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Measurement of Sub-Surface Microstructures Based on a Developed Ultrasonic Atomic Force Microscopy

Yuyang Wang, Chengjian Wu, Jinyan Tang, Mingyu Duan, Jian Chen, Bing-Feng Ju, Yuan-Liu Chen
2022 Applied Sciences  
The combination of acoustic technique for sub-surface detection and atomic force microscopy (AFM) for measurement with high resolution is a potential method for studying the subsurface structure of workpiece  ...  For this purpose, contact-resonance AFM (CR-AFM) is a typical technique.  ...  After that, the difference between the collected real-time probe contact resonance frequency and the reference frequency is used as a feedback signal, and the piezoelectric ceramic is controlled to drive  ... 
doi:10.3390/app12115460 fatcat:3ggiarc4inh23bpqtdln5a7vaa

Residue detection for real-time removal of paint from metallic surfaces

Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Xiaoqi Bao, Benjamin P. Dolgin, Neville I. Marzwell, Tribikram Kundu
2001 Advanced Nondestructive Evaluation for Structural and Biological Health Monitoring  
Issues that affect the sensory data in dynamic conditions are addressed while providing real-time real feedback for the control of the paint stripper speed of travel.  ...  To assure efficient paint stripping feedback data is required to control the travel speed by monitoring the paint thickness before and during the stripping process.  ...  Bill Ross, NREC, CMU for his helpful technical comments and suggestions.  ... 
doi:10.1117/12.434165 fatcat:ot4towjkencc3ias5hdrwxx534

Study of DNA properties under controlled conditions using AFM based nano-robotics

Guangyong Li, Ning Xi, Lianqing Liu, Jiangbo Zhang, King W. C. Lai
2007 2007 7th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE NANO)  
The recent development of Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) based nano-robotics seems to be a promising solution.  ...  The electrical properties of DNA are studied under controlled conditions.  ...  behavior models, real-time force information, and local scanning information.  ... 
doi:10.1109/nano.2007.4601356 fatcat:74ctsu7ilnghzik4jirjbsiapu

Interface Design and Control Strategies for a Robot Assisted Ultrasonic Examination System [chapter]

François Conti, Jaeheung Park, Oussama Khatib
2014 Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics  
A force controller maintains a constant contact force between the transducer and the patient's skin while the robot drives the transducer to the desired anatomical locations.  ...  The ultrasound imaging system is connected to a 3D visualization application which registers in real time the streaming 2D images generated by the transducer and displays the resulting data as 3D volumetric  ...  Sébastien Grange from Force Dimension, and Dr. Brook Jeffrey from the Stanford University Medical Center for their valuable comments and suggestions during the development of this project.  ... 
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-28572-1_7 fatcat:2zp6rwh3obctxiasmckuujvea4

Interface sensing and cutting of ultra-thin film based on UV-assisted AFM

Jialin Shi, Lianqing Liu
2015 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO)  
Furthermore, the real-time material/interface sensing is still absent when cutting on ultra-thin film.  ...  This new approach for sensing and cutting ultra-thin film is validated by our experimental results conducting on ultra-thin films with different thickness at nanoscale.  ...  Hence, it is very necessary for a real-time interface sensing and cutting method for ultra-thin film based on UV-assisted AFM.  ... 
doi:10.1109/nano.2015.7388780 fatcat:sjblubsfsndm3irjg5gcngbnj4

Integrating force, tactile and proximity sensing for a flexible robotic system through a modular design [chapter]

Urbano Nunes, A. T. Almeida, Pedro Faia, Rui Araújo
1991 Engineering Systems with Intelligence  
distance sensors and algorithms for sensor-based control.  ...  Here, we are essentially concerned with sensory integration for fine motion control, the following subjects being addressed: the architecture of the control system integrating force/torque, tactile and  ...  For the real-time path control communications we have developed a PC-AT bus board based on a microcontroller of the Intel MCSS1 family.  ... 
doi:10.1007/978-94-011-2560-4_29 fatcat:3yzth2csmbdbvphl24yzgqtauq

Effects of Vibration Amplitude on Microstructure Evolution and Mechanical Strength of Ultrasonic Spot Welded Cu/Al Joints

Jian Liu, Biao Cao, Jingwei Yang
2017 Metals  
The effects of vibration amplitude on the interface reaction and mechanical strength of the Cu/Al joints were systematically investigated in ultrasonic spot welding (USW) experiments.  ...  Metals 2017, 7, 471 2 of 12 the quality of an ultrasonic welded joint is quite sensitive to the variation of welding parameters, such as frequency, vibration amplitude, clamping force and welding energy  ...  A moderate clamping force is indispensable to generate intimate contact between the welded samples.  ... 
doi:10.3390/met7110471 fatcat:hqispc76gnc5ni2dljc4c4udty

A Review of Surface Haptics: Enabling Tactile Effects on Touch Surfaces

Cagatay Basdogan, Frederic Giraud, Vincent Levesque, Seungmoon Choi
2020 IEEE Transactions on Haptics  
This review primarily covers the tactile interactions of human fingers or hands with surface-haptics displays by focusing on the three most popular actuation methods: vibrotactile, electrostatic, and ultrasonic  ...  We review the current technology underlying surface haptics that converts passive touch surfaces to active ones (machine haptics), our perception of tactile stimuli displayed through touch surfaces (human  ...  It is highly difficult to measure or estimate the real area of contact, A real , which varies nonlinearly with the normal force.  ... 
doi:10.1109/toh.2020.2990712 pmid:32340960 fatcat:vyhlk3yc2bfqhpmstesg4m2zxu

