Physical disfigurement due to congenital defects, trauma, or cancer causes considerable
distress and physical impairment for millions of people worldwide; impacting their economic …

Body-powered prostheses are known for their advantages of cost, reliability, training period,
maintenance, and proprioceptive feedback. This study primarily aims to analyze the work …

The concept of a statically balanced mechanism with a single rotational degree-of-freedom
is presented. The proposed device achieves static balancing by combining positive stiffness …

This paper presents a design methodology to determine spring configuration on statically
balanced planar articulated manipulator. From the energy perspective, the summation of …

Conventional brakes require a powerful actuator, leading to large, heavy and in most cases
energy consuming brakes. This paper introduces a fundamentally different brake concept …

Background: Cosmetic gloves that cover a prosthetic hand have a parasitic positive stiffness
that counteracts the flexion of a finger joint. Objectives: Reducing the required input torque to …

The addition of a cosmetic glove to an upper limb prosthesis has a distinct effect on the
cosmetic value, but its viscoelastic behaviour adds a substantial amount of stiffness and …

Prosthetics is an important field in engineering due to the large number of amputees
worldwide and the associated problems such as limited functionality of the state of the art …

The instability of negative stiffness materials or systems is rooted in their thermodynamic
state, which is not in equilibrium with its environment. In this paper, a model of a chain of …

This dissertation o ers ways that the dexterity and guidance associated with image-guided
robotic surgery can be delivered without automation. The overall objective is to provide …