The method returns the optimal thermoelectric element (TE) design (leg length, leg section and number of legs) and optimal electric current, assuming that the hot and cold operating temperatures, the thermal power demand and the material properties are known.
I mentioned in an article in International Design magazine that it would be great to have a pair of beautifully designed legs; I found it weird that all that doctors could offer was a wooden leg with a rubber foot - especially in America, where we're so obsessed with aesthetics.
The main control program running on an external PC calculates each joint angle using inverse kinematics from an designed leg trajectory.
One of the most successful has been the tetrapod, a four-legged design, each leg projecting from the centre at an angle of 109 1/2° from each of the other three.
(I will give him a nod for his spider-legged juice squeezer for Alessi; if you'll pardon the unpardonable pun, that design has legs).
Cham's role was to design the legs and joints.
Overall, the gait design of legs is more flexible in CLM.
Nimble's adopter, Christine Broyles, is working with a Colorado-based 3-D printing company to design prosthetic legs for her.
Lifestyle changes and individual variability may confound exercise trials but can be minimised using a within-subject unilateral design (exercise leg [EL] vs. control leg [CL]) that has high statistical power.
Based on the generalized-function (GF) set theory, a systematic type synthesis process of designing robot legs is introduced.
