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Low cost, high performance actuators for dynamic robots
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
The recent growth of the remote control airplane and drone market has created great availability of extremely cheap, yet very power and torque dense electric motors. However, these motors have for the most part been neglected ...
Antibody-modified conduits for extracorporeal selective cytokine filtration in sepsis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Sepsis kills millions of people worldwide each year and occurs when microorganisms enter the bloodstream of an infected host. The presence of microorganisms in the bloodstream triggers the body to produce many inflammatory ...
Design and testing of a flexible exoskeleton-to-shoe interface
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
A lightweight minimalist lower-limb exoskeleton has been designed that reduces the metabolic cost of walking. Currently, this exoskeleton must be permanently attached to a shoe; holes are drilled into each new shoe used, ...
Development of inexpensive hands-on mechanics laboratory exercises for the web and around the world
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Online education has rapidly expanded in recent years, but offering a true laboratory component to online curricula has been limited by the ability to replicate lab experiments at a low cost. Some online courses offer ...
Control of a pneumatically actuated joint for wearable supernumerary robotic limbs application
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Presented is work on the development of the Supernumerary Robotic Limbs project, headed by Federico Parietti in the d'Arbeloff Labs under Prof. Harry Asada. Specifically, this paper focuses on the integration of lightweight, ...
High-throughput extrusion additive manufacturing using electrically resistive preheating
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Extrusion-based additive manufacturing, commonly known as fused deposition modeling (FDM) or fused filament fabrication (FFF) is incredibly useful in industry for a variety of reasons, including rapid prototyping and the ...
Exploring methods to enable responsible alcohol consumption in social environments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
With the recent rise in alcohol related incidents and deaths in the United States we have seen new technologies and tools to try to reduce the number of these occurrences. Apps such as Uber are only a click away from being ...
Study of human motor control and task performance with circular constraints
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
This thesis aims to investigate human motor control strategies. Curved constraints offer a unique opportunity to exploit forces of contact. A circular crank experiment using the MIT MANUS robot was designed in order to ...
Casting a one-lunger Atlantic marine engine
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Fabrication of a one-lunger Atlantic marine engine for the purposes of developing a curriculum for an advanced fabricating and machining class for the Papplardo Apprentices at MIT. One-lunger marine engines greatly influenced ...
Fabrication of reinforced alginate fibers for cell based therapies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Type I Diabetes is a condition in which the pancreas does not produce enough insulin, leading to dysregulation in glucose metabolism. Most Type I diabetics take insulin injections after each meal in order to remain euglycemic. ...