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Durability of Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Review and Benchmarking Protocol

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Lack of durability is a key challenge hindering the broad scale adoption of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) in automation industries. This review provides a comprehensive overview of existing research on SPA durability, introduces a standardized durability benchmarking protocol to consolidate the testing of SPAs, and outlines promising directions for ...
Dickson Chiu Yu Wong, Yucheng Luo, Rob Bernardus Nicolaas Scharff   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Localized Muscle Fatigue Prediction and Detection Using Surface Electromyography: A Review Study

NTU Journal of Engineering and Technology
Detection of muscle fatigue is present in many fields, from the training of athletes and the aid in rehabilitation to the control of prosthetics. It can be considered ongoing research aiming to understand the human body and aid in protecting it. Fatigue
Zainab Mahmood Tariq, Mohammed Sabah Jarjees   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

3D Printing of Self‐Healing Polymers by Material Extrusion: A Process‐Centric Review of Setups, Parameters, and Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review highlights recent advances in material extrusion 3D printing of self‐healing polymers, focusing on the interplay between material chemistry, rheology, hardware customization, and process optimization. Filament‐ and ink‐based extrusion strategies, multimaterial architectures, and postprocessing approaches are discussed for applications in ...
Antonio Pavone, Gianni Stano, Gianluca Percoco   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic Design of Soft Actuators in Translational Medical Robotics for Human‐Centered Healthcare

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Soft robotics enables biocompatible, compliant medical devices, but clinical translation requires design‐driven engineering beyond materials. This perspective reviews implantable, surgical, and wearable systems by actuation mechanism, highlighting how optimized architectures and integration improve mechanical interfacing, adaptability, and durability ...
Ho Jun Jin, Jimin Kim, Inho Kim, Bong Hoon Kim   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Introducing PNEUMA: A Hybrid Soft Pneumatic Fabric Bidirectional Actuation Module for Wearable Robotics

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This study presents a soft pneumatic fabric bidirectional actuation module (PNEUMA) capable of generating high torque in both bending directions within a single integrated architecture. PNEUMA achieves up to 50 Nm with reduced inflation volume and a lightweight design.
Odysseas Simatos, Nikolaos Charalampous, Panagiotis Polygerinos   +2 more
wiley   +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

Metabolic and skeletal muscle dysfunctions correlate with fatigue behavior in an animal model of multiple sclerosis

Frontiers in Physiology
Multiple sclerosis associated fatigue (MS fatigue) is one of the most common and troubling symptoms experienced by people with MS, but the cause of MS fatigue remains unknown.
Kody M. Moore, Marcella Whetsell, Lei Wang, Ethan M. Meadows, Ethan M. Meadows, Amanda Stewart, Alan D. Mizener, Alan D. Mizener, Stuart A. Clayton, Lauren E. Rentz, Christa Lilly, John M. Hollander, John M. Hollander, Gangqing Hu, Gangqing Hu, Gangqing Hu, Emidio E. Pistilli, Emidio E. Pistilli, Emidio E. Pistilli, Edwin C.K. Wan, Edwin C.K. Wan   +20 more
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Time History Gaussian Process Regression for Modeling the Dynamics of Ankle Exoskeleton User Comfort

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Exoskeletons need to be comfortable, but the perception of comfort may change over time. This study investigated if short‐term time history directly influences comfort. No previous trials’ input features were predictive of comfort. Including the previous trial's comfort score marginally improved model accuracy compared to a model using only the current
Axl Maberry, Bo Cheng, Anne E. Martin
wiley   +1 more source

Physiological consequences of the work of breathing and of inspiratory muscle training [PDF]

, 2009
A reduced blood lactate concentration ([lac-]B) is commonly observed during whole-body exercise following inspiratory muscle training (IMT). However, whether the inspiratory muscles are, in part, the source of these reductions remains unknown ...
Brown, Peter Ian, Brown, P
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Engineering Approaches to Modify Immunomodulatory Functions of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSCs): Tissue Regeneration and Clinical Application

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) show promise for treating immune‐related disorders through immunomodulation and tissue regeneration. This review gives a brief overview of current clinical approval of MSC therapies. It also discussed how bioengineering, including genetic modification, biomaterial delivery, extracellular vesicles, and iPSC‐derived MSCs,
Sichen Yang, Kejia Li, Ning Wang, Zhen Li, Zhiyong Zhang, Rocky S. Tuan, Yangzi Jiang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source