332 results about "Motor movement" patented technology

An exercise and performance evaluation apparatus including a revolving belt or other engagement surface on which a subject can perform forward, backward, or sideways bipedal locomotion or other exercise movement, a means for securing the position of the subject relative to the frame of the apparatus, a means for measuring the force applied by the subject to the engagement surface, and a means for monitoring and/or controlling the velocity of the engagement surface. Securing the subject relative to the frame of the apparatus facilitates monitoring velocity as a function of time. Processing of velocity and force as a function of time allows for recording and analysis of data such as the maximal exertion force-velocity curve. Force-velocity-duration data for exertions is analyzed in terms of an intensity function. The apparatus allows exertions to be performed throughout, and outside, the first quadrant of a force-velocity-duration space.

Systems and methods for creating personalized exercise programs are disclosed. An image capture device and a computer device are used to capture images of a user while the user performs athletic movements. The images may then be evaluated to create a human movement screen score. The human movement screen score, goal and time commitment information may then be used to create a personalized exercise program tailored to the specific user.

A system and method that facilitates stimulating neural pathways, e.g., muscles and/or associated nerves, of a patient's body for the purpose of therapeutic medical treatment by rehabilitating weakened muscles and using neuroplasticity to retrain sequential muscle movements and/or to provide the ability to directly deliver functional motor movements. Use of the present invention is of particular value for treating a patient following a stroke. More particularly, such systems are characterized by a plurality of discrete devices, preferably battery powered but may alternatively include RF-powered devices as well or in combination, configured for implanting within a patient's body via injection, each device being configured to affect a parameter, e.g., via nerve and/or muscle stimulation and/or to sense a body parameter, e.g., temperature, O₂ content, physical position, electrical potential, etc., that operate under control of a system controller that coordinates the sequential stimulation via wireless commands to the implanted devices.

The present invention discloses a surgical maneuvering system, in which movement of a moving element is used to control a surgical device such as a surgical tool or an endoscope. The moving element can be a tool or a portion of an operator's body. The relationship between the moving element and the surgical device can be any of: motion of a moving element controlling motion of a surgical device, motion of a moving element controlling an action of a surgical device, a command of a moving element controlling motion of a surgical device, or a command of a moving element controlling an action of the device. Commands are typically arbitrary movements such as shaking a tool. Actions are changes in a surgical device that do not change its overall position, such as closing a grasper.

A motion tracking system enables faithful capture of subtle facial and eye motion using a surface electromyography (EMG) detection method to detect muscle movements and an electrooculogram (EOG) detection method to detect eye movements. Signals corresponding to the detected muscle and eye movements are used to control an animated character to exhibit the same movements performed by a performer. An embodiment of the motion tracking animation system comprises a plurality of pairs of EMG electrodes adapted to be affixed to a skin surface of a performer at plural locations corresponding to respective muscles, and a processor operatively coupled to the plurality of pairs of EMG electrodes. The processor includes programming instructions to perform the functions of acquiring EMG data from the plurality of pairs of EMG electrodes. The EMG data comprises electrical signals corresponding to muscle movements of the performer during a performance. The programming instructions further include processing the EMG data to provide a digital model of the muscle movements, and mapping the digital model onto an animated character. In another embodiment of the invention, a plurality of pairs of EOG electrodes are adapted to be affixed to the skin surface of the performer at locations adjacent to the performer's eyes. The processor is operatively coupled to the plurality of pairs of EOG electrodes and further includes programming instructions to perform the functions of acquiring EOG data from the plurality of pairs of EOG electrodes. The EOG data comprises electrical signals corresponding to eye movements of the performer during a performance. The programming instructions further provide processing of the EOG data and mapping of the processed EOG data onto the animated character. As a result, the animated character will exhibit the same muscle and eye movements as the performer.

Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for tracking a moving sports object. In one example, a method of tracking a moving sports object includes calibrating a perspective of an image of a camera to a perspective of a Doppler radar for simultaneous tracking of the moving sports object, and tracking the moving sports object simultaneously with the camera and Doppler radar. The method may further comprise removing offsets or minimizing differences between simultaneous camera measurements and Doppler radar measurements of the moving sports object. The method may also include combining a camera measurement of an angular position of the moving sports object with a simultaneous Doppler measurement of a radial distance, speed or other measurement of the moving sports object.

