Javier Tapia,Espen Knoop,Mojmir Mutný et al.
Javier Tapia et al.
Soft robots have applications in safe human-robot interactions, manipulation of fragile objects, and locomotion in challenging and unstructured environments. In this article, we present a computational method for augmenting soft robots with...
Single-Input Control of Multiple Fluid-Driven Elastic Actuators via Interaction Between Bistability and Viscosity [0.03%]
黏性和双稳态相互作用控制多个流体驱动弹性执行器
Eran Ben-Haim,Lior Salem,Yizhar Or et al.
Eran Ben-Haim et al.
A leading concept in soft robotics actuation, as well as in microfluidics applications such as valves in lab-on-a-chip devices, is applying pressurized flow in cavities embedded within elastic bodies. Generating complex deformation patterns...
A Machine-Learning-Based Approach to Solve Both Contact Location and Force in Soft Material Tactile Sensors [0.03%]
基于机器学习的软材料触觉传感器接触位置和力的同时求解方法
Luca Massari,Emiliano Schena,Carlo Massaroni et al.
Luca Massari et al.
This study addresses a design and calibration methodology based on numerical finite element method (FEM) modeling for the development of a soft tactile sensor able to simultaneously solve the magnitude and the application location of a norm...
Tim Helps,Majid Taghavi,Sihan Wang et al.
Tim Helps et al.
Variable-stiffness artificial muscles are important in many applications including running and hopping robots, human-robot interaction, and active suspension systems. Previously used technologies include pneumatic muscles, layer and granula...
Body Wave Generation for Anguilliform Locomotion Using a Fiber-Reinforced Soft Fluidic Elastomer Actuator Array Toward the Development of the Eel-Inspired Underwater Soft Robot [0.03%]
基于软流体弹性执行器阵列产生蛇形游动波面向仿鳗鲡软机器人的本体连续变形研究
Hui Feng,Yi Sun,Peter A Todd et al.
Hui Feng et al.
In the field of marine biology-inspired robotics, anguilliform locomotion, as one of the most common underwater propulsion types, has been widely studied and implemented in many robot prototypes. Most of these robots consisted of rigid part...
Davide Zappetti,Seung Hee Jeong,Jun Shintake et al.
Davide Zappetti et al.
Soft robots leverage deformable bodies to achieve different types of locomotion, improve transportability, and safely navigate cluttered environments. In this context, variable-stiffness structures provide soft robots with additional proper...
Yang Yang,Yazhan Zhang,Zicheng Kan et al.
Yang Yang et al.
This article describes a novel design of bioinspired soft robotic fingers based upon hybrid jamming principle-integrated layer jamming and particle jamming. The finger combines a fiber-reinforced soft pneumatic actuator with a hybrid jammin...
Shape Memory Alloy-Based Soft Finger with Changeable Bending Length Using Targeted Variable Stiffness [0.03%]
一种可变弯曲长度的形状记忆合金软指机构
Wei Wang,Chak Yuk Yu,Pablo Antonio Abrego Serrano et al.
Wei Wang et al.
This work described a bioinspired soft robotic finger with variable bending length to conform objects with different sizes by means of selectively varying the structural stiffness of its segments. The basic design is a shape memory alloy-ba...
Jianglong Guo,Chaoqun Xiang,Andrew Conn et al.
Jianglong Guo et al.
Human skins are active, smart, and stretchable. Artificial skins that can replicate these properties are promising materials and technologies that will enable lightweight, cost-effective, portable, and deployable soft devices and robots. We...
Seong Jun Park,Uikyum Kim,Cheol Hoon Park
Seong Jun Park
Fabric muscle is important for wearable robots that are soft, compliant, and silent with high contractility and high force. This study presents a novel shape memory alloy (SMA) spring-based fabric muscle (SFM). The SFM is manufactured by bu...