by fingerpad mechanoreceptors, and kinaesthetic force feedback, involving the whole hand musculoskeletal structure. In teleoperation experiments, these fundamental as...
Laparoscopic surgeons are at high risk of experiencing musculoskeletal discomfort, which is considered the result of long-lasting static and awkward body postures. We primarily aimed to evaluate whether passive and active work breaks can reduce ratin...
Large-scale clinical trials have shown that rehabilitation robots are as affective as conventional therapy, but the cost-effectiveness is preventing their uptake. This study investigated whether a low-cost rehabilitation robot could be deployed in a...
Autonomous mobile robots need reliable path planning and local execution. Plenty of tools exist to evaluate either global planners or controllers. The open-source automated frameworks built for Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2) do not measure computat...
11 March 2020
Since the introduction of evidence-based medicine, there have been discussions about the epistemic primacy of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) for establishing causality in medicine and public health. A growing movement within philosophy of scienc...
Lifting and carrying heavy objects is a major aspect of physically intensive jobs. Wearable sensors have previously been used to classify different ways of picking up an object, but have seen only limited use for automatic classification of load posi...
As a mediator between lipid metabolism dysfunction, oxidative stress and inflammation, oxidized low-density lipoprotein (oxLDL) is a promising therapeutical target in a wide range of metabolic diseases. In mice, pneumococcal immunization increases an...
The poor adaptability of existing harvesting machinery and low work efficiency is observed due to the low-level mechanized harvesting of Xinjiang jujube orchards. A mechanical floor-standing jujube picker was designed on the basis of the characterist...
Driven by orchard labor shortages and rising demand for intelligent harvesting, automated apple picking requires a balance between conformal enveloping and slip-resistant stability. To reduce damage and slippage caused by fragile skins, variable morp...
This paper presents a mobile manipulation platform designed for autonomous depalletizing tasks. The proposed solution integrates machine vision, control and mechanical components to increase flexibility and ease of deployment in industrial environmen...
Individuals with reduced mobility, including the growing elderly demographic and those with spinal cord injuries, often face significant challenges in daily activities, leading to a dependence on assistance. To enhance their independence, we propose...
We explore the ways in which animate objects can be used to cue actions as part of coaching in Activities of Daily Living (ADL). In this case, changing the appearance or behavior of a physical object is intended to cue actions which are appropriate f...
Sphingolipidoses are defined as a group of rare hereditary diseases resulting from mutations in the genes encoding lysosomal enzymes. This group of lysosomal storage diseases includes more than 10 genetic disorders, including GM1-gangliosidosis, Tay&...
Niemann–Pick type C (NPC) disease is a wide-spectrum clinical condition classified as a neurovisceral disorder affecting mainly the liver and the brain. It is caused by mutations in one of two genes, NPC1 and NPC2, coding for proteins located in the...
The rapid development of science and technology, and the restructuring of the mining extraction industry, bring about profound changes in the structure and complexity of technological equipment used in mining. In this paper, the Reliability Centered...
Delivering an automated external defibrillator (AED) to a patient suffering from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) as quickly as possible is a critical task. In this field, airborne drones may help to overcome long response times, especially in m...
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive diagnostic technique able to provide information about the anatomical, structural, and functional properties of different organs. A magnetic resonance (MR) scanner employs radiofrequency (RF) coils t...
Yeast strains are widely used in ruminant production. However, knowledge about the effects of rumen native yeasts on ruminants is limited. Therefore, this study aimed to obtain a rumen native yeast isolate and investigate its effects on growth perfor...
Checkpoint inhibitor therapy revolutionized the treatment of patients with melanoma. However, in patients where melanoma exhibits resistance to checkpoint inhibitor therapy, the treatment options are limited. Oncolytic viruses are a unique form of im...
This study investigated the application of Covariant Hamiltonian Optimization for Motion Planning (CHOMP) in the MATLAB programming environment to an industrially relevant Universal Robots UR5e six-DOF manipulator. The parameters were set to be equal...
Dental stem cells have been isolated from the medical waste of various dental tissues. They have been characterized by numerous markers, which are evaluated herein and differentiated into multiple cell types. They can also be used to generate cell li...
Safer and more efficient characterization of radioactive environments requires exploring intelligently, utilizing robotic systems which use smart strategies and physics-based statistical models. Bayesian Optimization (BO) provides one such statistica...
Robotic harvesting has become an urgent need for the development of the apple industry, due to the sharp decline in agricultural labor. At present, harvesting apples using robots in unstructured orchard environments remains a significant challenge. T...
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