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View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis article reports on an experiment that studied the critical angular clamping speeds for fasteners using the Design of Experiments (DOE) methodology and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The study aimed to investigate the stick-slip phenomenon, a critical factor limiting the angular speed. The stick-slip was measured using the stick-slip factor, which is defined as the ratio of stick-slip chattering amplitude to frequency.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFManual wheelchair propulsion is known to be inefficient and causes upper extremity pain, fatigue, and injury. Power-assisted wheelchairs can mitigate these effects through motors that reduce users' effort and load during propulsion. Among the different control strategies proposed to govern the user-wheelchair interaction, impedance control-based ones appear to be the most natural and effective.
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