A5046597338- Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications
- Oil and Gas Production Techniques
- Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics
- Fuzzy Logic and Control Systems
- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Industrial Automation and Control Systems
- Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems
- Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems
- Fault Detection and Control Systems
- Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies
- Soft Robotics and Applications
- Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
- Electrostatic Discharge in Electronics
- Experimental Learning in Engineering
University of California, Riverside
2021-2024
Pneumatically-actuated soft robots have advantages over traditional rigid in many applications. In particular, their flexible bodies and gentle air-powered movements make them more suitable for use around humans other objects that could be injured or damaged by robots. However, existing systems controlling currently require dedicated electromechanical hardware (usually solenoid valves) to maintain the actuation state (expanded contracted) of each independent actuator. When combined with...
Pneumatic control systems are common in manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, robotics, and many other fields. Undetected failures pneumatic can have serious consequences. In this work, we present an air-powered error detector that identify systems. This device contains a logic circuit of 21 microfluidic valves calculates the parity bit corresponding to several bits. If problem such as air leak or blockage occurs, then calculated expected bits will not match, outputs signal alert user...
Many biomedical devices are powered and controlled by electrical components. These electronics add to the cost of a device (possibly making too expensive for use in resource-limited or point-of-care settings) can also render unsuitable some environments (for example, high-humidity areas like incubators where condensation could cause short circuits, ovens electronic components may overheat, explosive flammable electric sparks serious accidents). In this work, we show that pneumatic logic be...
Pneumatic systems are common in manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, robotics, and many other fields. Failures these can have very serious consequences, particularly if they go undetected. In this work, we present an air-powered error detector device that detect respond to failures pneumatically actuated systems. The contains 21 monolithic membrane valves act like transistors a pneumatic logic "circuit" uses vacuum represent TRUE atmospheric pressure as FALSE. Three exclusive-OR (XOR)...