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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, Yucheng Luo, Rob Bernardus Nicolaas Scharff   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Phthalate-Free Plasticization of Electrostrictive P(VDF-TrFE-CTFE) for Enhanced Actuation. [PDF]

ACS Omega
Gallucci G, Hunt A.
europepmc   +1 more source

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, Simon Holzer, Stefania Konstantinidi, Yoan Civet, Yves Perriard   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Piezoelectric Thin-Film Actuator for Dynamic Tuning of Micro-Optical Cavities. [PDF]

Micromachines (Basel)
Tan D, Li P, Zhou X, Xiao Q, Wu C, Zhu Q, Lei M, Li T, Lu Q.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Robotic Control for Human–Robot Collaborative Assembly Based on Digital Human Model and Reinforcement Learning

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This work presents a robotic control method for human–robot collaborative assembly based on a biomechanics‐constrained digital human model. Reinforcement learning is used to generate physiologically plausible human motion trajectories, which are integrated into a virtual environment for robot control learning.
Bitao Yao, Hongzhou Ai, Wenjun Xu, Zude Zhou, Lihui Wang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Elastic Fiber Programming for Simplified Pneumatic Control in Soft Robots. [PDF]

Adv Sci (Weinh)
Yang X, Jin T, Tian S, Wang J, Yi S, Wang Y, Li L, Lin Y.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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, Muhammad A. Khalid, Manish Chauhan, Pietro Valdastri, James H. Chandler   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Frequency-selective actuation of liquid crystalline elastomer actuators with radio-frequency. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Song Y, Li Z, Zadan M, Wang J, Kumar S, Majidi C.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source