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Showing papers in "Journal of Bionic Engineering in 2017"


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TL;DR: An anthropomorphic prosthetic hand using flexure hinges, which is controlled by the surface electromyography signals from 2 electrodes only, which can perform prehensile postures for activities of daily living and carry objects under the control of EMG signals is presented.

93 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, transition metals and their oxide materials have been widely employed to fabricate superhydrophobic surfaces, not only because of their surface topography with controllable microstructures leading to water-repellence, diverse adhesion even tunable wettability, but also due to a variety of special properties like optical performance, magnetism, anti-bacterial, transparency and so on.

71 citations


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TL;DR: Comparisons of sEMG and FMG when predicting wrist, forearm and elbow positions using signals extracted from the forearm only indicate that the forearm FMG pattern is highly influenced by the change of elbow position, while the forearm s EMG is less subjected to the change.

54 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the effect of reinforcement natural fiber in the form of braided yarn woven fabric on mechanical properties of polymer composite was investigated, and the results of the composite were compared with the conventional yarn fabric composite and random oriented intimately mixed short fiber composites for the same percentage of fiber weight.

52 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, a kinematic model based feedback controller was created based on data fitting of experimental data, but the controller was unable to yield satisfactory performance due to uncertainties from environmental factors; i.e., the time to reach target pose under adverse flow condition is too long.

46 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, mathematical modeling for peristaltic flow of Rabinowitsch fluid model is considered in a non-uniform tube with combined effects of viscous dissipation and convective boundary conditions.

46 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, an electrically actuated lower extremity exoskeleton is developed, in which only the knee joint is actuated actively while other joints linked by elastic elements are actuated passively.

44 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, a generic gait synthesis for the humanoid robot COMAN is presented, based on the essential Gait Pattern Generator (GPG), which offers enhanced capabilities for the locomotion under different purposes, and also provides the data storage and communication mechanisms among different modules.

39 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, a superhydrophobic and superoleophilic copper mesh was fabricated by etching and then surface modification with 1-dodecanethiol (HS(CH2)11CH3).

38 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, two reference mixtures with diametrically opposed characteristics in terms of density, porosity, compression strength and elasticity modulus were developed from two reference materials: Normal Density Concrete and Functional Graded Concrete.

33 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the effects of hybridization on the morphology, structure, and mechanical properties of jute/epoxy hybrid laminated biocomposites were investigated, and the average technique and the laminates theory were performed to validate the coherence of the elastic moduli between the calculated and experimental values.

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TL;DR: In this article, the response of human osteoblast-like osteosarcoma cells to surface modification of Ti-6Al-4V implant alloy was investigated by Laser Interference Lithography (LIL).

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TL;DR: The signs of osteoclasts accumulation, neo-angigenesis and new bone formation were observed, which make PHB/20% HA promising for bone tissue engineering.

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TL;DR: In this paper, an exploratory case study aimed at evaluating how force myography (FMG) behaves when a person with amputation uses a hand prosthetic prototype was presented. But the results provided initial evidence that this technology could represent an interesting alternative that is worth exploring for controlling prosthesis.

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TL;DR: In this article, the effects of water absorption and sunlight exposure on some properties of the composites were investigated, such as tensile and flexural strength reduced slightly both under the water immersion and sun exposure.

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TL;DR: In this article, an advanced electro-active dry adhesive, which was composed of a mushroom-shaped fibrillar dry adhesive array actuated by an Ionic Polymer Metal Composite (IPMC) artificial muscle reinforced with nitrogen-doped carbon nanocages (NCNCs), was developed to imitate the actuation of a gecko's toe.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the power extraction performance of a semi-activated flapping foil in gusty flow was investigated by using the commercial software FLUENT, where the foil is forced to pitch around the axis at one-third chord and heave in the vertical direction due to the period lift force.

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TL;DR: In this article, the Boundary Element Method (BEM) is used to simulate piezoelectric effects on bones when shearing forces are applied to collagen fibers to make them slip past each other.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a gait training machine based on a quantitative gait analysis is proposed, which is composed of a body weight support device and a cable-driven parallel robot, which reproduces a normal gait movement through the motion of the orthosis.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a hand exoskeleton system was designed to pull the fingers and measure the dynamics of the hand, and the finger muscular forces were estimated and analyzed through the application of inverse dynamics-based static optimization.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a rotary actuator with a bionic driving mechanism imitating the centipede foot is presented, which can be operated step by step and all steps have high reproducibility.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors combined both experimental measurements and numerical simulations to investigate the kinematical characteristics, aerodynamic performance and power requirement of ascending flight in fruit flies (Drosophila virilis).

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TL;DR: Based on the geometrical characteristics of the bamboo weevil larva's incisor, a new bionic mincing blade was designed and manufactured as mentioned in this paper, which was used for Chinese cabbage mincing.

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Limei Tian1, E Jin1, Haoran Mei, Ke Qingpeng1, Ziyuan Li1, Hailin Kui1 
TL;DR: In this paper, a graphene platelet/silicone rubber (GPL/SR) composite was used as a drag reduction material, inspired by the boundary heating drag reduction mechanism of dolphin skin.

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TL;DR: In this article, a quadruped robot with four actuated hip joints and four passive highly compliant knee joints is used to demonstrate the potential of underactuation from two standpoints: learning locomotion and perception.

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TL;DR: In this article, a double-end helical swimmer is proposed based on the usual single end helical one to improve the forward-backward motion symmetry and the propulsion model of the artificial helical microswimmer is described.

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TL;DR: In this article, the impact of mass fraction of carbon fibers and surface oxidation treatment on the tribological properties of carbon fiber reinforced polyetheretherketone (PEEK) composite is explored.

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TL;DR: In this article, a planar simplified model of a quadruped robot with flexible spine motion was introduced and two simulation experiments were carried out to explore the relationship between the optimal spinal stiffness, speed and total mass.

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Jieliang Zhao1, Shaoze Yan1, Liren Deng1, He Huang1, Yueming Liu1 
TL;DR: In this article, a biomimetic nose cone was adopted from honeybee's abdomen to improve both axial scalability and bending properties of aerospace vehicle, which can lead to the super-maneuver flight performance.

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TL;DR: In this article, a parallel actuated pantograph leg with an approximately decoupled configuration is presented to solve the problems of high acceleration, high energy consumption, high pace frequency and ground impact during high-speed movement.