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A Computer Method for the Dynamic Analysis of a System of Rigid Bodies in Plane Motion

  • Attia, Hazem-Ali
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.193-202
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    • 2004
  • This paper presents a computer method for the dynamic analysis of a system of rigid bodies in plane motion. The formulation rests upon the idea of replacing a rigid body by a dynamically equivalent constrained system of particles. Newton's second law is applied to study the motion of the resulting system of particles without introducing any rotational coordinates. A velocity transformation is used to transform the equations of motion to a reduced set. For an open-chain, this process automatically eliminates all of the non-working constraint forces and leads to an efficient integration of the equations of motion. For a closed-chain, suitable joints should be cut and few cut-joints constraint equations should be included. An example of a closed-chain is used to demonstrate the generality and efficiency of the proposed method.

Real-time Marker-free Motion Capture System to Create an Agent in the Virtual Space (가상 공간에서 에이전트 생성을 위한 실시간 마커프리 모션캡쳐 시스템)

  • 김성은;이란희;박창준;이인호
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2002.06c
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    • pp.199-202
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    • 2002
  • We described a real-time 3D computer vision system called MIMIC(Motion interface f Motion information Capture system) that can capture and save motion of an actor. This system analyzes input images from vision sensors and searches feature information like a head, hands, and feet. Moreover, this estimates intermediated joints as an elbow and hee using feature information and makes 3D human model having 20 joints. This virtual human model mimics the motion of an actor in real-time. Therefore this system can realize the movement of an actor unaffectedly because of making intermediated joint for complete human body contrary to other marker-free motion capture system.

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A Numerical Method for Dynamic Analysis of Tracked Vehicles of High Mobility

  • Lee, Ki-Su
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.14 no.10
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    • pp.1028-1040
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    • 2000
  • A numerical method is presented for the dynamic analysis of military tracked vehicles of high mobility. To compute the impulsive dynamic contact forces which occur when a vehicle passes on a ground obstacle, the track is modeled as the combination of elastic links interconected by pin joints. The mass of each track link, the elastic elongation of a track link between pin joints by the track tension, and the elastic spring effects on the upper and lower surfaces of each track link have been considered in the equations of motion. And the chassis, torsion bar arms, and road wheels of the vehicle are modeled as the rigid multi bodies connected with kinematic constraints. The contact positions and the contact forces between the road wheels and track, and the ground and the the track are simultaneously computed with the solution of the equations of motions of the vehicle consisting of the multibodies. The iterative scheme for the solution of the multi body dynamics of the tracked vehicle is presented and the numerical simulations are conducted.

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Multi-Attitude Heading Reference System-based Motion-Tracking and Localization of a Person/Walking Robot (다중 자세방위기준장치 기반 사람/보행로봇의 동작추적 및 위치추정)

  • Cho, Seong Yun
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.66-73
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    • 2016
  • An Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)-based Attitude and Heading Reference System (AHRS) can calculate attitude and heading information with long-term accuracy and stability by combining gyro, accelerometer, and magnetic compass signals. Motivated by this characteristic of the AHRS, this paper presents a Motion-Tracking and Localization (MTL) method for a person or walking robot using multi-AHRSs. Five AHRSs are attached to the two calves, two thighs, and waist of a person/walking robot. Joints, links, and coordinate frames are defined on the body. The outputs of the AHRSs are integrated with link data. In addition, a supporting foot is distinguished from a moving foot. With this information, the locations of the joints on the local coordinate frame are calculated. The experimental results show that the presented MTL method can track the motion of and localize a person/walking robot with long-term accuracy in an infra-less environment.

A Method of Adaptive Leg-end Trajectory Control for a Five-legged Walking Robot

  • Tsunehon, Honda;Kwon, Dong-Soo
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.83.3-83
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    • 2001
  • A method to adaptively control leg-ends trajectories of a five-legged walking robot, Cepheus-2, has been developed in terms of a kind of a table look-up method. Cepheus-2 is a five-legged robot with a pentagonal body with two joints of each leg. The robot control system has a hierarchical autonomic-integrated architecture with a main computer (PC), a manager and servo modules. Being given the goals of walking by the main computer, the manager module assigns a type of leg-end trajectories of which data are described with the work space coordinates for the legs. Every servo module generates the joint angle data. In steady walking of the robot on flat floor without obstacle, two joints have to generate the assigned trajectory and five legs ...

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A Study on the Development of a Program to Body Circulation Measurement Using the Machine Learning and Depth Camera

  • Choi, Dong-Gyu;Jang, Jong-Wook
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.122-129
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    • 2020
  • The circumference of the body is not only an indicator in order to buy clothes in our life but an important factor which can increase the effectiveness healing properly after figuring out the shape of body in a hospital. There are several measurement tools and methods so as to know this, however, it spends a lot of time because of the method measured by hand for accurate identification, compared to the modern advanced societies. Also, the current equipments for automatic body scanning are not easy to use due to their big volume or high price generally. In this papers, OpenPose model which is a deep learning-based Skeleton Tracking is used in order to solve the problems previous methods have and for ease of application. It was researched to find joints and an approximation by applying the data of the deep camera via reference data of the measurement parts provided by the hospitals and to develop a program which is able to measure the circumference of the body lighter and easier by utilizing the elliptical circumference formula.