A display device having a puck, a display screen, and a controller is disclosed. The puck moves in a puck field of motion on a surface, the field of motion being divided into a pointing region and a function region. The controller determines a position of the puck within the field of motion. The display screen has first and second display modes, the display screen displaying a two-dimensional scene in the first display mode and a sub-scene of the two-dimensional scene in the second display mode. A cursor that moves within the sub-scene in a manner controlled by the puck position in the pointing region is displayed in the second mode. The controller causes the display scene to change between modes when the puck moves between regions. The sub-scene position moves in response to the position of the puck in the function region in the first display mode.

An exercise device can include a pair of pedal members, each of which can be rotatably connected on at least one end to a planet gear that is rotatable about a sun gear on each side of the device. The pedal members and the planet gears can be rotated to provide an elliptical exercise motion. The device can include a mechanism for simultaneously rotating each of the sun gears together to change the orientation of the elliptical exercise motion relative to a user. The orientation of an elliptical exercise motion can be changed dynamically from one orientation to another, for example, from horizontal to uphill or downhill, during a particular workout period. The exercise device can change the orientation of an elliptical exercise motion while maintaining a user's ankles at a substantially constant angle during the exercise cycle.

A method and system for limiting the motion of items, such as camera optics, are disclosed. A motion limiting member can be used to limit the motion of the item using a surface thereof that abuts a structure of the item. Limits on the motion can be defined by a positioning member that is attached to the motion limiting member and that abuts a structure that is fixed with respect to the desired range of motion of the item whose motion is being limited. This abutment facilitates the precise definition of the limit on the motion of the item.

The invention provides a robot-assisted system and method for controlling a flexible needle to puncture soft tissues in real time, belonging to the technical field of medical equipment for minimally invasion surgeries (MIS). The system comprises a flexible needle puncture device, a driving device, a mechanical sensor, a data acquisition card and a computer, wherein the computer comprises stepping motor movement control software, force signal processing software and a flexible needle control algorithm. The method is used for realizing needle puncture movement through the following steps: regarding puncture process as a quasi-static process and any needle section as a cantilever, wherein each needle section is described by vector and is regarded as a cantilever; computing the deflection and cross section rotating angle of the needle section according to the theory of cantilever; and computing the positions of the needle body and the needle point in real time by iteration. According to the invention, real-time adjustment of the position of the needle body in the process of puncture is realized, thus effectively keeping away from the barriers in the process of puncture and precisely hitting the target; and further the degree of fatigue of the doctors is reduced, pains of the patients are alleviated, and the surgery risks are reduced.

A motorised pool-cleaning device (1) includes: a suction element (30); a rotary element (4) for moving the device, which define first (2) and second (3) bearing axles; a support (18) consisting of (i) a first central part (24) and (ii) first (25) and second (26) side covers which are connected to either side of the first central part, such as to form the chassis of the motorised device, and which support the rotary movement element (4); and a drive element (16, 17) for rotating the rotary movement element (4), which are disposed on the first and second side covers in a cantilevered manner.

A training device for a gliding sport athlete trains the athlete to have the proper knee bend for gliding sports such as ice skating, inline skating, skiing, etc. The device includes a belt and a pair of foot attachments adapted to be fastened to a front portion of the respective feet or footwear of the athlete. One end of each pair of cords is connected to the belt at a position between the front portion and a respective side portion, and another end connected to one of the foot attachments. Each of the cords has an unstretched length less than a length between the athlete's waist and feet, to apply a force to urge the athlete's knee into a bent position.

The invention discloses a coarse tuning and fine tuning combined infrared image automatic focusing method which is characterized by controlling a motor to operate positively and negatively according to an automatic focusing command; controlling the motor to move to the negative direction with a relatively-large step length from the extreme position; in the moving process, calculating definition evaluation function value in real time; and when the function value reaches maximum value, controlling the motor to move to the negative direction again with a relatively-small step length and calculating definition evaluation function value in real time, and the maximum value place is the clearest imaging place. According to the method, combination of coarse tuning and fine tuning is realized through different motor movement step lengths, and automatic focusing calculation is carried out through two image definition evaluation functions, thereby guaranteeing an infrared imaging system to enable the focal length to be adjusted to the clearest imaging place quickly and realizing the optimum focusing effect; and the method is less in computation burden, high in real-time performance, beneficial to engineering application, and capable of meeting the definition requirement of the infrared imaging system.

