Tendon-driven mechanisms have gained prominence in a range of applications, including soft robots, exoskeletons, and prosthetic devices. These mechanism use flexible tendons or cables to transmit force and control joint movement. As the popularity of these mechanisms grows, there is an increasing demand for solutions to enhance stability and safety. The use of brakes is a well-known solution, but existing models are difficult to customize for small soft robots. In this paper, we present a one-way shape memory alloy-based compact brake for tendon-driven mechanisms. The proposed soft brake featured a thin design and was tailored for seamless integration within a tendon-driven mechanism. In addition, the use of the one-way shape memory alloys enabled the design of the brakes that are both compact and powerful. This brake is expected to be widely used in miniaturized tendon-driven robots.

홀로그램 이미지를 표시할 수 있는 자동차 리어 램프를 제작했다. 홀로그램은 노광할 때 물체 광은 0도, 참조 광은 60도가 되게 광학계를 설계해 투과 타입으로 제작했다. 홀로그램과 광원을 일체형으로 하면서 두께 30mm의 콤팩트 한 재생 장치를 제작했다. 홀로그램 크기는 200×100mm로 제작했다. 에지릿 홀로그램으로 콤팩트 한 재생 장치에 적 용하기 적합했다. 리어 램프는 미등, 정지등, 방향지시등, 후진등과 홀로그램 재생 장치를 포함 시켜 아크릴로 제작했 다. 리어 램프의 외관은 홀로그램 이미지의 의도와 연결되게 배트맨 모양으로 디자인했다. 에지릿 홀로그램을 이용한 콤팩트 한 재생 장치는 리어 램프의 기능과 연계해 사용하기에 적합하다는 것을 확인하였다.

Numerical analysis has been carried out to investigate the characteristics of seawater flow fields and turbine output in a compact double current tidal power generation system for various level differences. There are growing concerns for the development of efficient tidal power generation which is stable and less affected by environmental circumstances as ocean energy. Especially the flow field characteristics in the compact tidal power generation system have a large influence on the system power generation performance. Flow velocity, pressure, and streamline distributions are compared including vertical type turbine out, and it can be predicted that seawater is accelerated by vortex flow in front of the turbine and there is severe turbine output variation due to the water level difference with pressure difference. These results can be applied as basic data for the effective development of compact tidal power generation system.

We study the photometric phase curves for the planets of our solar system which can be considered as a prototypical non-compact planetary system. We focus on modeling the small variations caused by three effects: reflection, ellipsoidal, and Doppler beaming. Theoretical predictions for these photometric variations are proposed, considering a hypothetical external observer. Unlike similar studies of multi-planetary systems, the physical and geometrical parameters for each planet of the solar system are well-known. Therefore, we can accurately evaluate the relationships that shape the planetary light curves for a fictitious external observer. Our results suggest that, for all planets, the ellipsoidal effect is very weak while the Doppler beaming effect (DBE) is, in general, dominant. In fact, the DBE seems to be the principal cause of variations of the light curves for the planets of the solar system. However, for Mercury and Venus the Doppler beaming and reflection effects have similar amplitudes. The phase curves obtained for the planets of the solar system show new interesting features of interest for the study of other non-compact planetary systems.