With recent advances in microprocessor chip technology, wireless communication, and biomedical engineering it is possible to develop miniaturized ubiquitous health monitoring devices that are capable of recording physiological and movement signals during daily life activities. The aim of the research is to implement and test the prototype of health monitoring system. The system consists of the body central unit with Bluetooth module and wearable sensors: the custom-designed ECG sensor, the temperature sensor, the skin humidity sensor and accelerometers placed on the human body or integrated with clothes and a network gateway to forward data to a remote medical server. The system includes custom-designed transmission protocol and remote web-based graphical user interface for remote real time data analysis. Experimental results for a group of humans who performed various activities (eg. working, running, etc.) showed maximum 5% absolute error compared to certified medical devices. The results are promising and indicate that developed wireless wearable monitoring system faces challenges of multi-sensor human health monitoring during performing daily activities and opens new opportunities in developing novel healthcare services.

The paper reports on the main assumptions and guidelines regarding construction of a novel type of parallel micro-robot with 3 degrees of freedom. Such micromanipulator is a hybrid construction, consisting of three arms connected together in parallel structure. The mechanical construction is a combination of rotational joints with bearings and flexible compliant joints so called: flexures. The whole construction measures several cubic centimeters and operates within c.a. 4 cubic centimeters workspace. In addition, the article relates to selected aspects of the control system, mathematical analysis of kinematics, basic simulations, specification of the range of movement of all actuators, and workspace of the moving platform. Modeling flexures using FE method will also be presented.

A study of the inverse kinematics for a five-degree-of-freedom (DOF) spatial parallel micromanipulator is presented here below. The objective of this paper is the introduction of a structural and geometrical model of a novel five-degree-of-freedom spatial parallel micromanipulator, analysis of the effective and useful workspace of the micromechanism, presentation of the obtained analytical solutions of the microrobot’s inverse kinematics tasks, and verification of its correctness using selected computer programs and computation environments. The mathematical model presented in this paper describes the behaviour of individual elements for the applied 2-DOF novel piezoelectric actuator, resulting from the position and orientation of the microrobot’s moving platform.

The paper presents a novel, versatile 3-RRPRR (Revolute-Revolute-Prismatic-Revolute-Revolute joints), fully-parallel manipulator with three translational degrees of freedom for pick-and-place and machining applications, characterising in comparatively high payload capacity, large workspace and high attainable accelerations. The construction of the manipulator is shown, its kinematics and dynamics is analysed and modelled. A trajectory generator and a controller are proposed, simulated and experimentally investigated. Finally, the conclusions andfuture works are presented.

Very often, constructors and designers of intelligent building and building automation systems have a choice: to create a compact system with a limited configuration and modifying the system’s behavior possibilities or provide a fully configurable solution at the expense of introducing a full SCADA system equipped with an additional knowledge database and inference system equipped with learning capabilities. In the presented work, we show that there is a third solution. Using a multilayer control system composed of programmable FPGAs, small PCs, and cloud computing resources, we can design and implement a fully configurable intelligent control system for the building’s heating. Our solution combines the compactness of the structure and the ease of installation and assembly.