Diatom‐Inspired 1D Immobile Robots Capable of 2D Collective Mobility
This study presents a diatom‐inspired robotic system that explores group coordination through limited physical interactions. The researchers tune groups of Barbots, simple robotic agents that possess neither individual mobility nor explicit communication capabilities, to achieve complex and adaptive collaboration based on environmental light.
Tianyi Hu +4 more
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A solution algorithm for calculating the preload of T-type clamp bolts based on multiphysics coupling. [PDF]
Yang Y +5 more
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A unified, reusable modeling pipeline enables task‐driven design of soft robots across actuator families and task scenarios. High‐fidelity simulations are compressed into compact pseudo‐rigid‐body joint surrogates, while a design‐conditioned meta‐model generates new surrogates from geometry parameters without rerunning finite element method.
Yao Yao, David Howard, Perla Maiolino
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Current Switching of Topological Spin Chirality in the van der Waals Antiferromagnet Co<sub>1/3</sub>TaS<sub>2</sub>. [PDF]
Zhang KX, Lee S, Cho W, Park JG.
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Speckle Skin‐Based Multimodal Tactile Perception for Fine Robotic Manipulation
SpeckleTac, a miniature vision‐based tactile sensor, utilizes a speckle‐pattern skin and optical flow‐based scalable virtual marker tracking. Combined with advanced algorithms, it achieves high‐resolution 3D surface reconstruction, precise contact perception, and stable grasping capabilities.
Jiayuan Zhang +6 more
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An open-source BLDC motor test bed utilizing ESC telemetry for cost-effective educational laboratories. [PDF]
Kurniawan UTY, Faridah, Sunarno.
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Complex dynamics, often avoided in electromechanical design, can enhance soft robotics. We develop durable magnetic soft actuators operating in tunable dynamic regimes, enabling random number generation, stochastic computing, and time‐series prediction.
Eduardo Sergio Oliveros‐Mata +14 more
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Robust speed control of permanent magnet synchronous motors using model predictive and sliding mode strategies. [PDF]
Meawad M +3 more
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A Two‐Stage Characterization Pipeline and Open‐Source Framework for Reproducible Tactile Sensing
The same soft tactile sensor returns different numbers when embodied in different robots. This is an Embodiment Gap that no shared framework currently captures transparently. A two‐stage characterization pipeline, paired with a FAIR open‐source digital datasheet, decouples intrinsic sensor behavior from embodiment effects and condenses cross‐laboratory
Matteo Lo Preti +6 more
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Gravity compensation for leachate grid cleaning robots in waste-to-energy plants: A modeling and simulation study. [PDF]
Cao A, Wang C, Li W, Ma H.
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