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Surface-based manipulation with modular foldable robots [PDF]
npj RoboticsIntelligence lies not only in the brain (decision-making processes) but in the body (physical morphology). The morphology of robots can significantly influence how they interact with the physical world, crucial for manipulating objects in real-life ...
Ziqiao Wang +3 more
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CMOS‐Inspired Complementary Fluidic Circuits for Soft Robots
Advanced Science, 2021 The latest efforts in digital fluidic circuits’ research aim at being electronics‐free, light‐weight, and compliant controllers for soft robots; however, challenges arise to adjust the fluidic circuit's digital logic operations.
Sukho Song, Sagar Joshi, Jamie Paik
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Flexure Variable Stiffness Actuators
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022 Series elastic actuators (SEAs) and variable elastic actuators (VSAs) provide shock resistance, energy storage, and stable force control. However, they usually require extra springs, mechanical parts, and transmissions, increasing size, weight, number of
Frederic H. Giraud +2 more
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Soft Touch using Soft Pneumatic Actuator–Skin as a Wearable Haptic Feedback Device
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021 Understanding the external environment depends heavily on vision, audition, and touch. Like vision and audition, the human sense of touch is complex.
Harshal Arun Sonar +2 more
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022 Modular robots hold promise of adaptability, robustness, and versatility. Synchronization of modules is critical; if a module is asynchronous, not only will the robot fail to perform tasks properly, but its behavior may be self‐destructive through self ...
Kevin Holdcroft +4 more
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Multi-cycle reconfigurable THz extraordinary optical transmission using chalcogenide metamaterials
Opto-Electronic Science, 2022 Metamaterials composed of metallic antennae arrays are used as they possess extraordinary optical transmission (EOT) in the terahertz (THz) region, whereby a giant forward light propagation can be created using constructive interference of tunneling ...
Tun Cao +12 more
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A New Scheme to Implement the Reconfigurable Optical Logic Gate in Millimeter Wave Over Fiber System
IEEE Access, 2023 In this work, we employ two Mach-Zehnder modulators (MZM) to achieve a novel six kinds of reconfigurable optical logic gate in millimeter wave over fiber, in which one MZM is used to generate millimeter wave (mm-wave) signal and the other is used to ...
Shihao Hui +5 more
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Hinges for origami-inspired structures by multimaterial additive manufacturing
Materials & Design, 2020 Recent studies demonstrate novel metamaterials featuring unique properties by combining origami-inspired designs with additive manufacturing. In particular, the use of flexural hinges endows distinct advantages towards miniaturization and fabrication ...
Marius A. Wagner +4 more
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A Scalable Unsegmented Multiport Memory for FPGA-Based Systems
International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing, 2015 On-chip multiport memory cores are crucial primitives for many modern high-performance reconfigurable architectures and multicore systems. Previous approaches for scaling memory cores come at the cost of operating frequency, communication overhead, and ...
Kevin R. Townsend +3 more
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Scientific Reports, 2017 Wearable soft robotic systems are enabling safer human-robot interaction and are proving to be instrumental for biomedical rehabilitation. In this manuscript, we propose a novel, modular, wearable robotic device for human (lumbar) spine assistance that ...
Gunjan Agarwal +3 more
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