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A Cost-Effective, High-Performance and Bioinspired Pulse Sensor for Quantitative Assessment of Arterial Stiffness
(2018)
In clinical medicine, a wave of blood flow produced by the heartbeat is propagated by the elastic and muscular fibers of the arteries as the wave passes. These waves of pressure can be detected as pulses in arteries close ...
Interactive Fire Prevention System
(2016)
The numbers of structural fires are not significantly decreasing over the last decades. 49%
of residential fires are caused by cooking accidents having several casualties and costs from
$800 to 35,000 to repair. The proposed ...
EverHot Smart Beearage Container by EverHot Industries of Sierra Nevada
(2013)
The EverHot beverage container is being developed in order to improve the maximum amount
oftime that a hot beverage is within a desirable temperature range. Products exist that help to
cool the beverage rapidly, and yet ...
Development of an Automated Body Camera Solution
(2015)
Due to recent events in the United States such as the shooting of Michael Brown by
Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, many law enforcement officers have come
under increased public scrutiny. This is due to the ...
Fingertip Skin Bioimpedance Identification and Tactile Correlation: Experimental Studies towards a Smart Electro-Braille System
(2012)
With the advances of the last twenty years, information has become readily available to most Americans. Databases of scholarly papers and news articles are now available at the touch of a button. For blind and visually ...
Passive Functional Mapping of Brain Language Area and Measuring Depth of Anesthesia Using Electrocoricography
(2016)
Every year, thousands of patients undergo craniotomy as an indispensable operation for their treatment procedure. These individuals are consisted, and not limited to those who suffer from brain lesions, tumors or intractable ...
RIGID ELEMENTS BASED SHAPE-MORPHING MECHANISMS (RESM) ENABLED BIOINSPIRED AND SOFT MEDICAL MECHATRONICS
(2018)
Soft mechatronics is generally made of soft materials or soft mechanisms with a continuously deformable structure. Compared to the rigid mechatronics, soft mechatronics can adapt to intimate human contact due to its ...
Modeling, Simulation and Validation of a Bio-Inspired and Self-Powered Miniature Pressure Sensing System for Monitoring Cerebral Intra Aneurysmal Pressure
(2017)
Intracranial aneurysm rupture is one of the main cause for the intracranial bleeding. A brain aneurysm is an abnormal focal bulging of the arteries in the brain. As an aneurysm grows, its wall becomes thinner and weaker, ...
Autonomous Salting Robot: A Deicing Revolution
(2017)
The Autonomous Salting Robot (ASR) by Saltonomous Industries addresses two issues threatening individuals living in icy conditions: injury due to slipping and falling while salting walkways and avoidance of salting due to ...
Blu Security BluLock Smart Lock
(2017)
Blu Security has developed a smart lock for home doors called the BluLock which can connect to a user's smart phone via Bluetooth. It features three separate modes which allow for easy use of the lock from a mobile device ...