Celebrating JRM Volume 20 and Three Epoch-making Robots from Japan

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-3
Author(s):  
Kazuo Yamafuji
Keyword(s):  
Inverted Pendulum ◽  
Industrial Robot ◽  
Biped Robot ◽  
Scara Robot ◽  
Founding Editor ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Biped Walking Robot ◽  
Japanese Companies ◽  
The University

The Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics is celebrating its 20th volume since its launch in 1989. As the JRM’s founding Editor-in-Chief, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to all of those persons and organizations that have helped make the JRM so successful. This is also a time for celebrating the development of three epoch-making robots in Japan between 1978 and 1997. Scara Robot: The Scara robot was developed in 1978 by Professor Hiroshi Makino of Yamanashi University and four Japanese companies – Fujitsu, Telmec, Ultrasonic Ind. Co., and Sankyo. As John Hartley wrote in ""The Industrial Robot"" (March 1982, UK), ""More startling, perhaps, was the announcement that IBM was to sell Sankyo Skilam robot in the USA as the IBM 7535. Most of Japanese robots were based on overseas designs. The exception, of course, is the Scara robot.” The Scara was honored as the first Japanese robot dedicated at the Robotic Pavillion at Carnegie Mellon University in 2006. Parallel Bicycle Robot: The parallel bicycle (PB) robot developed in 1986 by Professor Kazuo Yamafuji of the University of Electro-Communications was driven by a parallel bicycle consistting of a pair of parallel wheels and an inverted pendulum body supported on the wheel axis. The PB robot has been applied both to locomotion for mobile robots and to personal vehicles. It was first successfully commercialized as the Segway Personal Transporter developed by Dean Kamen in 2001 in the US. Applications to a humanoid drive were realized by Toyota in 2004 and by Hitachi in 2007. Biped Walking Robot: Honda introduced its epoch-making humanoid P2 with biped and double hand in 1997. Driven by an on-board battery, the biped robot walked smoothly for over 30 minutes at 4 km/h similar to a human being. Honda P2 movie surprised and delighted people worldwide, and its release of ASIMO in 2002 was an advanced type of P2. ASIMO has became the de facto standard of the biped humanoid and is expected to have many applications in social and industrial environments.

Development of the SCARA

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Makino ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Robot ◽  
Robot Arm ◽  
Scara Robot ◽  
The University

The Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm, or SCARA, is an industrial robot typical of those widely used in assembly processes. It was invented by Professor Makino of the University of Yamanashi, Japan, the author of this report, and developed by him in collaboration with his colleagues and industrial partners. The first prototype of the SCARA robot was built in 1978. Fundamental studies were done on the characteristics and usability of this prototype and the second one, built in 1980. In 1981, some industrial partners began to market their own versions of the SCARA. These models were called SCARA-type robots. This report recounts mainly the first stage of the development of the SCARA.

Edward Shils (1910–1995)

1995 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julius Gould
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
Advisory Board ◽  
National Council ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Edward Shils ◽  
The University

EDWARD SHILS WAS A PROLIFIC, FORMIDABLE AND unconventional sociologist. Sustained by his immense learning and extraordinary memory, and following the traditions of Max Weber and of the Chicago School, he brought other disciplines (notably European social and political thought) to bear upon his sociology. Over his long and productive lifetime he held positions in the most distinguished of universities: in England these included the LSE, Manchester and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He regularly spent about half of every year in Cambridge. Above all he was a loyal and long-serving teacher at the University of Chicago where he was distinguished service professor and had been among those who established the Committee of Social Thought. His scholarship was recognized in the USA by the invitation of the US National Council on the Humanities to give the prestigious Jefferson Lecture in 1979 and in Europe by the award of the Balzan Prize for service to general sociology in 1983. Government and Opposition has itself lost a most valued contributor and member of its Advisory Board.

Can skilled immigration raise innovation? Evidence from Canadian Cities

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 879-901 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Blit ◽  
Mikal Skuterud ◽  
Jue Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Engineering Technology ◽  
Skilled Immigrants ◽  
The Us ◽  
Skilled Immigration ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Skilled Immigrant ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Abstract We examine the effect of changes in skilled-immigrant population shares in 98 Canadian cities on per capita patents. The Canadian case is of interest because its ‘points system’ is viewed as a model of skilled immigration policy. Our estimates suggest that the impact of increasing the university-educated immigrant share on patenting rates is modest at best and unambiguously smaller than the impact of skilled immigrants in the USA. We find larger effects of Canadian science, engineering, technology or mathematics (STEM)-educated immigrants employed in STEM jobs, but this impact is limited because only one-third of Canadian STEM-educated immigrants are employed in STEM jobs, compared with two-fifths of native-born Canadians and one-half of US immigrants. Our findings suggest that for most countries, skilled immigration is unlikely to be a panacea for sluggish innovation and that the US experience may be exceptional.

