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Conference Object Kinematic Design of a Novel Finger Exoskeleton Mechanism for Rehabilitation Exercises(Springer international Publishing Ag, 2024) Kiper, Gokhan; Inanc, EmirhanThe paper presents the kinematic design of a novel low-cost two degree-of-freedom finger exoskeleton mechanism to be used for rehabilitation exercises for post-stroke or injured patients. The first degree-of freedom is for the flexion/extension of metacarpophalangeal joint and is achieved via a planar 4-bar loop. The second degree-of-freedom is for the simultaneous flexion/extension of distal/proximal interphalangeal joints and is achieved via an over-constrained double-spherical 6-bar linkage, where 3 of the links are the phalanges of the finger and 2 of the joints are finger joints themselves. So, the number of extra links are less compared to other designs in the literature. The motion of an index finger is recorded via image processing. The four-bar mechanism part is designed for optimum transmission angle characteristics. The formulation and application of the kinematic synthesis of the 6-bar linkage is presented. The design is verified via a prototype.Book Part Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 1A Historical Review of Polyhedral Linkages(Springer, 2024) Kiper, GökhanPolyhedral linkages are linkages that resemble polyhedral shapes at different configurations. This paper summarizes the necessary geometrical fundamentals of polyhedral geometry and presents a historical and critical review of the polyhedral linkage designs available in the literature. Basic definitions of polyhedral geometry and operations are needed to comprehend and design polyhedral linkages. First, early works on polyhedral linkages are presented, where flexible polyhedra with rigid faces and flexible edges are issued. The final part is reserved to conformal polyhedral linkages, which go through shape transformations while plane, dihedral and solid angles are preserved. Conformal polyhedral linkages are examined in four categories: 1) Jitterbug-like linkages with screwing polygonal links connected to each other with dihedral angle preserving links, 2) polyhedral linkages with planar kinematic chains in radial motion planes, 3) polyhedral linkages with planar kinematic chains on faces, that are connected to each other with dihedral angle preserving links, and 4) other conformal polyhedral linkages. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 3Design and Manufacturing of a Hip Joint Motion Simulator With a Novel Modular Design Approach(Springer, 2024) Torabnia, S.; Mihçin, D.Ş.; Lazoglu, I.The study is aimed to develop a hip joint wear simulator using a modular design approach to help experimentally monitor and control critical wear parameters to validate in-silico wear models. The proper control and application of wear parameters such as the range of motion, and the applied force values while estimating the lost material due to wear are essential for thorough analysis of wear phenomena for artificial joints. The simulator's dynamics were first modeled, then dynamic loading data was used to calculate the forces, which were further used for topology optimization to reduce the forces acting on each joint. The reduction of the link weights, connected to the actuators, intends to improve the quality of motion transferred to the femoral head. The modular design approach enables topology-optimized geometry, associated gravitational and dynamic forces, resulting in a cost-effective, energy-efficient product. Moreover, this design allows integration of the subject specific data by allowing different boundary conditions following the requirements of industry 5.0. Overall, the in-vitro motion stimulations of the hip-joint prosthesis and the modular design approach used in the study might help improve the accuracy and the effectiveness of wear simulations, which could lead into the development of better and longer-lasting joint prostheses for all. The subject-specific and society-based daily life data implemented as boundary conditions enable inclusion of the personalized effects. Next, with the results of the simulator, CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) application is intended to cover the personalized effects for previously excluded populations, providing solution to inclusive design for all. