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Stiffness-Tunable Soft Gripper with Soft-Rigid Hybrid Actuation for Versatile Manipulations

Soft Robotics, 2022
Highly flexible and environmentally adaptive soft robots have received considerable attention. There remains a demand for soft robots to realize the stiffness modulation and variable workspace for robust and versatile manipulations. This article presents
Long Li   +6 more
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A Liquid Gripper Based on Phase Transitional Metallic Ferrofluid

Advanced Functional Materials, 2021
Magnetic fields enable dexterous, precise, and real‐time control of ferromagnetic materials. However, most materials, including glasses, organics, and metals, are nonmagnetic and often do not respond to a magnetic field.
Hongzhang Wang, Sen Chen, li haowei
exaly   +2 more sources

Poly(ionic liquid) hydrogel-based anti-freezing ionic skin for a soft robotic gripper

, 2020
Capable of converting stimuli into electrical signals, hydrogel-based ionic devices are of great significance in soft robots, wearable devices, and artificial sensors.
Ziyang Liu   +6 more
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Flexible self-powered multifunctional sensor for stiffness-tunable soft robotic gripper by multimaterial 3D printing

, 2021
Proprioceptive sensation via embedded flexible sensors is essential for soft robotic grippers to realize safe and dexterous grasping. We demonstrate a self-powered, flexible multifunctional sensor by combining a polyvinylidene difluoride film with a ...
Mengying Xie   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Multimode Grasping Soft Gripper Achieved by Layer Jamming Structure and Tendon-Driven Mechanism

Soft Robotics, 2021
Robotic grasping has become increasingly important in many application areas such as industrial manufacturing and logistics. Because of the diversity and uncertainty of objects and environments, common grippers with one single grasping mode face ...
Bin Fang   +8 more
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Robust design of a robot gripper mechanism using new hybrid grasshopper optimization algorithm

Expert Syst. J. Knowl. Eng., 2021
Structural design and optimization are important topics for the control and design of industrial robots. The motivation behind this research is to design a robot gripper mechanism.
B. Yildiz   +4 more
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A soft gripper with variable stiffness inspired by pangolin scales, toothed pneumatic actuator and autonomous controller

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 2020
Aiming at combining compliant covering and rigid lifting to the object grasping, this paper presents the design principle of a variable stiffness soft gripper and carries out its structural design, gripper fabrication and controller development.
Binbin Lian, Yimin Song
exaly   +2 more sources

A Two-Finger Soft-Robotic Gripper With Enveloping and Pinching Grasping Modes

IEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics, 2021
This article presents a two-finger soft-robotic gripper with enveloping grasping (EG) and pinching grasping (PG) modes. The proposed soft-robotic gripper is based on a two-finger design that combines two dual-module pneumatic actuators with a variable ...
Shoufeng Liu   +5 more
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A dual-mode soft gripper for food packaging

Robotics Auton. Syst., 2020
Robotics and automation in the food industry is not as widely applied as in other industries, such as automotive and electrical industries, due to the large variations in the shape and properties of food materials and the frequent alterations of food ...
Zhongkui Wang, Keung Or, S. Hirai
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A Mechanically Intelligent and Passive Gripper for Aerial Perching and Grasping

IEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics, 2022
Perching onto an object (e.g., tree branches) has recently been leveraged for addressing the limited flight time for flying robots. Successful perching needs a mechanical mechanism to damp out the impact and robustly grasp the object.
HaoTse Hsiao   +3 more
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