Recurrent Braiding of Thin McKibben Muscles to Overcome Their Limitation of Contraction [0.03%]
用于克服麦克宾肌肉收缩限制的薄型麦克宾肌肉的回转编织法
Shoichiro Koizumi,Shunichi Kurumaya,Hiroyuki Nabae et al.
Shoichiro Koizumi et al.
This study presents a novel idea of rebraiding thin McKibben muscles to overcome their limitation of contraction. The thin McKibben muscles, presented in the authors' previous work, have the flexibility that allows them to be braided. Accor...
Liangliang Wang,Zheng Wang
Liangliang Wang
Mechanoreception, the ability of robots to detect mechanical stimuli from the internal and external environments, contributes significantly to improving safety and task performance during the operation of robots in unstructured environments...
Bioinspired Three-Dimensional-Printed Helical Soft Pneumatic Actuators and Their Characterization [0.03%]
受生物启发的螺旋式软质气动执行器的三维打印及表征
Weiping Hu,Gursel Alici
Weiping Hu
Soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) are widely studied and applied in the field of soft robotics. To expand their applications, the SPAs should be purpose-built to generate application-specific complex motions with multiple degrees of freedom. ...
Leveraging Viscous Peeling to Create and Activate Soft Actuators and Microfluidic Devices [0.03%]
利用粘性剥离制备和激活软驱动器和微流体设备
Lior Salem,Benny Gamus,Yizhar Or et al.
Lior Salem et al.
The research fields of microfluidics and soft robotics both involve complex small-scale internal channel networks, embedded within a solid structure. This study examines leveraging viscous peeling as a mechanism to create and activate soft ...
Alexander Hasse,Kristian Mauser
Alexander Hasse
This article deals with a novel active bending soft body that uses metamaterials and combines soft behavior, integrated actuation, low complexity, and a high density of producible forces and moments. The presented concept consists of a tube...
Hing-Choi Fu,Justin D L Ho,Kit-Hang Lee et al.
Hing-Choi Fu et al.
Muscular hydrostats have long been a source of inspiration for soft robotic designs. With their inherent compliance, they excel in unpredictable environments and can gently manipulate objects with ease. However, their performance lacks wher...
Integration, Sensing, and Control of a Modular Soft-Rigid Pneumatic Lower Limb Exoskeleton [0.03%]
模块化软-硬气动下肢外骨骼的集成、感知与控制
Jiangbei Wang,Yanqiong Fei,Weidong Chen
Jiangbei Wang
This article presents the system integration, sensing, and control of a novel modular soft-rigid pneumatic exoskeleton for lower limb. The proposed exoskeleton consists of three soft hinges (to drive the hip, knee, and ankle joints) and fou...
Passive Morphological Adaptation for Obstacle Avoidance in a Self-Growing Robot Produced by Additive Manufacturing [0.03%]
用于避障的被动形态学适应研究：基于增量制造技术的自生长机器人
Ali Sadeghi,Emanuela Del Dottore,Alessio Mondini et al.
Ali Sadeghi et al.
This article presents strategies for the passive path and morphological adaptation of a plant-inspired growing robot that can build its own body by an additive manufacturing process. By exploiting the soft state of the thermoplastic materia...
Tao Ren,Yingtian Li,Menghong Xu et al.
Tao Ren et al.
Soft actuators and robotics have been widely researched in recent years mainly due to their compliance to environments and safe interaction with humans. However, the need of tether and low energy efficiency of such actuators/robots has limi...
Pre-Programmed Tri-Layer Electro-Thermal Actuators Composed of Shape Memory Polymer and Carbon Nanotubes [0.03%]
预编程三明治结构的电热执行器：形状记忆聚合物和碳纳米管的复合材料
Ela Sachyani Keneth,Giulia Scalet,Michael Layani et al.
Ela Sachyani Keneth et al.
Due to their high deformability, lightness, and safe interaction with the surrounding environment, flexible actuators are key ingredients in soft robotics technologies. Among these, electro-thermal actuators (ETAs), based on carbon nanotube...