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Soft Pneumatic Actuator skin with embedded sensors [PDF]

open access: yes2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2014
Soft Pneumatic Actuator skin (SPA-skin) is a novel concept of ultra-thin (< 1 mm) sensor embedded actuators with distributed actuation points that could cover soft bodies. This highly customizable and flexible SPA-skin is ideal for providing proprioceptive sensing by covering pre-existing structures and robots bodies.
Chansu Suh   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Soft Pneumatic Bending Actuator with Integrated Carbon Nanotube Displacement Sensor

open access: yesRobotics, 2016
The excellent compliance and large range of motion of soft actuators controlled by fluid pressure has lead to strong interest in applying devices of this type for biomimetic and human-robot interaction applications. However, in contrast to soft actuators
Tim Giffney   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Design, Topology Optimization, and Additive Manufacturing of a Pneumatically Actuated Lightweight Robot

open access: yesActuators, 2023
Soft robotics research has rapidly incorporated Additive Manufacturing (AM) into its standard prototyping repertoire. While numerous publications have highlighted the suitability of AM for producing soft pneumatic actuators, fluidic components, and ...
Gabriel Dämmer   +3 more
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Fabrication of Multi-Material Pneumatic Actuators and Microactuators Using Stereolithography

open access: yesMicromachines, 2023
Pneumatic actuators are of great interest for device miniaturization, microactuators, soft robots, biomedical engineering, and complex control systems.
Qingchuan Song   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

3D Shrinking for Rapid Fabrication of Origami-Inspired Semi-Soft Pneumatic Actuators

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2020
Soft actuators are an essential component of soft robots. They are also well suited for human-friendly robots due to their intrinsic safety. The advantages of origami structures have motivated the development of origami-inspired semi-soft actuators.
Abdelrahman Zaghloul, Gary M. Bone
doaj   +1 more source

Self-excited valve using a flat ring tube: Application to robotics

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022
Complex and bulky driving systems are among the main issues for soft robots driven by pneumatic actuators. Self-excited oscillation is a promising approach for dealing with this problem: oscillatory actuation is generated from non-oscillatory input ...
Hiroyuki Nabae, Eigo Kitamura
doaj   +1 more source

Earthworm‐Inspired Multi‐Material, Adaptive Strain‐Limiting, Hybrid Actuators for Soft Robots

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, 2023
This research presents a new class of versatile multi‐material hybrid actuators (MASH actuators), powered by pneumatics and electrostatic adhesion (EA)‐based adaptive strain‐limiting layers.
Quan Xiong   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development and Integration of Carbon–Polydimethylsiloxane Sensors for Motion Sensing in Soft Pneumatic Actuators

open access: yesActuators
Drawing inspiration from the intricate soft structures found in nature, soft actuators possess the ability to incrementally execute complex tasks and adapt to dynamic and interactive environments.
Ke Ma   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Modular Soft Gripper with Combined Pneu-Net Actuators

open access: yesActuators, 2023
Soft Pneumatic-Network (Pneu-Net) Actuators (SPAs) have been used extensively in making soft grippers, due to their simple driving forms and large bending deformation.
Xinjie Zhang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Position control of a soft pneumatic actuator based on the pressure parameter feedback model (PPFM) [PDF]

open access: yesMechanical Sciences
Soft pneumatic actuators have been one of the cores of soft robotics research and play a key role in driving the development of soft robots. Due to its high degree of internal nonlinearity and unpredictable deformation caused by environmental influences,
Y. Liu   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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