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In Vivo Laparoscopic Robotics, Mark E. Rentschler, Stephen R. Platt, Jason Dumpert, Shane M. Farritor, Dmitry Oleynikov Jan 2006

In Vivo Laparoscopic Robotics, Mark E. Rentschler, Stephen R. Platt, Jason Dumpert, Shane M. Farritor, Dmitry Oleynikov

Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering: Faculty Publications

Robotic laparoscopic surgery is evolving to include in vivo robotic assistants. The impetus for the development of this technology is to provide surgeons with additional viewpoints and unconstrained manipulators that improve safety and reduce patient trauma. A family of these robots have been developed to provide vision and task assistance. Fixed-base and mobile robots have been designed and tested in animal models with much success. A cholecystectomy, prostatectomy, and nephrectomy have all been performed with the assistance of these robots. These early successful tests show how in vivo laparoscopic robotics may be part of the next advancement in surgical technology.


Loading And Recovery Behavior Of The Human Lumbar Spine Under Static Flexion, Guntulu Selen Hatipkarasulu Jan 2006

Loading And Recovery Behavior Of The Human Lumbar Spine Under Static Flexion, Guntulu Selen Hatipkarasulu

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Musculoskeletal disorders account for 32 percent of work related injuries and illnesses. Extensive studies have been conducted to understand and explore the factors that affect the development of musculoskeletal disorders to provide effective control strategies. One of the most important factors that allow effective control strategies is the biomechanical factors. Among the biomechanical risk factors, exposures to repetitive static and vibratory activities are known to result in musculoskeletal disorders. A ligamento–muscular reflex activity exists in humans and animals to stabilize the knee, shoulder, elbow, ankle joints, and spine. This reflex activity decreases over time when static loading is applied, which …


Design And Fabrication Of Micro Transducers Using Cured Su-8 Polymer As Main Structural Material, Wen Dai Jan 2006

Design And Fabrication Of Micro Transducers Using Cured Su-8 Polymer As Main Structural Material, Wen Dai

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Polymer based micro-transducers have many advantages over the traditional silicon based micro-transducers, such as easy integration with metal structures, design flexibility, and low fabrication costs. The characteristics of micro-transducers include converting electrical signals to/from mechanical response, the ability to sustain loading, sensitivity to external excitation, and etc. Some of the difficulties in realizing these characteristics include: characterizing material mechanical properties, techniques for producing electrically conductive polymer structures, and reliable fabrication procedures. In this dissertation, research addressing these difficulties is presented. The developed techniques are demonstrated in the design and fabrication of a SU-8 polymer based comb-drive micro-actuator. The micro-actuator used …


Towards A Generalized Team Task Complexity Model, Ashok Darisipudi Jan 2006

Towards A Generalized Team Task Complexity Model, Ashok Darisipudi

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The objective of this research was to develop and validate a generalized team task-complexity model and framework by drawing on the literature from various team and task factors grouped into three task-dimensions, which compose task-complexity space and how these affect the task-performance. A number of task typologies have been presented in the teams' literature to better define and understand the critical role of the tasks and the associated team processes. In addition, most of the research work has defined team measures as highly abstract concepts not capable of providing the quantitative comparison of team performances from various domains. This research …


A Micromechanical Approach For Predicting The Complex Shear Modulus And Accumulated Shear Strain Of Asphalt Mixtures From Binder And Mastics, Cristian Druta Jan 2006

A Micromechanical Approach For Predicting The Complex Shear Modulus And Accumulated Shear Strain Of Asphalt Mixtures From Binder And Mastics, Cristian Druta

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Asphalt mixtures are particulate composite materials consisting of uniformly distributed mineral aggregates, asphalt binder and air voids. Mixtures of asphalt binder and filler, also called mastics, are often assumed to behave as simple viscoelastic materials, where the binders are stiffened by the filler. Because the workability and performance of bituminous mixes are known to be affected by the filler-asphalt mixture (or mastic) properties, this study is intended for performing rheological tests on asphalt binder and mastics and use the results in order to estimate performance parameters of asphalt mixture. The present work uses the PG64-22 asphalt binder test data initially …


