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Power Assist Control for Walking Aid by HAL Based on Phase Sequence and EMG

  • Lee, Suwoong;Yoshiyuki Sankai
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.46.1-46
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    • 2001
  • This paper describes a control method of hybrid power assistive system for lower body, HAL, with the techniques of Phase Sequence and the application of EMG. Our objective is to attain the power assist control of motion in the lower body effectively with these two methods. The Phase Sequence which performs basic motion controls of HAL is the method that a motion, the Task, is accomplished by dividing each motion into the unit named Phase and ...

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Autonomous mobile robot yamabico and its ultrasonic range finding module

  • Song, Minho;Yuta, Shinichi
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1989.10a
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    • pp.711-714
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    • 1989
  • Autonomous mobile robot Yamabico and his newly developed ultrasonic range finding module(URF) are described. Yamabico is a self-contained autonomous robot for in-door environment. It has a modularized architecture, which consists of master module, ultrasonic range finding module, locomotion module, voice synthesizer module and console. Newly developed ultrasonic range finding module has a 68000 processor and Dual-port memory for communication. It controls the ultrasonic transmitters and receivers and calculate the range distances for 12-direction, simultaneously within every 60 milliseconds.

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Production of the taste-modifying protein, miraculin, in transgenic lettuce

  • Ezura, Hiroshi;Sun, Heyon-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Plant Biotechnology Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.126-131
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    • 2005
  • Richadella dulcifica, a native shrub in tropical West Africa, gives red berries that have the unusual property of modifying a sour taste into a sweet taste. The red berries contain a taste-modifying protein named miraculin. A synthetic gene encoding miraculin was placed under the control of constitutive promoters and transferred to lettuce. High expression of miraculin was obtained, with accumulation of up to 1% total soluble protein in lettuce leaf. In addition, the miraculin expressed in lettuce possesses a taste-modifying activity.

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Toxicological Effects of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Quinones Contaminated in Diesel Exhaust Particles

  • Kumagai, Yoshito;Taguchi, Keiko
    • Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.28-35
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    • 2007
  • Accumulated epidemiological and animal studies have suggested that prolonged exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM) is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and pulmonary dysfunction. While diesel exhaust particles (DEP) contain large variety of compounds, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a dominant component contaminated in DEP. This article reviews effects of two PAH quinones, 9,10-phenanthraquinone (9,10-PQ) and l,2-naphthoquinone (l,2-NQ), on vascular and respiratory systems.

Synthesis of a Complex $R^1CR$ filter with finite transmission zeros

  • Kikuchi, Hidehiro;Ishibashi, Yukio
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2002.07c
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    • pp.1863-1866
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    • 2002
  • This paper describes synthesis of a complex R$^{i}$ CR filter with a finite transmission zero except zero frequency. First, a new kernel function is proposed. Secondly, how to determine the element values included in the R$^{i}$ CR filter is described. A fifth-order R$^{i}$ CR filter is designed. Finally, the sensitivity property of the proposed filter is evaluated through computer simulation.

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Analysis of Feedback Queues with Priorities

  • Hong, Sung-Jo;Hirayama, Tetsuji
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.137-146
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    • 1993
  • We consider single server feedback queueing systems with priorities. In the model, there are J stations and job classes. Jobs of class i arrive at station i according to a Poisson process, and have a general service time distribution. We derive the generating functions of the number of jobs at each station just after a busy period and the formula for the mean sojourn time that a specific tagged job spends at station j from its arrival to departure from the system.

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A Note on Synthesis of a Complex Coefficient BPF Based on a Real Coefficient BPF

  • Shouno, Kazuhiro;Ishibashi, Yukio
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2000.07b
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    • pp.571-574
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    • 2000
  • A complex coefficient filter obtained by directly exchanging several reactance elements included in a real coefficient, filter for imaginary valued resistors is described. By using the proposed method, four varieties of complex coefficient filter are obtained. The stability problem is described. Finally, the frequency responses of the proposed kiters are shown.

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Construction of Glomerular Epithelial Cells Expressing Both Immune Tolerance and GFP Genes and Application to Cell Therapy by Cell Transplantation

  • Ohga, Masahiro;Ogura, Mariko;Matsumura, Mastoshi;Wang, Pi-Chao
    • Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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    • v.7 no.5
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    • pp.303-310
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    • 2002
  • Cell therapy applied to wound healing or tissue regeneration presents a revolutionary realm to which principles of gene engineering and delivery may be applied. One promising application is the transplantation of cells into the wounded tissue to help the tissue repair. However, when cells are transplanted from in vitro to in vivo, immune rejection occurs due to the immune response triggered by the activation of T-cell, and the transplanted cells are destroyed by the attack of activated T-cell and lose their function. Immune suppressant such as FK506 is commonly used to suppress immune rejection during transplantation. However, such kind of immune suppressants not only suppresses immune rejection in the periphery of transplanted cells but also suppresses whole immune response system against pathogenic infection. In order to solve this problem, we developed a method to protect the desired cells from immune rejection without impairing whole immune system during cell transplantation. Previously, we reported the success of constructing glomerular epithelial cells for removal of immune complex, in which complement receptor of type 1 (CR1) was over-expressed on the membrane of renal glomerular epithelial cells and could bind immune complex of DNA/anti-DNA-antibody to remove immune complex through phagocy-tosis [1]. Attempting to apply the CR1-expressing cells to cell therapy and evade immune rejection during cell transplantation, we constructed three plasmids containing genes encoding a soluble fusion protein of cytolytic T lymphocyte associated antigen-4 (CTLA4Ig) and an enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP). The plasmids were transfected to the above-mentioned glomerular epithelial cells to express both genes simultaneously. Using the clone cells for cell transplantation showed that mice with autoimmune disease prolonged their life significantly as compared with the control mice, and two injections of the cells at the beginning of two weeks resulted in remarkable survivability, whereas it requires half a year and 50 administrations of proteins purified from the same amount of cells to achieve the same effect.