Summary: <p></p> <p><a href="http://iws.punahou.edu/user/lcouillard/Robotic%20assist.m4v">Download file</a> (right-click and "save as...")</p> <p>The Robotic Assisted Tennis Sleeve is a feasible, safe, and efficient non-surgical treatment for those who have difficulty learning advanced techniques of the swing-paths, joint-angles, backswings, and finishes of professional players.</p> <p><strong>Robotic Assisted Tennis Sleeve Specifications: </strong></p> <p><strong>Systems Integrators</strong> - System integrators are used to establish the requirements of a motion in the swing-paths of the classic, straight, or bent-arm forehands.</p> <p><strong>Robotic Rotary Joint</strong> - Consisting of a stationary part connected to the arm of the robot and a rotating part connected to the wrist and sleeve allowing for electrical and pneumatic cables to stay in place while cables required for the sleeve are free to rotate. </p> <p><strong>Internal Sensor</strong> - An apparatus within the manipulator arm that sends information on motion to a control unit.</p> <p><strong>Presence-Sensing Safeguarding Device</strong> - A mechanism used to sense and detect when an object enters a given area that could potential hurt the player.</p> <p><strong>Rotational Motion</strong> - Describes circular movement with respect to the axis.</p> <p><strong>Systems Compensator</strong> - A remote device that involves multiple shear pads to help with spin, swing-path and speed operations. Refers to position-level and velocity-level.</p> <p><strong>Acceleration-Level</strong> - The measure of variation of joint speeds over time. Double and single differentiation of this level gives the overall change in position and change in position overtime, respectively. </p> <p><strong>Resolved-rate</strong> - Determining the joint's overall changed in velocity over time based on restrictions of the end-effector's motion.</p> <p><strong>Velocity-level</strong> - The measure of variation of joint position over time. Yields the overall change in position. Single differentiation yields the change in joint speed over time. </p> <p><strong>Manual Programming</strong> - The user physically sets specific tasks and limits on the robot.</p> <p><strong>Biomimetic</strong> - Imitation of biological systems occurring in nature</p> <p>I<strong>nverse Kinematics</strong> - Determination of a joint's overall change in position based on restrictions on the end-effector's motion of a robot.</p> <p><strong>Awareness Signal</strong> - A sound or light that alerts one if joint angles are too extreme.</p> <p>I<strong>nterface</strong> - The separation between robots and the equipment not nearby. The sensors that are required for communication between the devices use signals relaying input and output data.</p> <p><strong>Energy Source</strong> - Energy is provided by conversion of various types of sources such spin, backswing and follow-through.</p> <p><strong>Equality constraint</strong> - The end-effector's change of position, movement and location must be equal to counter-movement of the opposite arm action.</p> <p><strong>Fixed Automation</strong> - Automated, electronically controlled system for classic, straight, bent or circular motions. These systems are mainly used for students who have little flexibility.</p> <p><strong>Flexibility</strong> - The diverse jobs that a robot is capable of executing. </p> <p><strong>Fully Constrained Sleeve</strong> - The number of equality constraints on the robot are equal to the number of independent joints.</p>