Ultra-Violet Lithography Of Thick Photoresist For The Applications In Biomems And Micro Optics, Ren Yang Jan 2006

Ultra-Violet Lithography Of Thick Photoresist For The Applications In Biomems And Micro Optics, Ren Yang

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

UV lithography of thick photoresist is widely used in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and micro-optoelectromechanical systems (MOEMS). SU-8 is a typical negative tone thick photoresist for micro systems, and can be used for both structural material and pattern transfer. This dissertation presents an effort to comprehensively study these important subjects. The first part, and the most fundamental part of this dissertation concentrated on the numerical analysis and experimental study of the wavelength dependent absorbance of SU-8 and the diffraction effects on the sidewall profiles of the microstructures made using UV lithography of SU-8. This study has laid the foundation for all …


Low Temperature Co-Fired Ceramics For Micro-Fluidics, John Youngsman, Brian Marx, Martin Schimpf, Scott Wolter, Jeff Glass, Amy Moll Jan 2006

Low Temperature Co-Fired Ceramics For Micro-Fluidics, John Youngsman, Brian Marx, Martin Schimpf, Scott Wolter, Jeff Glass, Amy Moll

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

The miniaturization of analytical instruments and packaging of novel sensors is an area that has attracted significant research interest and offers many opportunities for product commercialization. Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramics (LTCC) is a materials system composed of alumina and glass in an organic binder. LTCC is a good choice for sensor development because of the ease of incorporating features in the ‘green’ or unfired state such as electrical traces, fluidic pathways and passive electrical components. After a firing cycle, what remains is a robust, monolithic device with features embedded in the package. In order for LTCC to be a successful …


Fabrication Of Oxide Superconducting Thin Films Using Colloid Of Nanoparticles As Precursor, Vamsee K. Chintamaneni Jan 2006

Fabrication Of Oxide Superconducting Thin Films Using Colloid Of Nanoparticles As Precursor, Vamsee K. Chintamaneni

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

This thesis reports the development of a new approach for the fabrication of superconducting thin films. Among the liquid phase methods of fabricating high temperature superconductors having critical current density about 1 MA/cm2, metalorganic deposition using metal trifluoroacetates (TFA-MOD) is the best known method. In this project, detailed spectroscopic and microscopic analysis was performed at every stage of the TFA-MOD process to understand the evolution of crystalline superconducting film. It was observed that the TFA-MOD has some inherent disadvantages such as long process time, evolution of HF gas and results porosity in films. A new liquid phase process …


Chapter 7 Impact Of Interconnecting Issue Of Pv/Wes With Eu On Their Reliability Using A Fuzzy Scheme, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset Dec 2005

Chapter 7 Impact Of Interconnecting Issue Of Pv/Wes With Eu On Their Reliability Using A Fuzzy Scheme, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

No abstract provided.


Chapter 5 Operation Control Strategy And Simulation Of Wtg Interconnected With Eu, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset Dec 2005

Chapter 5 Operation Control Strategy And Simulation Of Wtg Interconnected With Eu, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

No abstract provided.


Chapter 4 Design Of Wes Interconnected With Eu, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset Dec 2005

Chapter 4 Design Of Wes Interconnected With Eu, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

No abstract provided.


Definations, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset Dec 2005

Definations, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

No abstract provided.


Abstract English, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset Dec 2005

Abstract English, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

Abstract of Ph. D. Thesis Study of Interconnecting Issues of Photovoltaic/Wind Hybrid System with Electric Utility Using Artificial Intelligence By Eng. Adel A. Elbaset Submitted to Electrical Engineering Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Elminia University The overall objective of PV and WES are to obtain electricity from the sun and wind that are cost competitive and even advantageous with respect to other energy sources. The global average insolation i.e. horizontal global and wind speed in Egypt are relatively good. The design of photovoltaic wind en¬ergy system hybrid power system (PV/WES HEPS) has many difficulties if we take all economical and technical …


Chapter 1 Introduction And Previous Work, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset Dec 2005

Chapter 1 Introduction And Previous Work, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

No abstract provided.


