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Error-State Model Predictive Path Integral Control of Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots using Cosserat Rod Dynamics with Strain Parametrization. [PDF]

IEEE Robot Autom Lett
Arefinia E, Feizi N, Pedrosa FC, Patel RV, Jayender J.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

High Center‐of‐Mass, Multi‐Legged Soft Robots Powered by Geometrically Encoded Liquid Crystal Elastomer Arc Appendages

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Inspired by the octopus and the golden wheel spider, soft robots with liquid crystal elastomer arc fibers as appendages are fabricated to transcend surface constraints through an elevated center of mass and minimal contact footprints. By leveraging curvature‐encoded deformation‐recovery cycles, these robots exhibit contractile, torsional, and flexural ...
Jong Bin Kim, Antonio Proctor Martinez, Yaoye Hong, Ziyun Zhang, Kun‐Yu Wang, Shu Yang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design, manufacturing, and testing of a novel omnidirectional soft sleeve actuator. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Abboodi M, Doumit M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Nonlocal Metaspire: A Scalable Elastic Material Platform With Decoupled Mechanical Modes

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Nonlocal Metaspire introduces sequential rotation to realize wider scalability in implementing complex nonlocal couplings in elastic metamaterials while suppressing unintended mode coupling. Numerical results clarify the underlying wave motions, demonstrate mode‐decoupled roton and maxon formation, and support a straightforward extension to higher ...
Seung Han Kim, Myung Hwan Bae, Ye Jeong Shin, Joo Hwan Oh   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Programmable vector-responsive magnetorheological fibers for smart textiles. [PDF]

Matter
Guo R, Xu X, Chen J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Multilayered Digital Microfluidic Chip for Cell‐Based Assays

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
A multilayered digital microfluidic (mDMF) chip architecture is introduced to improve throughput and robustness in cell‐based assays. By multilayering electrode components and dielectric layers on glass, this design significantly reduces actuation voltage, maintains reliability, and enables expansion of the operational area with minimum current leakage.
Mert Ozden, Oksana K. Savchak, Burcu Gumuscu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hierarchical laser-programmed soft actuators for designing bionic robots with freeform morphing shapes. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Guo Y, Han M, Yang W, He M, Duan H, Ding X, Luo S.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From the Discovery of the Giant Magnetocaloric Effect to the Development of High‐Power‐Density Systems

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
The article overviews past and current efforts on caloric materials and systems, highlighting the contributions of Ames National Laboratory to the field. Solid‐state caloric heat pumping is an innovative method that can be implemented in a wide range of cooling and heating applications.
Agata Czernuszewicz, Yaroslav Mudryk, Jun Cui, Lucas Griffith, Duane D. Johnson, Julie Slaughter   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Machine learning-driven design of engineered cilia enables hybrid operations in acoustic microrobots. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Ling Y, Lu Y, Rich J, Liu M, Xu X, Naquin T, Chen Y, Li S, Zhong R, Yang K, Zhao S, Wu Q, Jin K, Huang TJ.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Two‐Way Shape Memory Polymer Composite Gripper for Adaptive Robotic Applications

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
A two‐way shape memory polymer (SMP) composite is developed with intrinsic shape‐changing capability driven solely by temperature, eliminating external actuation loads. Embedding the SMP in a low‐stiffness elastomeric matrix enabled reversible transformations during heating and cooling cycles.
Aamna Hameed, Kamran Ahmed Khan
wiley   +1 more source