Kinematically Redundant Robotics

Terry Knight — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:31:00 GMT

The majority of robotics used in industry are in very structured environments. To program and teach a robot a specific task in industry, like spray painting an area, takes a significant amount of time. Dr. Anthony Maciejewski and his team of Randy Hoover and Shantell Hinton at Colorado State University are working on a way to not only automate the process but also to reduce configurations that create kinematic singularities which reduce motion by dropping off a degree of freedom of the robotic movement.

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Electrical Impedance Tomography

Terry Knight — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:44:00 GMT

Dr. Boris Rubinsky, Arnold and Barbara Silverman Distinguished Professor, Bioengineering; Professor, Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley introduces us to his revolutionary technology of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT). EIT develops an image of the electrical impedance of the body from electrical measurements around the body by placing electrodes around organs and injecting current at certain locations while measuring potential at others. It is a noninvasive procedure that uses inexpensive hardware: the medical imaging system will use cell phone technology to enable doctors around the world.

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