Special Issue on Robotics for Innovative Industry and Society

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshiro Noritsugu
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Underwater Robots ◽  
Assist Devices ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Intelligent Sensors ◽  
Robot Technology ◽  
Manufacturing Applications ◽  
The Government ◽  
Innovative Industry

Robotics has become one of the most important automation technologies for industry and society. Robot components such as actuators and sensors, together with mechanisms and control systems, are being more and more combined with intelligent sensors in innovative industry design and fabrication. Robot technology is being applied in such fields as welfare, education, agriculture, and energy. Robot technology for welfare and nursing is being promoted by the government to increase lifestyle creativity as society ages. This special issue focuses on robotics in fields from manufacturing industries to societal needs. Papers ranging from robotics theory to robot application have been invited. Among the topics covered are robot mechanisms, robot components, actuators, sensors, and controllers, robot control theory, robotic systems, energy saving, industrial applications, automation, vehicles, entertainment, medicine, welfare and nursing applications, and robotics education. The 15 papers presented in this issue include actuators such as rubber artificial muscles or phase-change actuators, pneumatics, power assist devices such as assist glove and upper-limb assist devices, robotic suits, sensor fusion, omnidirectional locomotion, underwater robots, force display apparatuses, meal assistant robots, manufacturing applications of parallel-link mechanisms, surface polishing, and agricultural applications. These papers bring readers the latest state-of-the-art robot technologies useful in everything from analysis and design to control and applications in innovative industries. We thank the authors for their invaluable contributions and the reviewers for their advice – all of which have made this special issue both informative and entertaining.

scholarly journals Special Issue on Pneumatics for Innovative Machine Design

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-471
Author(s):  
Toshiro Noritsugu
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Circuit Analysis ◽  
Machine Design ◽  
Pneumatic Cylinder ◽  
Light Weight ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Typical Application ◽  
Pneumatic Actuators ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Automation Technology

Pneumatics has greatly progressed as convenient multifunctional automation technology. One typical application is in compact light-weight highperformance pneumatic actuators. The introduction of control theory has also enabled useful pneumatic servosystems. New actuators include pneumatic artificial rubber muscles, which are small, light-weight, and soft. These are used for applications in the medical, welfare, and nursing fields. This special issue focuses on actuator development in drive-circuit analysis and design. Issues in these areas include pneumatic actuators, pneumatic rubber muscles, pneumatic circuit analysis and design, energy-saving, pneumatic servocontrol, advanced control systems, industrial applications, automation, vehicles, entertainment, medical, welfare and nursing applications, and education. This special 13-article issue is divided into (i) control design and pneumatic cylinder and bellows applications and (ii) the development and applications of soft pneumatic actuators. Some types of soft pneumatic actuators use artificial rubber muscles for welfare and rehabilitation equipment. This special issue should prove useful in understanding state-of-the-art of pneumatic technology applicable to analysis, design, control, and application in innovative machine design. I would like to express my sincere appreciation to all of the authors and reviewers for their invaluable effort.

Open-Access Genomic Databases

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 659-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Didier
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Genomic Databases ◽  
Clinical Variant ◽  
The Government ◽  
Variant Database

A database organizes information, but since information is produced by actors, it also coordinates the different actors involved with data. Here, focusing on the newly created ClinVar, a genomic clinical variant database, we will see how it helps the government, academia, and industry (represented mainly by the company Illumina) find their positions relative to one another. This essay is part of a special issue entitled Histories of Data and the Database edited by Soraya de Chadarevian and Theodore M. Porter.

scholarly journals Special issue on service robot technology – selected papers from WRS 2018

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 141-141
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Okada ◽  
Tetsunari Inamura ◽  
Kazuyoshi Wada
Keyword(s):  
Service Robot ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Robot Technology

scholarly journals Special Issue: The Antioxidant Capacities of Natural Products

Molecules ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Cardoso
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
Natural Products ◽  
Biological Properties ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Antioxidant Capacities

Antioxidants are under the research spotlight because of their potential to prevent oxidative stress as well as for their versatile biological properties that grant them multiple industrial applications [...]

Progress in Silicon Nitride Ceramics in Japan

1992 ◽  
Vol 287 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Komeya
Keyword(s):  
Silicon Nitride ◽  
Cost Reduction ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Powder Synthesis ◽  
Materials Development ◽  
Nitride Ceramics ◽  
Government Project ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
The Government ◽  
Fine Ceramics

ABSTRACTProgress in silicon nitride ceramics in Japan is reviewed. It is historically divided into three stages. Through these stages, basic experimental research and innovations have progressed along with industrial applications, and the government project on fine ceramics in 1981-1992 has contributed much to the acceleration in the development of silicon nitride ceramics. Focus in this paper is mainly on materials development including raw powder synthesis and exploration for applications. The future prospect of utilizing silicon nitride as an engineering material, however, is seen to depend on cost reduction and reliability improvement.

scholarly journals Editorial on Special Issue “Textile-Reinforced Cement Composites: New Insights into Structural and Material Engineering”

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 576
Author(s):  
Tine Tysmans ◽  
Jan Wastiels
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Fatigue Behaviour ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Fibre Reinforcement ◽  
Cement Composites ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Textile Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Material Engineering ◽  
Reinforced Cement

This special issue presents the latest advances in the field of Textile-Reinforced Cement Composites, including Textile-Reinforced Concrete (TRC), Textile-Reinforced Mortar (TRM), Fabric-Reinforced Cementitious Matrix (FRCM), etc. These composite materials distinguish themselves from other fibre reinforced concrete materials by their strain-hardening behaviour under tensile loading. This Special Issue is composed of 14 papers covering new insights in structural and material engineering. The papers include investigations on the level of the fibre reinforcement system as well as on the level of the composites, investigating their impact and fatigue behaviour, durability and fire behaviour. Both strengthening of existing structures and development of new structural systems such as lightweight sandwich systems are presented, and analysis and design methods are discussed. This Special Issue demonstrates the broadness and intensity of the ongoing advancements in the field of Textile-Reinforced Cement composites and the importance of several future research directions.

scholarly journals Introduction

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Lisa Garforth ◽  
Anselma Gallinat
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Audit Culture ◽  
League Tables ◽  
Theories Of Practice ◽  
Change In Higher Education ◽  
The Government

This introduction sets the theoretical and historical context for this special issue on student engagement. Drawing on literatures about audit culture, governance and change in higher education institutions, and theories of practice, institutions and organisation, it sheds light on the current era of English higher education. The Browne Review led to the withdrawal in 2010 of the majority of the government teaching grant for English universities, and it tripled tuition fees in 2012. In the post-Browne era, ‘engagement’ emerged as an organising concept linked in multiple ways to other objects and discourses, in particular university league tables and measures of student satisfaction; and it was swiftly and often unreflexively translated into visions for developing learning and teaching. This special issue focuses on this specific shift in policy and discourse, exploring institutional change and everyday experience, and reflecting on the power and limits of policies.

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