Durability of Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Review and Benchmarking Protocol
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Lack of durability is a key challenge hindering the broad scale adoption of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) in automation industries. This review provides a comprehensive overview of existing research on SPA durability, introduces a standardized durability benchmarking protocol to consolidate the testing of SPAs, and outlines promising directions for ...
Dickson Chiu Yu Wong +2 more
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A self healable dielectric elastomer artificial muscle. [PDF]
Nat CommunMao J +8 more
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A Soft Robotic Fish With a Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Body and Negative Stiffness Spine
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This work introduces a bio‐mimetic soft robotic fish driven by fiber‐reinforced dielectric elastomer actuators integrated as its body. By prestretching this active skin against a flexible spine, a negative stiffness system is created, enabling large‐amplitude bending.
Markus Koenigsdorff +4 more
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Force-Balance Model and Stable Operating-Point Regulation of a Prestretched Repulsive Electromagnetic Elastomer Artificial Muscle. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel)Wang J, Cao S, Wang Z, Zhang H, Wang Y.
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Bioinspired polypyrrole based fibrillary artificial muscle with actuation and intrinsic sensing capabilities. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2022 Beregoi M +4 more
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Hybrid Continuum Robot Designs and Architectures for Healthcare Applications
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Hybrid continuum robots represent an emerging class of flexible manipulators that blend materials, structures, and actuation concepts from the established fields of soft and continuum robotics. This review introduces an accessible framework to distinguish key hybridization approaches, surveys current designs aimed at complex clinical applications, and ...
Burak Ozdemir +4 more
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Methodological development of a pneumatic artificial muscle-driven left ventricular simulator using interpretive structural modeling. [PDF]
PLoS OneBaturalp TB, Bozkurt S.
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Actuating compact wearable augmented reality devices by multifunctional artificial muscle. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2022 Kim D +16 more
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Miniaturized Magnetic Tip Design for Endoluminal Vine Robot Navigation
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.A magnetic tip mount is designed for a miniaturized 7 mm soft‐growing vine robot to enable wireless magnetic steering and onboard imaging, while preserving a 3 mm working channel. The internal–external ring magnets design balances magnetic attachment with low eversion pressure. Experiments demonstrate ±90° steering, 34 mm bending radius, and successful
Andrea Yanez Trujillo +4 more
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Applications of bio-feedback to muscle models
, 2011 An EMG-driven musculoskeletal model is implemented to estimate subject-specific musculoskeletal parameters such as the optimal physiological muscle length, the tendon slack length and the maximum isometric muscle force of flexor and extensor muscle ...
Mace, B.R., Colacino, F.M., Rustighi, E.
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