Novel Accordion-Inspired Foldable Pneumatic Actuators for Knee Assistive Devices [0.03%]
一种新型手风琴式可折叠气动执行器用于膝关节辅助器具
Jing Fang,Jianping Yuan,Mingming Wang et al.
Jing Fang et al.
Despite that various soft bending actuators have been presented in recent years, their widespread application in knee assistive devices is still hindered by their uncomfortable geometry, limited torque output, control complexity, and high c...
Designing Fiber-Reinforced Soft Actuators for Planar Curvilinear Shape Matching [0.03%]
设计用于平面曲面匹配的纤维增强软执行器
Gaurav Singh,Girish Krishnan
Gaurav Singh
Fiber-reinforced soft pneumatic actuators can generate a wide variety of deformation behavior, making them popular in the field of soft robotics. Designing an actuator to meet a specified deformed shape is an important step toward the desig...
Soft and Fast Hopping-Running Robot with Speed of Six Times Its Body Length Per Second [0.03%]
速度可达体长六倍每秒的软体高速跳跃奔跑机器人
Jianwen Zhao,Junming Zhang,David McCoul et al.
Jianwen Zhao et al.
Existing robots capable of hopping or running mostly rely on rigid actuators, but soft hopping or running robots based on muscle-like actuators have not yet been achieved. In this article, we report a tethered soft robot capable of hopping-...
Tongil Park,Keehoon Kim,Sang-Rok Oh et al.
Tongil Park et al.
There is a considerable demand to develop robots that can perform sophisticated tasks such as grabbing delicate materials, passing through narrow pathways, and acting as mediators between humans and robots. Soft robots can provide a solutio...
Closed-Loop Haptic Feedback Control Using a Self-Sensing Soft Pneumatic Actuator Skin [0.03%]
基于自感测软气动执行器皮肤的闭环触觉反馈控制
Harshal A Sonar,Aaron P Gerratt,Stéphanie P Lacour et al.
Harshal A Sonar et al.
In this article, we achieve a closed-loop control over haptic feedback, first time for an entirely soft platform. We prototyped a novel self-sensing soft pneumatic actuator (SPA) with soft strain sensors, called SPA-skin, which withstands l...
Yi Sun,Miao Li,Hui Feng et al.
Yi Sun et al.
Soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) have existed for many years as one of the mainstream actuators. Along with the rise of soft robotics, the development in SPA designs in recent years was especially rapid and diverse. Particularly with innovat...
Michal Soreni-Harari,Ryan St Pierre,Caroline McCue et al.
Michal Soreni-Harari et al.
Multimaterial mechanisms are seen throughout natural organisms across all length scales. The different materials in their bodies, from rigid, structural materials to soft, elastic materials, enable mobility in complex environments. As robot...
Donghoon Son,Hunter Gilbert,Metin Sitti
Donghoon Son
Wireless capsule endoscopes have revolutionized diagnostic procedures in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract by minimizing discomfort and trauma. Biopsy procedures, which are often necessary for a confirmed diagnosis of an illness, have been in...
Jianwei Sun,Guangsheng Song,Jinkui Chu et al.
Jianwei Sun et al.
Traditional robotic feet have received considerable attention for adaptive locomotion on complex terrain. As an alternative, tensegrity structures have the essential characteristics of deformability, adaptability to the environment, and imp...
A Deformable Interface for Human Touch Recognition Using Stretchable Carbon Nanotube Dielectric Elastomer Sensors and Deep Neural Networks [0.03%]
基于可拉伸碳纳米管介电弹性体传感器和深度神经网络的人类触摸识别可变形界面
Chris Larson,Josef Spjut,Ross Knepper et al.
Chris Larson et al.
This article presents a machine learning approach to map outputs from an embedded array of sensors distributed throughout a deformable body to continuous and discrete virtual states, and its application to interpret human touch in soft inte...