The Pransky interview: Russ Angold, Co-Founder and President of Ekso™ Labs

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Pransky
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Robot ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
State University ◽  
Over The Counter ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Agricultural Engineering ◽  
San Luis ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Us ◽  
The University

Purpose – This paper aims to present a “Q&A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky of Industrial Robot Journal as a method to impart the combined technological, business and personal experiences of a prominent robotic industry engineer-turned entrepreneur regarding the evolution, commercialization and challenges of bringing a technological invention to market. Design/methodology/approach – The interviewee is Russ Angold, Co-Founder and President of Ekso™ Labs. Mr Angold has a bachelor’s degree in BioResource and Agricultural Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is a California-registered Professional Mechanical Engineer and has two granted patents and another seven pending. Findings – In 2004, two weeks after Mr Angold was hired by a former colleague to work on exoskeletons (Exos) at the University of California, Berkeley, one of Mr Angold’s six brothers has an accident that leaves him as an incomplete quadriplegic. This is the catalyst that eventually leads him and the company to design and create robotic Exos for medical applications in addition to military applications. Originality/value – Russ Angold, via a personal tragedy, becomes a bionic entrepreneur who provides many of the concepts that shape the current inventions and intellectual property of Ekso Bionics, a pioneer in the field of robotic Exos. Ekso was selected as WIRED magazine’s number two “Most Significant Gadget of 2010”, was included in Time magazine’s “50 Best Innovations of 2010” and was also featured in Inc. Magazine as one of the “5 Big Ideas for the Next 15 Years”. Ekso is listed on the US over-the-counter QB securities.

Efficient degradation of MtBE and other gasoline-originated compounds by means of a biological reactor of novel conception: two case studies in Italy and the USA

2010 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 807-812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea G. Capodaglio ◽  
Makram Suidan ◽  
Albert D. Venosa ◽  
Arianna Callegari
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Chemical Oxidation ◽  
Ex Situ ◽  
Carbon Adsorption ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Us Epa ◽  
The University ◽  
Filtration Medium

The presence of MtBE in groundwaters, due to its past use as an oxygenate additive to “green” gasoline, poses potential threats to human health as a possible carcinogen. As its chemical properties render it very mobile and poorly treatable by means of bioremediation, chemical oxidation, stripping, or carbon adsorption, a new, ex-situ treatment process was recently developed by the US EPA and the University of Cincinnati. The objective of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of this pump-and-treat technology in actual contaminated groundwater plumes in the field in two different conditions. The technology based on the combination of aerobic degradation and a special filtration medium is simple to operate, easily meets the challenge of producing a highly polished effluent in a cost-effective fashion, compared to other processes.

Implementation of a Laboratory for the Study of Robot Manipulators

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julio C. Correa ◽  
Juan A. Rami´rez ◽  
Elkin A. Taborda ◽  
Jorge A. Cock ◽  
Manuel A. Go´mez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parallel Manipulator ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Inverted Pendulum ◽  
Robot Manipulators ◽  
Industrial Robot ◽  
The Other ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
The University

This paper presents the process followed in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellin, Colombia to implement a laboratory for the study of robot manipulators. The lab includes the following components: an industrial serial manipulator and the software developed for its integration to a graduate course, a parallel manipulator, a Cartesian robot, an inverted pendulum and a small serial manipulator. Except for the industrial robot, all the other devices were manufactured at the University. For all prototypes, specific software to control them has been developed.

scholarly journals MIRTALA PYLYPENKO’S COLLECTION IN THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF OSTROH ACADEMY

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 232-239
Author(s):  
Anastasia Kheleniuk
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Art Collections ◽  
Art Collection ◽  
The Us ◽  
National University ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of ◽  
Combined Images ◽  
University Museum ◽  
The University