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag France SAS, part of Springer Nature.Article Citation - WoS: 9Citation - Scopus: 11Experimental Investigation of Spray Characteristics of Ethyl Esters in a Constant Volume Chamber(Springer, 2024) Ulu, A.; Yildiz, G.; Özkol, Ü.; Rodriguez, A.D.Abstract: Biodiesels are mainly produced via the utilization of methanol in transesterification, which is the widespread biodiesel production process. The majority of this methanol is currently obtained from fossil resources, i.e. coal and natural gas. However, in contrast with methanol, biomass-based ethanol can also be used to produce biodiesels; this could allow the production line to become fully renewable. This study aimed to investigate the spray characteristics of various ethyl ester type biodiesels derived from sunflower and corn oils in comparison to methyl esters based on the same feedstocks and reference petroleum-based diesel. Spray penetration length (SPL) and spray cone angle (SCA) were experimentally evaluated in a constant volume chamber allowing optical access, under chamber pressures of 0, 5, 10 and 15 bar and injection pressures of 600 and 800 bar. Sauter mean diameter (SMD) values were estimated by using an analytical correlation. Consequently, ethyl esters performed longer SPL (2.8–20%) and narrower SCA (5.1–19%) than diesel under ambient pressures of 5 and 10 bar. Although the SMD values of ethyl esters were 48% higher than diesel on average, their macroscopic spray characteristics were very similar to those of diesel under 15 bar chamber pressure. Moreover, ethyl esters were found to be very similar to methyl esters in terms of spray characteristics. The differences in SPL, SCA and SMD values for both types of biodiesels were lower than 4%. When considering the uncertainty (± 0.84%) and repeatability (±5%) ratios, the difference between the spray characteristics of methyl and ethyl esters was not major. Graphical abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.] © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.Data Paper Citation - WoS: 15Citation - Scopus: 20Database Covering the Prayer Movements Which Were Not Available Previously(Nature Publishing Group, 2023) Mihçin, Şenay; Şahin, Ahmet Mert; Yılmaz, Mehmet; Alpkaya, Alican Tuncay; Tuna, Merve; Akdeniz, Sevinç; Can, Nuray Korkmaz; Tosun, Aliye; Şahin, SerapLower body implants are designed according to the boundary conditions of gait data and tested against. However, due to diversity in cultural backgrounds, religious rituals might cause different ranges of motion and different loading patterns. Especially in the Eastern part of the world, diverse Activities of Daily Living (ADL) consist of salat, yoga rituals, and different style sitting postures. A database covering these diverse activities of the Eastern world is non-existent. This study focuses on data collection protocol and the creation of an online database of previously excluded ADL activities, targeting 200 healthy subjects via Qualisys and IMU motion capture systems, and force plates, from West and Middle East Asian populations with a special focus on the lower body joints. The current version of the database covers 50 volunteers for 13 different activities. The tasks are defined and listed in a table to create a database to search based on age, gender, BMI, type of activity, and motion capture system. The collected data is to be used for designing implants to allow these sorts of activities to be performed.Conference Object Citation - WoS: 3Citation - Scopus: 3Experimental Evaluation of the Success of Peg-In Tasks Learned From Demonstration(IEEE, 2022) Argüz, Serdar Hakan; Ertuğrul, Şeniz; Altun, KeremIndustrial robots are traditionally programmed by hard-coding the desired motion into them. That approach, however, costs significant time and effort and shows little to no promise in transferring human skills to robots. Programming by demonstration (PbD) is an alternative approach that allows robots to learn tasks from demonstrations. Because of its several advantages over the traditional method, PbD is particularly suited for tasks encountered in assembly operations, the most typical of which is the peg-in-hole task. A successful PbD implementation for a peg-in-hole task requires that the peg should still be inserted into the hole even under situations that are not encountered during the demonstrations. Previous research in the field shows that the success rate of a peg-in-hole task under such cases varies greatly. In this study, we use a UR5 manipulator to experimentally investigate how the success rate of a peg-in-hole task changes with respect to the novelty of the task, quantified in terms of the distance of the hole to its original position. It is found that the success ratio decreases as the novelty of the task increases. To increase the performance, the use of strategies that alter the robot's motion dynamically in the run time is suggested for future work.Conference Object Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 1Modeling a Magneto-Rheological Fluid-Based Brake Via a Neural Network