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Design and Modeling of a High‐Displacement, Skin‐Integrated Flexible Electromagnetic Actuator for Haptic Interfaces in Virtual Reality

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A flexible, skin‐integrated electromagnetic actuator is developed for wearable virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR) haptic systems. A tunable design model enables control over displacement and resonance frequency. The system is validated through a custom VR application with a 6 × 4 actuator array, demonstrating real‐time, spatially targeted tactile ...
Naji Tarabay, Alexandra Zhang Jiang, Ziteng Liu, Rachel Villamor, Derek Cha, Ananya Renuka Balakrishna, Tianshu Liu, Priyanshu Agarwal, Rainer Dömer, Camilo Velez   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Flexible physical sensors based on membranes: from design to application

International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing
The flexible physical sensors have the advantage of pliability and extensibility and can be easily twisted or curved. The development of flexibility from rigidity has significantly increased the application situations for sensors, especially in ...
Liwei Lin, Changqing Wu, Youfeng Cui, Minghao Pan, Ning Fang, Man Zhou, Yuzhe Zhang, Wang Zhang, Zhongyu Li, Ziyao Zhou, Yuanzhe Piao, Sun-Ha Paek   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Preload-Free Conformal Integration of Tactile Sensors on the Fingertip’s Curved Surface

Biomimetics
Humans could sensitively perceive and identify objects through dense mechanoreceptors distributed on the skin of curved fingertips. Inspired by this biological structure, this study presents a general conformal integration method for flexible tactile ...
Lei Liu, Peng Ran, Yongyao Li, Tian Tang, Yun Hu, Jian Xiao, Daijian Luo, Lu Dai, Yufei Liu, Jiahu Yuan, Dapeng Wei   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Bioinspired, Multimodal Soft Tactile Skin with Task-Adaptive Perception for Intelligent Robotic Manipulation. [PDF]

Adv Sci (Weinh)
Perception in robotic manipulation improves through the cooperative and complementary operation of biologically inspired multimodal tactile sensors. Receptor‐specific contribution analysis identifies which sensing modalities are required for specific tactile tasks.
Lee YJ, Kang H, Woo JY, Kim D, Han CS.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Intelligent Maintenance Review for Robots: Multimodal Information, Deep Diagnosis and Embodied Artificial Intelligence

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review maps the methods to monitor robots’ health by fusing vibration, sound, control signals, vision, force, and oil information with artificial intelligence. It identifies deep learning, transfer learning, digital twins, and physics‐informed models as key methodological pathways enabling earlier diagnosis, safer human–robot collaboration, and ...
Yuting Qiao, Hongbo Wang, Naipeng Li, Shuo Wang, Yaguo Lei, Tonghai Wu, Junyi Cao   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A bio-inspired proximity-tactile sensor array with beyond-extreme detection depth for embodied intelligence

International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing
Flexible proximity-tactile sensors have attracted significant attention for enhancing robotic perception. Among them, capacitive flexible proximity–tactile dual-mode sensor arrays are rapidly becoming a key solution.
Xiaohua Wu, Yingxi Xie, Zeji Wu, Yinzhe Feng, Yuxuan Liang, Longsheng Lu, Wei Yuan, Shu Yang, Di Xing, Yilin Zhong, Renpeng Yang, Jie Liu   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Micro-Vibration-Based Slip Detection in Tactile Force Sensors

, 2014
Tactile sensing provides critical information, such as force, texture, shape or temperature, in manipulation tasks. In particular, tactile sensors traditionally used in robotics are emphasized in contact force determination for grasping control and ...
Ismael Payo, Andres Vazquez, Andres S. Vazquez, Jonathan Becedas, Raul Fernandez   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Numerical Investigation of Halbach-Array-Based Flexible Magnetic Sensors for Wide-Range Deformation Detection

Sensors
Flexible magnetic tactile sensors hold great promise for wearable electronics and intelligent robotics but often suffer from limited strain range and complex magnetic field variations due to rigid-soft coupling between the Hall sensor and magnetic layer.
Yina Han, Shuaiqi Zhang, Chenglin Wen, Jie Han, Wenbin Kang, Zhiqiang Zheng   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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