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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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Multimodal Locomotion in Insect‐Inspired Microrobots: A Review of Strategies for Aerial, Surface, Aquatic, and Interfacial Motion

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review identifies key design considerations for insect‐inspired microrobots capable of multimodal locomotion. To draw inspiration, biological and robotic strategies for moving in air, on water surfaces, and underwater are examined, along with approaches for crossing the air–water interface.
Mija Jovchevska, Kaushik Jayaram, Nicole Xu   +2 more
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Waveguide Photoactuators: Materials, Fabrication, and Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Waveguide photoactuators convert guided light into mechanical motion. Their tethered‐flexible design enables minimally invasive surgery and confined‐space robotics. This review aims to guide materials selection, device design, and system integration, accelerating the transition of waveguide photoactuators from laboratory prototypes to versatile ...
Minjie Xi, Hemin Pan, Yang Zong, Yongfeng Mei, Jizhai Cui   +4 more
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Active vibration control of a rotor-bearing-actuator system using robust eigenvalue placement method

Measurement + Control, 2020
In order to improve the vibration responses of rotor system, this paper presents an active vibration control technique for a rotor-bearing-actuator system with the use of robust eigenvalue placement method.
Tao Lai, Junfeng Liu
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Design and Modeling of a High‐Displacement, Skin‐Integrated Flexible Electromagnetic Actuator for Haptic Interfaces in Virtual Reality

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A flexible, skin‐integrated electromagnetic actuator is developed for wearable virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR) haptic systems. A tunable design model enables control over displacement and resonance frequency. The system is validated through a custom VR application with a 6 × 4 actuator array, demonstrating real‐time, spatially targeted tactile ...
Naji Tarabay, Alexandra Zhang Jiang, Ziteng Liu, Rachel Villamor, Derek Cha, Ananya Renuka Balakrishna, Tianshu Liu, Priyanshu Agarwal, Rainer Dömer, Camilo Velez   +9 more
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Smart Nanotechnologies for Multimodal Neuromodulation and Brain Interfacing

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Recent advances in smart nanotechnologies are expanding the toolbox for brain interfacing, from wireless neuromodulation and high‐resolution sensing to targeted delivery within the central nervous system. By combining responsive nanomaterials with bioinspired design, these platforms enable multimodal interactions with neurons and glia, while also ...
Tommaso Curiale, Marie Celine Lefevre, Alessio Carmignani, Maria Cristina Ceccarelli, Matteo Battaglini, Attilio Marino, Gianni Ciofani   +6 more
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Design and analysis of a flextensional piezoelectric actuator for incus-body driving type middle ear implant [PDF]

, 2017
In order to decrease the power consumption of current piezoelectric stack actuator for incus-body driving type middle ear implant (MEI), a new MEI’s piezoelectric actuator with a flextensional amplifier was proposed.
Jianhua Yang, Xinsheng Huang, Mengli Wang, Houguang Liu, Lei Zhou   +4 more
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Piezoelectric Layer Transfer Process for MEMS

Proceedings
Piezoelectric MEMS devices were fabricated on 200 mm Si wafers using both deposited and layer-transferred PZT films. In both cases, the PZT-based devices showed ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties at the level of current state-of-the-art devices ...
Gwenael Le Rhun, Franklin Pavageau, Timothée Rotrou, Christel Dieppedale, Laurent Mollard   +4 more
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Modeling and design of a pre-stressed piezoelectric stack actuator

AIP Advances, 2017
To provide a method for designing a pre-stressed PSA with high-performance, it is very meaningful to model the dynamic characteristics of the pre-stressed PSA accurately.
Shiping Jiang, Lei Cheng
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A Correlative SICM‐OPM Platform for Surface and Volumetric Imaging in Live Cells

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A multifunctional correlative imaging platform integrating Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy (SICM) with Oblique Plane Microscopy (OPM) enables simultaneous surface topography, mechanical mapping, and 3D volumetric fluorescence imaging in live cells.
Wenzhi Hong, Ziwei Zhang, Ao Li, Ting Sun, Yunzhao Wu, Devkee M. Vadukul, Dylan Jones, Bing Li, Fengjie Liu, Francesco A. Aprile, Yuri Korchev, Julia Gorelik, David Klenerman, Andrew Shevchuk   +13 more
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