Arabic Abstract, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset Dec 2005

Arabic Abstract, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

ملخص الرسالة "دراسة قضايا ربط نظام مختلط من منظومة فوتوفولتية و منظومة رياح مع شبكة كهربية بإستخدام الذكاء الاصطناعي" يشهد العالم إرتفاعاًَ ملحوظاَ في أسعار الوقود الحفري منذ نهاية القرن الماضي وحتي الاّن ، ويزداد هذا الإرتفاع والتناقص في المخزون يوماَ بعد يوم. ولهذا فقد إتجهت أنظار الباحثين في مجال توليد القدرة الكهربية إلي التوسع في إستغلال مصادر الطاقة الغير تقليدية وبصفة خاصة مصادر الطاقة الجديدة والمتجددة. وتعتبر الطاقة الجديدة والمتجددة من الطاقة التي لا تنضب بالاستخدام لأنها تعتمد علي مصادر طبيعية متجددة ، ومن أمثلة هذه المصادر الشمس، والرياح، والمد والجزر، حرارة باطن الأرض …………..الخ. ولقد أصبح استغلال هذه …


Examining Committee, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset Dec 2005

Examining Committee, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

No abstract provided.


References, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset Dec 2005

References, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

No abstract provided.


A_ Cover, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset Dec 2005

A_ Cover, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

No abstract provided.


Contents, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset Dec 2005

Contents, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

No abstract provided.


Computer Programs, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset Dec 2005

Computer Programs, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

No abstract provided.


Chapter 8 Conclusions And Suggestions For Future Work, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset Dec 2005

Chapter 8 Conclusions And Suggestions For Future Work, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

No abstract provided.


Chapter 3 Operation Control Strategy And Simulation Of Pv System Interconnected With Eu, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset Dec 2005

Chapter 3 Operation Control Strategy And Simulation Of Pv System Interconnected With Eu, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

No abstract provided.


Chapter 6 Design And Control Strategy Of Pv/Wes Heps Interconnected With Eu, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset Dec 2005

Chapter 6 Design And Control Strategy Of Pv/Wes Heps Interconnected With Eu, Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

Dr. Adel A. Elbaset

No abstract provided.


30 Adet Pantone Rengin Ink Formulation Programi Kullanilarak Hazirlanmasi, Bilge N. Altay, Nazli Burcu Taklak Dec 2005

30 Adet Pantone Rengin Ink Formulation Programi Kullanilarak Hazirlanmasi, Bilge N. Altay, Nazli Burcu Taklak

Bilge Nazli Altay

Ink Formulation programı kullanılarak formülasyon bileşenleri bulunmak istenen renk, hedef renk olarak tanımlanır ve programa girişi spektral fotometre ile ölçülerek yapılır. Ink Formulation programı tanımlanan hedef rengin üretimi için eldeki mevcut mürekkep ve artık mürekkepleri karıştırarak, hangi mürekkepten ne kadar konulacağını gösterecek şekilde bileşenlerin formülasyon yüzdelerini hesaplayan bir masaüstü yayıncılık programıdır. Bu çalışmanın 1. bölümünde program hakkında bilgi; bölüm 2’de yazılımın kurulumu hakkında bilgi; bölüm 3’de ColorNet yazılımı hakkında bilgi; bölüm 4’de programının yapısı ve görevleri hakkında bilgi; bölüm 5’de programı başlatma hakkında bilgi; bölüm 6’da seçilen bir hedef rengin hesaplanması hakkında bilgi; bölüm 7’de formülasyonu yapılmış bir rengin ihtiyacı …