Special attention in this article is paid to the analysis of art collection of the Ukrainian artist from abroad Mirtala Pylypenko at the Museum of Ostroh Academy. In 1997 the Museum of history of the Ostroh Academy was founded. A great contribution to its development process was made by Ukrainians from abroad. They supported the museum, sent interesting exhibits, and joined in museum projects. Nowadays the museum has valuable art collections, among which sculptures of the well-known Ukrainian artist Mirtala Pylypenko. Mirtala Pylypenko was born in Ukraine. During World War II she emigrated, and since 1947 she has been living and working in the USA. She graduated from the Boston Museum’s Art School and Tufts University in Boston. Mirtala’s sculptures are not just artworks, but a profound philosophical and original vision of the world. She showed her talent not only in sculpture and art photography, but also in poetry – her poetic collections “Verses”, “Rainbow Bridge”, “Road to Oneself” have been published in various languages. Mirtala received acclaim in the US and Europe in the 1970s – 1980s. Since the early 1990s her works have been known in Ukraine, where the artist held a series of solo exhibits and presentations.  Mirtala presented one collection of her works to the National University of Ostroh Academy. Now it is one of the most valuable collections in the university museum. As a sculptor with a long exhibiting career, Mirtala has combined images of her sculptures with her poems, creating a single whole, which is greater than its parts. Mirtala’s collection of sculptures is monumental, philosophic and gracious. However, at the same time, it is sunny and brings back the life-asserting symbols of eternal space and time. The artist has spent most of her life across the ocean (in the USA), but her soul remains tied to Ukraine. Mirtala Pylypenko is an extraordinary figure in the Ukrainian art. And now, many generations of university students have an opportunity to get acquainted with her unique talent. It is important that sooner or later, Ukraine reveals its artists. Therefore, the museum tries to return and represent the Ukrainian diaspora art and history in museum collections in order to create a single Ukrainian cultural space.

Measurement Invariance of a Universal Behavioral Screener Across Samples From the USA and Germany

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gino Casale ◽  
Robert J. Volpe ◽  
Brian Daniels ◽  
Thomas Hennemann ◽  
Amy M. Briesch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Measurement Invariance ◽  
Student Behavior ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cross Cultural Comparison ◽  
School Based ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Universal Screener ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa

Abstract. The current study examines the item and scalar equivalence of an abbreviated school-based universal screener that was cross-culturally translated and adapted from English into German. The instrument was designed to assess student behavior problems that impact classroom learning. Participants were 1,346 K-6 grade students from the US (n = 390, Mage = 9.23, 38.5% female) and Germany (n = 956, Mage = 8.04, 40.1% female). Measurement invariance was tested by multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) across students from the US and Germany. Results support full scalar invariance between students from the US and Germany (df = 266, χ2 = 790.141, Δχ2 = 6.9, p < .001, CFI = 0.976, ΔCFI = 0.000, RMSEA = 0.052, ΔRMSEA = −0.003) indicating that the factor structure, the factor loadings, and the item thresholds are comparable across samples. This finding implies that a full cross-cultural comparison including latent factor means and structural coefficients between the US and the German version of the abbreviated screener is possible. Therefore, the tool can be used in German schools as well as for cross-cultural research purposes between the US and Germany.

Sanctions of the USA and the Policy of Bank of Russia:double Blow to the National Economy

2014 ◽  
pp. 13-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Glazyev
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Economic Sanctions ◽  
Capital Flight ◽  
Practical Advice ◽  
The Us ◽  
Monetary Authorities ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Simultaneous Adoption ◽  
The Eu

This article examines fundamental questions of monetary policy in the context of challenges to the national security of Russia in connection with the imposition of economic sanctions by the US and the EU. It is proved that the policy of the Russian monetary authorities, particularly the Central Bank, artificially limiting the money supply in the domestic market and pandering to the export of capital, compounds the effects of economic sanctions and plunges the economy into depression. The article presents practical advice on the transition from external to domestic sources of long-term credit with the simultaneous adoption of measures to prevent capital flight.

Possibility of Using in Russia the Experience of LED Lighting Application at the USA Airfields

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-77
Author(s):  
Vladimir V. Vorozhikhin ◽  
Eugenia L. Moreva ◽  
Vladimir G. Starovoytov ◽  
Igor G. Tyutyunnik
Keyword(s):  
Air Transportation ◽  
Improve Quality ◽  
Led Lighting ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Quality And Reliability ◽  
Lighting Application

The purpose of this paper is an investigation of LEDs illumination experience at US-based aerodromes with an assessment of its feasibility and its necessity in Russia. The following methods were used: the analysis of aerodrome lighting requirements; the review and the analysis of development features in aerodrome LEDs illumination; the experience analysis of LEDs illumination of US-based aerodromes; the deductive analysis and the assessment synthesis of feasibility and necessity of US experience in LEDs illumination at Russian-based aerodromes. The following results were achieved: – The analysis of issues and opportunities was conducted for development of LEDs illumination at US-based aerodromes and of American experts’ recommendations for its use; – The cases were taken for use and assessment of development in LEDs illumination at US-based aerodromes; – The review and the analysis were conducted in relation to a developing market of LEDs illumination at Russian-based aerodromes. The main conclusion is that the US experience will improve quality and reliability of service provided in air transportation, comfort, and safety of Russian flights, as well as competitiveness of Russian- based airports and airlines (indirectly).

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