Intelligent magnetic manipulation for gastrointestinal ultrasound

Joseph C. Norton, Piotr R. Slawinski, Holly S. Lay, James W. Martin, Benjamin F. Cox, Gerard Cummins, Marc P.Y. Desmulliez, Richard E. Clutton, Keith L. Obstein, Sandy Cochran, Pietro Valdastri
2019 Science Robotics  
We investigated and showed the feasibility of closed-loop magnetic control using digitized microultrasound (μUS) feedback; this is crucial for obtaining robust imaging in an unknown and unconstrained environment  ...  We demonstrated the functionality of an autonomous servoing algorithm that uses μUS feedback, both on benchtop trials and in vivo in a porcine model.  ...  Richard Mosses for effective  ... 
doi:10.1126/scirobotics.aav7725 pmid:31380501 pmcid:PMC6677276 fatcat:knxdpdmk7vbcvaxgbz4vjjopfm

Guest Editorial Introduction to the Focused Section on Optomechatronics

Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi, Hyungsuck Cho, Toshio Fukuda
2010 IEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics  
During last decade, much effort has been put on the development of real-time visual feedback and haptic control during nanomanipulation using AFM.  ...  [2] realized an augmented reality system for AFM-based nanomanipulation by incorporating real-time visual feedback information to facilitate the manipulator.  ... 
doi:10.1109/tmech.2010.2052283 fatcat:s7ybg67rm5afbci67jcrotj7iy

Sensor-Enabled Multi-Robot System for Automated Welding and In-Process Ultrasonic NDE

Momchil Vasilev, Charles N. MacLeod, Charalampos Loukas, Yashar Javadi, Randika K. W. Vithanage, David Lines, Ehsan Mohseni, Stephen Gareth Pierce, Anthony Gachagan
2021 Sensors  
Full external positional control is achieved in real time allowing for on-the-fly motion correction, based on multi-sensory input.  ...  The higher production rates of automated welding have increased the need for fast, robotically deployed Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE), replacing current time-consuming manually deployed inspection.  ...  The protocol is based on an interpolation cycle, which executes in real-time intervals of 4 ms for KRC (KUKA Robot Controller) 4 controller-based robots, and 12 ms for legacy KRC 2-based robots.  ... 
doi:10.3390/s21155077 fatcat:3ofryrhkrbbtfjpgo5hrfymdvy

Acoustics and atomic force microscopy for the mechanical characterization of thin films

Daniele Passeri, Andrea Bettucci, Marco Rossi
2010 Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry  
High-frequency ultrasonic techniquesespecially acoustic microscopy-and atomic force microscopy (AFM) have been demonstrated to represent versatile tools for developing such methods.  ...  techniques led researchers to develop some unique tools which allow one to perform not only spot measurements of the sample elastic modulus, but also to obtain both the qualitative imaging of mechanical  ...  For ultrasonic AFM experiments, the sample is coupled with an ultrasonic transducer (UT) which is controlled either by a sinusoidal signal supplied by a signal generator (SG) for SLAM/AFAM or by a ramped  ... 
doi:10.1007/s00216-009-3402-8 pmid:20069282 fatcat:32lkysblundv7dvqavakucapui

Mechanisms of Friction Reduction of Nanoscale Sliding Contacts Achieved Through Ultrasonic Excitation

Hossein Jiryaei Sharahi, Philip Egberts, Seonghwan Kim
2018 Nanotechnology  
in the microscopic contact and the influence of the ultrasonic parameters on friction reduction are still elusive.  ...  This study opens up a new door for the control of friction and wear, which is critical for the increased lifetime of AFM probes, N-/MEMS devices and would potentially bridge the gap between nanotribology  ...  SK acknowledges support from the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program and the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).  ... 
doi:10.1088/1361-6528/aaf3cd pmid:30523838 fatcat:57jehsbcmrhvdeax3iggedsyz4

Fabrication of soft gold microelectrode arrays as probes for scanning electrochemical microscopy

Andreas Lesch, Dmitry Momotenko, Fernando Cortés-Salazar, Ingo Wirth, Ushula Mengesha Tefashe, Frank Meiners, Britta Vaske, Hubert H. Girault, Gunther Wittstock
2012 Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry  
The softness of the array leads to a bending and allows scanning in contact mode like brushing the sample surface.  ...  Nanoparticulate gold ink was printed on polyimide Kapton HN Ò thin films. After sintering, a 200 nm thick Parylene C coating was deposited to cover and seal the gold tracks.  ...  T. thanks for a grant of German Academic Exchange Service.  ... 
doi:10.1016/j.jelechem.2011.12.005 fatcat:fqcxtqy5ybdilmsr6hwz63zzvu

Application of the dual-frequency ultrasonometer for osteoporosis detection

Armen Sarvazyan, Alexey Tatarinov, Vladimir Egorov, Souren Airapetian, Victor Kurtenok, Charles J. Gatt
2009 Ultrasonics  
Assessment of bone conditions is based on evaluating relative changes of the axial profiles of ultrasonic characteristics in long bones and utilizes bulk and guided acoustic waves.  ...  Based on the ROC analysis, BUSS demonstrated 76% sensitivity and 70% specificity to DXAidentified osteoporosis.  ...  N Sarvazyan for useful discussions.  ... 
doi:10.1016/j.ultras.2008.10.003 pmid:19036394 pmcid:PMC2788614 fatcat:t7ccph6b6rddvdculmbdljpn4e
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