Method(Springer international Publishing Ag, 2022) Kucukoglu, Sefa Furkan; Dede, Mehmet Ismet Can; Ceccarelli, MarcoIdentifying the model of a magneto-rheological (MR) fluid-based brake is extremely important for designing and controlling a haptic device with hybrid actuation. Therefore, in this study, an Elman Recurrent Neural Network (ERNN) is designed to understand and model a characterization of an MR fluid-based rotational brake. Three important factors that affect the MR brake's performance are chosen as inputs: current, speed, and the first derivative of the input current. The proposed network is trained, and the performance of the network is tested with three different experimental scenarios. Then, the effect of these inputs on the system is investigated. According to the results, it can be said that the designed ERNN is a good candidate for modelling an MR brake.Conference Object Citation - Scopus: 1Kinematic Representation of a Biomimetic Squid Soft Robot's Arms in a Simulation Environment(Springer international Publishing Ag, 2022) Emet, Hazal; Dede, M. I. CanBiomimetic robot systems have received attention from researchers and in accordance the implementation of soft robotic arms has been studied. Kinematic and dynamic modeling of robots with infinite degrees of freedom is challenging and a number of methods have been proposed. In this work, a procedure is proposed to represent soft robot arm motion in a simulation environment. A biomimetic squid robot is used as a case study. This robot's soft arms are modeled by using the Piecewise Constant Curvature approach. This model is visualized by discretizing the soft arms into a finite number of rigid-body manipulators in MatLab using its 3D animation toolbox.Article Citation - WoS: 5Citation - Scopus: 6Active Heat Transfer Enhancement by Interface-Localized Liquid Dielectrophoresis Using Interdigitated Electrodes(Elsevier, 2022) Yenigün, Onur; Barışık, MuratWe introduced an active heat transfer control between graphene and water using interdigitated electrodes (IDEs). Oppositely charged co-planer electrodes embedded on a graphene surface created a non-uniform electric field. Resulted interface localized liquid dielectrophoresis (LDEP) perpendicular to surface enhanced the water/graphene coupling and decreased interfacial thermal resistance (ITR) substantially. We correlated the theoretical calculations of average electric field strength near surface with Kapitza values measured at corresponding electrode configurations. We obtained a unified linear variation of Kapitza as a function of average electric strength independent of electrode size and charge. By increasing the electric field strength, we measured up to 96% decrease of Kapitza near electrodes. Since the IDEs generated electric field was only interface localized, it required lower electrode charges than any parallel-plate capacitor systems. We showed that ITR remains effective in heat transfer behavior for systems as big as 100nm such that interface localized electric field can at least increase the heat removal 50% by eliminating the ITR from both graphene/water interfaces of a channel system. By converting hydrophobic few-layer graphene to super-hydrophilic condition with ultra-low Kapitza, current results are important for graphene-based materials considered for the solution of the thermal management problem of current and next generation micro/nano-electronics.Conference Object A sustainable association case study: IFToMM member organization Turkey(Springer, 2022) Kiper, Gökhan; Söylemez, EresAs a member of IFToMM founded in 2011, Turkish Machine Theory Association’s (MakTeD) structure has put special emphasis on sustainability of the association and initiated several activities for improving the quality of education and research in mechanism and machine science area, hence supporting the SDG4 Quality Education of the UN. This paper presents the activities and methodologies of MakTeD. The paper starts with a brief history of mechanism and machine science in Turkey. In 10 years MakTeD organized 4 symposiums, 1 conference, 4 summer/winter schools, 8 workshops and hosted an IFToMM Executive Council meeting. Each chapter of the biyearly held National Symposium on Theory of Machines is held by a different university and especially newly established and the universities in relatively smaller cities are prioritized in order to promote those universities and to contribute to development of these universities. Especially the summer/winter schools and workshops have a widespread impact on mechanism and machine science education and research at the universities and institutions. MakTeD also contributes to the community with published books and support programs for young researchers.