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Human-muscle-inspired single fibre actuator with reversible percolation

Nature Nanotechnology, 2022
Artificial muscles are indispensable components for next-generation robotics capable of mimicking sophisticated movements of living systems. However, an optimal combination of actuation parameters, including strain, stress, energy density and high ...
Seunghwa Ryu, Sang Ouk Kim
exaly   +2 more sources

Electrically controlled liquid crystal elastomer–based soft tubular actuator with multimodal actuation

Science Advances, 2019
An electrically-controlled soft tubular actuator is constructed for soft robotic applications. Soft tubular actuators can be widely found both in nature and in engineering applications.
Qiguang He, Zhijian Wang, Adriane Minori
exaly   +2 more sources

Multi-stimuli-responsive programmable biomimetic actuator

Nature Communications, 2019
Untethered small actuators have various applications in multiple fields. However, existing small-scale actuators are very limited in their intractability with their surroundings, respond to only a single type of stimulus and are unable to achieve ...
Yue Dong, Jie Wang, Peng Chen
exaly   +2 more sources

Leaf-inspired multiresponsive MXene-based actuator for programmable smart devices

Science Advances, 2019
An unprecedented MXene-based actuator was developed, which mimicked the sophisticated leaf structure and its functionality. Natural leaves, with elaborate architectures and functional components, harvest and convert solar energy into chemical fuels that ...
Guofa Cai, Jing-Hao Ciou, Yizhi Liu
exaly   +2 more sources

Kirigami skins make a simple soft actuator crawl

Science Robotics, 2018
Ahmad Rafsanjani, Bangyuan Liu, Shmuel M Rubinstein   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Hygrobot: A self-locomotive ratcheted actuator powered by environmental humidity

Science Robotics, 2018
Beomjune Shin, Jonghyun Ha, Minhee Lee
exaly   +2 more sources

Enhancement of synthetic jets by means of an integrated valve-less pump Part II. Numerical and experimental studies [PDF]

, 2005
The paper studies the performance of the new fluid jet actuator based on the novel principle of the generation of fluid jet, which has been presented in [Z. Travnicek, A.I. Fedorchenko, A.-B.
Tesar, V., Travniceka, Z., Wang, A.
core   +1 more source

In-air fast response and high speed jumping and rolling of a light-driven hydrogel actuator

Nature Communications, 2020
Stimuli-responsive hydrogel actuators have promising applications in various fields. However, the typical hydrogel actuation relies on the swelling and de-swelling process caused by osmotic-pressure changes, which is slow and normally requires the ...
Mingtong Li, Xin Wang, Bin Dong, M. Sitti   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Static Output Feedback Control of Switched Nonlinear Systems With Actuator Faults

IEEE transactions on fuzzy systems, 2020
This paper is focused on the static output feedback (SOF) control problem for a class of switched nonlinear systems with actuator faults. By means of the Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy model, the switched nonlinear plant is described by a family of switched fuzzy ...
Meng Zhang, P. Shi, Chao Shen, Zhengguang Wu   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Port-based modeling and optimal control for a new very versatile energy efficient actuator [PDF]

, 2009
In this paper, we analyze in depth the innovative very versatile and energy efficient (V2E2) actuator proposed in Stramigioli et al. (2008). The V2E2 actuator is intended to be used in all kind of robotics and powered prosthetic applications in which ...
Carloni, Raffaella, Gerelli, Oscar, Stramigioli, Stefano   +2 more
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