International Journal of Biomechatronics and Biomedical Robotics (IJBBR)

International Journal of Biomechatronics and Biomedical Robotics

2013 Vol.2 No.2/3/4

Special Issue on Recent Applications of Biomechatronics and Machine Vision

Guest Editors: Professor Peter Xu, Professor Tom Moir, Professor Johan Potgieter and Dr. Fakhrul Alam

Editorial

Pages Title and author(s)
67-74Modelling of pneumatic muscle actuator and antagonistic joint using linearised parameters
Liming Sui; Shengquan Xie
DOI: 10.1504/IJBBR.2013.058735
75-80Steering coordination control of front wheels for a four in-wheel-motor drive electric vehicle
Xiaochun Zhu; Hao Qiu; Zhurong Dong; Ziming Tom Qi; Yachen Zhang
DOI: 10.1504/IJBBR.2013.058722
81-86A novel control method for electric power steering system based on dead-zone inverse transforming compensation in a four-in-wheel-motor drive electric vehicle
Songfeng Liang; Ziming Tom Qi; Zhurong Dong; Hao Qiu; Songhua Hu
DOI: 10.1504/IJBBR.2013.058720
87-92A road surface identification method for a four in-wheel-motor drive electric vehicle
Zhijun Deng; Ziming Tom Qi; Zhurong Dong; Ping He; Chengwei Han; Shaoyun Ren
DOI: 10.1504/IJBBR.2013.058721
93-101Efficiency-based optimisation of a 2-DOF robotic fish model
Sayyed Farideddin Masoomi; Stefanie Gutschmidt; XiaoQi Chen; Mathieu Sellier
DOI: 10.1504/IJBBR.2013.058736
102-110Plug-and-play design and distributed logic control of medical devices using IEC 61499 function blocks
Majid Sorouri; Valeriy Vyatkin; Shengquan Xie; Zoran Salcic
DOI: 10.1504/IJBBR.2013.058738
111-117Design of a peristaltic crawling robot using 3-D link mechanisms
Norihiko Saga; Satoshi Tesen; Hiroki Dobashi; Jun-ya Nagase
DOI: 10.1504/IJBBR.2013.058739
118-123Effects of knee alignment on human gait based on wireless sensors
Norihiko Saga; Saeko Irie; Yasutaka Nakanishi; Hiroki Dobashi; Akitoshi Sogabe
DOI: 10.1504/IJBBR.2013.058740
124-134Parameterisation analysis for a four in-wheel-motors drive and four wheels independent steering electric vehicle based on multi-body inverse kinematics
Shaoyun Ren; Zhurong Dong; Hao Qiu; Zhanyu Li; Ziming Tom Qi
DOI: 10.1504/IJBBR.2013.058734
135-140Fibre optic force sensor for flexible bevel tip needles in minimally invasive surgeries
Jas Singh; Johan Potgieter; Weiliang Xu
DOI: 10.1504/IJBBR.2013.058742
141-149Simulation of a 6-PUS jaw robot and a new mechanism inspired by masticatory system
Ming Cong; Haiying Wen; Weiliang Xu
DOI: 10.1504/IJBBR.2013.058741
150-162The structural synthesis of planar 10-link, 3-DOF simple and multiple joint kinematic chains
Jinkui Chu; Yanhuo Zou; Pengfei He
DOI: 10.1504/IJBBR.2013.058718
163-171Biologically-inspired swallowing robot for investigation of texture modified foods
Steven Dirven; Weiliang Xu; Leo K. Cheng; Jacqueline Allen; John Bronlund
DOI: 10.1504/IJBBR.2013.058719
172-183Lyapunov function-based non-linear control for two-wheeled mobile robots
Zareena Kausar; Karl Stol; Nitish Patel
DOI: 10.1504/IJBBR.2013.058724
184-194Review of EMG-based neuromuscular interfaces for rehabilitation: elbow joint as an example
Ran Tao; Shane Xie; Yanxin Zhang; James W.L. Pau
DOI: 10.1504/IJBBR.2013.058737
195-208Feature-channel subset selection for optimising myoelectric human-machine interface design
Mohammadreza Asghari Oskoei; Huosheng Hu; John Q. Gan
DOI: 10.1504/IJBBR.2013.058708