Danger for Human Body Using New Model Medical Equipment : Actual Example of Medical Equipment which may Cause Careless Accidents

This paper presents the mechanical modifications and simulation of a bipedal humanoid system actuated with linear springs to produce a standing equilibrium position. The original humanoid system is comprised of two leg assemblies connected by a hip bracket. Eleven pairs of springs were attached to the system in locations designed to simulate the muscles and tendons in a human body. The next evolution of the LUIGEE project is the inclusion of three servo motors per leg and a series of elastomeric springs. Although servo motors have been introduced, it is desired to maintain the passive, static aspect of the previous prototype. This paper reports on part modifications to accommodate servo motors and the introduction of polymeric springs that guarantee static stability. ABS plastic and photopolymer resin was used to produce the new model. Due to the size of the motors, some parts of the original robot were redesigned. The new design iteration was stimulated using SimWise 4D®, where the hysteretic effect of rubber was modelled with an equivalent viscous damping.

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Medical equipment for correcting impaired homeostasis of the human body

Biomedical Engineering ◽

10.1007/bf02368971 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

pp. 21-23

Author(s):

E. A. Selezov ◽

V. V. Skobelev

Keyword(s):

Human Body ◽

Medical Equipment

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Posture Estimation of a Human Body from Thermal Images of 2D Appearance Models of 3D Ellipsoidal Model

Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics ◽

10.20965/jaciii.2009.p0172 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 172-177 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Mitsuhiro Hayase ◽

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Susumu Shimada ◽

Keyword(s):

Human Body ◽

Three Dimensional ◽

Two Dimensional ◽

Recognition Method ◽

Thermal Images ◽

New Model ◽

Model Based ◽

Ellipsoidal Model ◽

Posture Estimation ◽

Appearance Models

We propose a new model-based recognition method that involves the use of three-dimensional (3D) ellipsoidal models in various sizes and proportions as well as their two-dimensional (2D) appearance models. Most model-based vision is intended to recognize specified objects, and the model is specific to the object. However, our method can recognize various proportions of objects and was applied in posture estimation of the human body from thermal images.

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Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism

10.1017/9781009004510 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Stephanie O'Rourke

Keyword(s):

Visual Culture ◽

Human Body ◽

Scientific Knowledge ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

The Body ◽

New Model ◽

Archival Material ◽

The World ◽

Late Eighteenth ◽

History Of

Can we really trust the things our bodies tell us about the world? This work reveals how deeply intertwined cultural practices of art and science questioned the authority of the human body in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Focusing on Henry Fuseli, Anne-Louis Girodet and Philippe de Loutherbourg, it argues that romantic artworks participated in a widespread crisis concerning the body as a source of reliable scientific knowledge. Rarely discussed sources and new archival material illuminate how artists drew upon contemporary sciences and inverted them, undermining their founding empiricist principles. The result is an alternative history of romantic visual culture that is deeply embroiled in controversies around electricity, mesmerism, physiognomy and other popular sciences. This volume reorients conventional accounts of romanticism and some of its most important artworks, while also putting forward a new model for the kinds of questions that we can ask about them.

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Applying Pulse Width Modulation in Body Coupled Communication

Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering ◽

10.1155/2015/378054 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2015 ◽

pp. 1-6 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios ◽

Pelagia Alexandridou ◽

Christos Koukourlis

Keyword(s):

Human Body ◽

Pulse Width ◽

Medical Equipment ◽

Pulse Width Modulation ◽

The Body ◽

Human Hand ◽

Digital Information

We study the application of Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) technique in Body Coupled Communication. The term Body Coupled Communication is used in order to specify that the human body or a part of it, such as an arm, is used as a path that transfers digital information. The digital information is either generated due to coupling of the body, for example, in medical equipment as a result of a measurement, or generated by external circuitry attached somewhere onto the body and is transferred to a terminal by touching it. In this paper, the latter case will be described, where, for illustration purposes, the touch of the human hand on a doorknob triggers the unlocking mechanism.

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A New Model and its Implications for the Origin of Writing: The La Marche Antler Revisited

Cambridge Archaeological Journal ◽

10.1017/s095977430001502x ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 163-206 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

Francesco d'Errico

Keyword(s):

Spatial Distribution ◽

Theoretical Model ◽

Present Article ◽

Early Development ◽

Human Body ◽

Technical Analysis ◽

Memory System ◽

Modern Humans ◽

New Model ◽

Artificial Memory

Current models for the origin of writing do not pay sufficient attention to the origin and early development of means adopted by modern humans to record, transmit and process information outside the human body. The present article attempts to fill this gap by elaborating a theoretical model able to classify and describe the variability of these systems. The model is applied to the study of the engraved antler from La Marche, one of the better-known Palaeolithic objects to have been interpreted as an early system of notation. Technical analysis of the marks, through application of a range of experimental criteria, suggests that the sets of marks carved on this object should be interpreted as an artificial memory system with a complex code based on the morphology and the spatial distribution of the engraved marks. These results have important implications for current theories on the origin of writing.

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