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Design Of Parallel Robot For Dental Articulation And Its Optimization, Abulimiti Delimulati
Design Of Parallel Robot For Dental Articulation And Its Optimization, Abulimiti Delimulati
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
A dental articulator is a mechanical device used to simulate the relative position and motion between the upper and lower jaw when constructing and testing dental prostheses. Typically, it can be adjusted to approximate patient-specific jaw kinematics in order to analogue the static relationship and specific motions of a patient’s mandible to maxilla. However, the use of dental articulators is essentially a trial-and-error method in order to fine-tune fit and function of a dental prosthesis. Some of the most advanced current dental articulators can reproduce the position and the motion passively; furthermore, dentists need special training for measuring patients’ maxillofacial …
Ring And Peg Simulation For Minimally Invasive Surgical Robot, Evan Brown
Ring And Peg Simulation For Minimally Invasive Surgical Robot, Evan Brown
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Surgical procedures utilizing minimally invasive laparoscopic techniques have shown less complications, better cosmetic results, and less time in the hospital than conventional surgery. These advantages are partially offset by inherent difficulties of the procedures which include an inverted control scheme, instrument clashing, and loss of triangulation. Surgical robots have been designed to overcome the limitations, the Da Vinci being the most widely used. A dexterous in vivo, two-armed robot, designed to enter an insufflated abdomen with a limited insertion profile and expand to perform a variety of operations, has been created as a less expensive, versatile alternative to the Da …