Japan Society for Design Engineering

Journal "Design Engineering" Vol.44,No.4 2009
CONTENTS

Special Issue: Design with Passive/Unactuated Joints
Explanation
Robot Manipulator with Passive Joint Structure		Yasumichi AIYAMA	1
Design of Parallel Manipulators with Consideration to Joints Location		Yukio TAKEDA	8
Saving Energy Using Passive Elements for a Vertically Articulated Manipulator		Teruyuki IZUMI	14
Design of Passive Toe Joint for Emulation of Human Walking by Biped Humanoid Robot		Hideki KONDO Atsuo TAKANISHI	21
Omni-Directional Mobile Robot with Omni-Wheels and Learning Program		Atsushi IMADU Hirofumi HAMAGUCHI Miki TACHIKAWA	27
Series: Laboratory Introduction Relay (12)
Transport Phenomena (Iguchi) Laboratory		Manabu IGUCHI	34
Production Systems Engineering (Asahina) Laboratory		Keiichi ASAHINA	35
Paper
Chucking Force Monitoring System for Lathe		Kazuhiro YOKOYAMA Yuki KAWASAKI Tetsuya GOKAN	36
Development and Evaluation of a CAI System for Simulating 3-Dimentional Gear Mechanism Construction		Hironobu YUKI Yuichi YOSHIZAWA	42
Design and Construction of Resonant Cavity Applicator for Brain Tumor Hyperthermia Treatment by Using Electromagnetic Modes without Contact		Tadao YABUHARA Kazuo KATO	48
Development of Jumping Robot for Wall-surface Operation (1st Report, Concept Proposal and Basic Experiment)		Takahiro TANAKA Noriaki IMAOKA Kichinosuke HIROKAWA Shigeo HIROSE	58

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