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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, Muhammad A. Khalid, Manish Chauhan, Pietro Valdastri, James H. Chandler   +4 more
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Layered Monitoring of Ground Subsidence Based on Ultra-Weak FBG Sensing Technology: A Case Study in Gaoyang County, China

Micromachines
The primary objective of layered settlement monitoring of deep soil is to obtain settlement data for both the soil and superstructure, enabling appropriate measures to be taken to ensure the structure’s safety and stability.
Haigang Wang, Huili Gong, Jincai Zhang, Lin Zhu, Di Ning, Chaofan Zhou, Xingguang Yan   +6 more
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Cross‐Scale Hierarchical Targeted Delivery System Based on Small‐Scale Magnetic Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This article reviews a cross‐scale hierarchical targeted delivery system that integrates magnetic continuum robots and magnetic microrobots. By combining rapid long‐range navigation with precise microscale targeting, the system overcomes key limitations of single‐scale approaches.
Junjian Zhou, Zhiqiang Chen, Yuanbiao Ma, Zhiqiang Tang, Qianqian Wang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dual Temperature and Strain Measurement with the Combined Fluorescence Lifetime and Bragg Wavelength Shift Approach in Doped Optical Fiber [PDF]

We have constructed fiber-optic sensors to measure temperature and strain by combining the properties of fiber Bragg gratings with the fluorescent lifetimes of various doped fibers.
Wade, Scott A., Forsyth, David I., Sun, Tong, Chen, Xiaomei, Grattan, Kenneth T. V.   +4 more
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Functional Fibers in Soft Robotics: Advances in Material, Structural, and Systemic Tactics

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Fiber‐form robotic systems offer a scalable pathway toward embodied intelligence in soft robotics. This review surveys functional fibers as material, structural, and systemic elements, highlighting advances in responsive materials, architectural programing, and fabrication strategies.
Joonhee Won, Jaehyun Jang, Hyeonseo Kim, Inyoung Choi, Steve Park, Seongjun Park   +5 more
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A fiber Bragg grating direct current sensor with temperature compensation based on electromagnetic force

Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2015
A novel fiber Bragg grating direct current sensor with intrinsic temperature compensation is presented in this article. The operating principle of the sensor is based on the deflection of a cantilever beam due to the electromagnetic force between a ...
Yuan Yao, Ciming Zhou, Wenju Zhang, Qin Xue, Yutao Ling   +4 more
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In-Fiber Thermally Diffused Coupler and Fiber Bragg Grating Inscribed in Twin-Core Fiber for Sensitivity-Enhanced Vector Bending Sensing

Photonic Sensors, 2023
A vector bending fiber sensor based on core-by-core inscribed fiber Bragg gratings in a twin-core fiber has been proposed and experimentally demonstrated.
Lingzhi Meng, Hongye Wang, Qi Xia, Tingting Yuan, Xiaotong Zhang, Libo Yuan   +5 more
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Learning‐Based Soft Robotic Grasping: Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review analyzes learning‐based soft robotic grasping from a pipeline‐oriented perspective, encompassing soft gripper design, multimodal sensing, and learning‐based planning and control. It surveys key neural network architectures and benchmark datasets and identifies critical challenges such as sim‐to‐real transfer, generalization, and continual ...
Arnab Majumder, Jelizaveta Konstantinova, Graham Deacon, Kaspar Althoefer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Low‐Cost, Handheld Optical Stiffness Sensor for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A novel handheld stiffness sensor is presented for real‐time tissue stiffness characterization. By simultaneously sensing contact force and tissue deformation, the device enables accurate stiffness quantification without requiring precise manual control. This approach offers a promising solution for intraoperative tumor detection and minimally invasive
Qianyu Ma, Ruxiang Jiang, Kaspar Althoefer, Nicolas Herzig, Hareesh Godaba   +4 more
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Continuum Robots in Surgery: From Engineering Design to Clinical Practice

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
The hyper‐redundant nature of continuum robot structures enables near‐infinite degrees of freedom leading to immense potential for medical applications. This review provides a historical background of continuum robots and novel ideas shaping their progress to current structural design, sensing technology, modeling techniques, and control methods.
Griffin Smith, Kaitlyn Clancy, Siwen Xie, Xiaochen Li, Sarah Khalife, Benjamin van der Woerd, Onaizah Onaizah   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source