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Underwater Crawling Robot With Hydraulic Soft Actuators
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 Benthic operation plays a vital role in underwater applications, where crawling robots have advantages compared with turbine-based underwater vehicles, in locomotion accuracy, actuation efficiency, current resistance, and in carrying more payloads.
Qinlin Tan +12 more
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Development of Hydraulic Hose-Less Actuation System
, 2020 The performance of traditional hydraulic multi-DOF robots is limited by the hydraulic hoses across the joints or connecting hydraulic actuator and control valve which can cause can cause the complex system configuration and generate the non-linear ...
CHUNG, WAN KYUN, NAM, SEOK HO
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.To address challenges in high‐throughput intestinal sampling with sealed containment and target drug delivery, we developed a dual‐functional ingestible passive capsule with a dual‐triggered control system based on pH‐response and mechanical actuation.
Libing Huang +9 more
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Sensors, 2010 We have developed a hydraulic displacement amplification mechanism (HDAM) and studied its dynamic response when combined with a piezoelectric actuator.
Xavier Arouette +4 more
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Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
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A New Type of Hydraulic Muscle
Actuators, 2016 This paper presents the invention and development of a new fundamental type of hydraulic actuator, aimed at delivering better actuation efficiency. This actuator is a flexible tube, composed of two different materials, which deflects while applying inner
Nitai Drimer +2 more
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Liquid Crystalline Elastomers in Soft Robotics: Assessing Promise and Limitations
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are programmable soft materials that undergo large, anisotropic deformation in response to external stimuli. Their molecular alignment encodes directional actuation in a monolithic structure, making them long‐standing candidates for soft robotic systems.
Justin M. Speregen, Timothy J. White
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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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Untethered Fluidic Engine for High‐Force Soft Wearable Robots
Advanced Intelligent SystemsFluid‐driven artificial muscles exhibit a behavior similar to biological muscles which makes them attractive as soft actuators for wearable assistive robots.
Antonio Di Lallo +5 more
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Artificial muscle driven soft hydraulic robot: electromechanical actuation and simplified modeling
, 2018 Soft pneumatic actuators possess attributes of large deformation, high driving force and light weight in the application of soft robots and smart devices.
Yang, X. +6 more
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