The invention provides a device and method for providing charging docking for an electric car based on monocular vision. The device comprises an image collection system, an illumination system, a docking connecting system, a computer-based image processing and motor movement control system and a drive device. The illumination system provides an illumination light source for the image collection system to enable the image collection system to obtain clear imaging. The docking connecting system is driven by a motor to move in the transverse direction and the longitudinal direction. The computer-based image processing and motor movement control system processes images collected by the image collection system and carries out movement control over the motor based on data generated by image processing, and therefore the docking connecting system is controlled to move to the corresponding position. The drive device drives the device to move or rotate. The device can provide automatic charging docking for the electric car conveniently, fast and easily, and is simple in mechanical structure, and the docking method is high in reliability.

An ear canal pressurization device optimized for aural acoustic immittance testing is disclosed. The preferred embodiment of the device is comprised of a rigid mounting framework which holds in position, axially aligned, a first flexible chamber assembly, a centrally disposed forcer assembly, and a second flexible chamber assembly. The forcer assembly comprises a ferromagnetic bobbin and coil that provides electromotive force for a moving magnet linear motor. The motor is comprised of a rigid chamber link, which passes through the hollow core of the bobbin, with a ferromagnetic keeper washer and axially aligned rare earth ring magnet at either end, with like magnetic poles facing each other. The motor is elastically suspended between the first and second flexible chambers. Current flow through the coil of the forcer assembly provides motive force for the motor via attraction or repulsion of the motor magnets and movement of the motor increases the volume of the first flexible chamber while decreasing the volume of the second flexible chamber, or vice versa. The internal volume of the first flexible chamber is coupled via an air line to an ear canal and through a controlled valve to a small vent, and the internal volume of the second flexible chamber is vented to ambient air pressure. Changes in volume of the first flexible chamber, due to motor movement, produce changes in ear canal pressure re Boyle's law. The vent may be opened to allow ear canal pressure to gently equalize to ambient air pressure or to generate ear canal pressure sweeps free of pressure baseline offset. The vent may be closed to set a static ear canal pressure or to generate ear canal pressure sweeps with an incidental baseline offset. The vent may be controlled to generate ear canal pressure sweeps with an intended baseline offset. The device produces ear canal pressure proportional to drive voltage, so any desired pressure versus time function can be generated by applying a coil driving voltage with the appropriate amplitude versus time function. The device operates quietly to avoid interference with aural acoustic immittance measurement, and should have a long and maintenance free life span.

A programmable range of motion system has a frame, a range of motion device, a controller, a computer and sensors. The frame has a seat to support a rehab patient. The range of motion device is attached to the frame. The actuator, servo or alternate mechanism selectively rotates the range of motion device through a range of motion for a rehab patient's limb. The controller controls the actuator, servo or alternate mechanism. The computer is connected electronically to the controller. The computer has a software, program or application including a plurality of programmable range of motion movements for exercising the limb. The sensor detects movements of the actuator, servo or alternate mechanism and records data back to the computer. The term actuator as used hereafter includes servo or alternate articulating mechanism.

The invention relates to a prosthetic hand control method based on an MYO armlet. An electromyographic signal of arm muscles is acquired in real time through the MYO armlet and read, the characteristic value of the electromyographic signal is extracted, hand motion mode is recognized online by means of the characteristic value and a well trained neural network model, and the motion mode is converted into a corresponding motor movement instruction which drives a prosthetic hand to make a corresponding motion; a method for training the neural network model comprises the steps of executing the hand motion, acquiring the electromyographic signal of arm muscles through the MYO armlet, reading the electromyographic signal, extracting the characteristic value of the electromyographic signal, and training the hand motion neural network model according to a sample of the characteristic value. Compared with the prior art, the method has the advantages of being convenient to use, low in cost, high in cost performance, wide in application range and the like.