Analysis on Dynamic Motion of Robotic Arm and Body Mechanism (로봇 팔 및 몸체 메커니즘의 동적 운동특성 분석)

  • Kim, Byoung-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.774-779
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    • 2010
  • This paper analyzes the fundamental dynamic motion of a robotic arm and body mechanism on the platform of a mobile manipulation system. For the purpose, we reveal the dynamic coefficients of a robotic arm and body mechanism, and identify their dominant behaviors in an exemplar trajectory following simulation. We also discuss on their influence for the motion of the body, shoulder, and elbow joints. It is finally expected that this analysis is helpful for effective manipulation tasks by using mobile manipulation systems with an arm and body mechanism.

A Study on the Life Prediction and Quality Improvement of Joint in IC Package (플라스틱 IC 패키지 접합부의 수명예측 및 품질향상에 관한 연구)

  • 신영의;김종민
    • Journal of Welding and Joining
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.124-132
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    • 1999
  • Thermal fatigue strength of the solder joints is the most critical issue for TSOP(Thin Small Outline Package) because the leads of this package are extremely short and thermal deformation cannot be absorbed by the deflection of the lead. And the TSOP body can be subject to early fatigue failures in thermal cycle environments. This paper was discussed distribution of thermal stresses at near the joint between silicon chip and die pad and investigated their reliability of solder joints of TSOP with 42 alloy clad lead frame on printed circuit board through FEM and 3 different thermal cycling tests. It has been found that the stress concentration around the encapsulated edge structure for internal crack between the silicon chip and Cu alloy die pad. And using 42 alloy clad, The reliability of TSOP body was improved. In case of using 42 alloy clad die pad(t=0.03mm). $$\sigma$_{VMmax}$ is 69Mpa. It is showed that 15% improvement of the strength in the TSOP body in comparison with using Cu alloy die pad $($\sigma$_{VMmax}$=81MPa). In solder joint of TSOP, the maximum equivalent plastic strain and Von Mises stress concentrate on the heel of solder fillet and crack was initiated in it's region and propagated through the interface between lead and solder. Finally, the modified Manson-Coffin equation and relationship of the ratio of $N_{f}$ to nest(η) and cumulative fracture probability(f) with respect to the deviations of the 50% fracture probability life $(N_{f 50%})$ were achieved.

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Assessment and Comparison of Isokinetic Strength of Hip, Knee and Ankle Joints in Young Adults

  • Kim, Yong Hwan;Jee, Hae Mi
    • Journal of International Academy of Physical Therapy Research
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.1426-1434
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    • 2018
  • This study was conducted to observe the isokinetic strength (IS) of the hip, ankle, and knee joints in young age groups. Thirty eight men and thirty one women with mean age of $30.4{\pm}3.5$ and $32.8{\pm}4.4years$, respectively, were enrolled in this study. Measurements of hip flexion, extension, abduction, and adduction at $30^{\circ}/sec$, Knee flexion and extension at $60^{\circ}/sec$, ankle inversion, eversion, plantarflexion, and dorsiflexion $30^{\circ}/sec$ were conducted. Absolute IS (Nm), relative IS (Nm/kg), strength ratios, correlations between movements were observed. Significant differences in absolute and relative strength were observed between groups in all movement except in the relative ankle strength. Relative isokinetic strength ratios of hip flexion/extension were .45 and .55, knee flexion/extension were .84 and .89, ankle dorsi/plantarflexion were .30 and .29, and ankle eversion/inversion were .86 and .84 for men and women, respectively. In the hip extension, men had about three times the body weight, and women had about 2.5 times the strength. The abduction muscle had about 1.5 times the body weight of both men and women. Height and body weight showed the significantly strong correlating relationship with hip (r, .76-.86) and knee (r, .67-.84) strength. However, ankle strength showed the comparatively correlating relationship, especially in women (r, .03 - .36). Similar age and physique characteristics of female and male groups could provide useful isokinetic strength reference values for developing the exercise program for healthy and rehabilitation groups.

Evaluation of structural safety reduction due to water penetration into a major structural crack in a large concrete project

  • Zhang, Xiangyang;Bayat, Vahid;Koopialipoor, Mohammadreza;Armaghani, Danial Jahed;Yong, Weixun;Zhou, Jian
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.319-329
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    • 2020
  • Structural damage to an arch dam is often of major concern and must be evaluated for probable rehabilitation to ensure safe, regular, normal operation. This evaluation is crucial to prevent any catastrophic or failure consequences for the life time of the dam. If specific major damage such as a large crack occurs to the dam body, the assessments will be necessary to determine the current level of safety and predict the resistance of the structure to various future loading such as earthquakes, etc. This study investigates the behavior of an arch dam cracked due to water pressure. Safety factors (SFs), of shear and compressive tractions were calculated at the surfaces of the contraction joints and the cracks. The results indicated that for cracking with an extension depth of half the thickness of the dam body, for both cases of penetration and non-penetration of water load into the cracks, SFs only slightly reduces. However, in case of increasing the depth of crack extension into the entire thickness of the dam body, the friction angle of the cracked surface is crucial; however, if it reduces, the normal loading SFs of stresses and joints tractions reduce significantly.