A production type surface finishing apparatus for finishing the surfaces of work-pieces such as cabinet doors and the like which include a plurality of relatively large, very lightweight finishing platens that are simultaneously movable in both a reciprocal and an orbital-like motion. The platen is moved in a reciprocal motion by a first motion-imparting mechanism and is simultaneously moved in a high-frequency, orbit-like motion by a second motion-imparting mechanism that includes shafts which are rotated at relatively high rates of speed. The shafts, and the motors which drive them, are mounted on platforms which are reciprocally movable relative to the main frame of the device. Connected to the rotating shafts by specially designed elastomeric sleeve-like members are specially configured, ring-like member which are provided with a plurality of circumferentially spaced apertures along one edge of the ring. The rings are, in turn, connected to the platen assemblies by novel shaft and bearing assemblies. The platens are also connected to the reciprocating platforms of the apparatus by novel isolated sleeves.

The invention relates to a vibration response simulation analyzing method for a rolling bearing with single-point failures. On the basis of a Hertz contact theory, related knowledge about kinematics and kinetics are utilized to establish a five-degree-of-freedom nonlinear vibration mode of a rolling bearing and kinetic differential equations of the rolling bearing while influencing factors like slipping of rolling balls, oil slick rigidity and the like are taken into consideration, according to that the rolling balls change due to contact deformation is caused when the rolling balls roll through partial failures, a partial failure model of the rolling bearing is introduced into the kinetic differential equations of the rolling bearing, and the single-point failures of the rolling bearing are classified according to length-width ratios of the failures and size ratios between the failures and the rolling balls so as to establish different failure shape functions; the differential equations are solved by an ode solver in MATLAB (matrix laboratory) software, and vibration responses of the rolling bearing are simulated when an inner ring, an outer ring and the rolling balls of the rolling bearing are suffered from the single-point failures. By the aid of the vibration response simulation analyzing method, vibration responses of the bearings with failures in different sizes can be simulated. Compared with traditional methods for acquiring vibration responses of failed bearings, the vibration response simulation analyzing method has the advantages that an experimental period is short and experimental cost is saved. The computation for the vibration responses for the failed rolling bearings can lay the foundation of late failure diagnosis for the rolling bearings.

The invention belongs to the field related to robot controllers, and particularly relates to a driving-and-control-integrated control system and a control method for a joint-type mechanical arm. According to the driving-and-control-integrated control system, main control of a robot control system and motor movement control are finished by utilizing one integrated ARM-DSP chip; external interface communication, power control and electric current loop design are realized by utilizing two FPGA chips; and at most 7 paths of servo motors are subjected to time-sharing control by utilizing one DSP chip. The driving-and-control-integrated control system has the advantages that communication data interaction between the ARM and DSP chips adopts a internal storage access mode, so that data interaction speed is the highest; a no-operation system scheme and a hardware interrupting real-time scheme are adopted, so that the real-time property of the system is improved to the greatest extent; a Cartesian space kinematics calculation result is secondarily optimized in a joint space, so that movement smoothness of the motors is ensured; and a software and hardware parallel processing mechanism is adopted, and an uninterrupted data "interaction-use-refilling" process is designed, so that system data interaction and use do not interfere with each other.

A resonance engine is disclosed comprising: a driver plate (12), to which is coupled at least one oscillatory transducer (14); a drive signal generator connected to the oscillatory transducer for excitation thereof; a first spring-mass resonator, having a first natural resonant frequency, with a proximal end attached to the driver plate (12) and a free distal end; and a reaction means attached to the driver plate substantially opposite to the first spring-mass resonator. When the oscillatory transducer (14) is excited by a drive signal from the generator having a component at or close to said natural resonant frequency, the first spring-mass resonator oscillates at resonance, substantially in anti-phase to the driver plate (12).

Small vibrational strains in the oscillatory transducer (14) are converted to large strains of controllable kinematic movements.

The resonance engine has particular application for nano air vehicles (10-10f), wherein at least one spring-mass resonator is fitted with a wing (RD, LD) capable of producing thrust by flapping in an insect like kinematic manner suitable for flight. Where additional spring-mass resonators are added to the engine, each may be fitted with a wing. Each different spring-mass resonator may be tuned to have a different natural resonant frequency (when measured in isolation), whereby flight may be controlled by adjusting the drive signal; at particular drive frequencies, certain of the resonators may resonate in preference to others, thereby increasing lift from the associated wings, and controlling flight. The wings may face in opposite directions in order to produce rotational flight.

Further closely tuned spring-mass resonators that are tuned on a substantially different frequency band to the wing resonators can be added as legs for independently controllable terrestrial or aerial locomotion.