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A Vision-based Scheme for Kinematic Model Construction of Re-configurable Modular Robots

, 2017
Re-configurable modular robotic (RMR) systems are advantageous for their reconfigurability and versatility. A new modular robot can be built for a specific task by using modules as building blocks.
Guan, Yisheng, Lin, Kewei, Rojas, Juan
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3D‐Printed Serial Snap‐Through Architectures for Programmable Mechanical Response

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
A serial snap‐through architecture is realized using compact 3D‐printed von Mises truss units arranged in a staged cascade. Their geometry and boundary conditions program multistage mechanical responses with plateaux and re‐hardening regimes. An inverted‐compliance model predicts these behaviors and enables analytical design of programmable force ...
Filipe A. Santos
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Modelling and Control of a Reconfigurable Robot for Achieving Reconfiguration and Locomotion with Different Shapes

Sensors, 2021
Area coverage is a crucial factor for a robot intended for applications such as floor cleaning, disinfection, and inspection. Robots with fixed shapes could not realize an adequate level of area coverage performance.
S. M. Bhagya P. Samarakoon, M. A. Viraj J. Muthugala, Raihan E. Abdulkader, Soh Wei Si, Thein T. Tun, Mohan Rajesh Elara   +5 more
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Micropatterned Biphasic Printed Electrodes for High‐Fidelity on‐Skin Bioelectronics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Micropatterned biphasic printed electrodes achieve unprecedented skin conformity and low impedance by combining liquid‐metal droplets with microstructured 3D lattices. This scalable approach enables high‐fidelity detection of ECG, EMG, and EEG signals, including alpha rhythms from the forehead, with long‐term comfort and stability.
Manuel Reis Carneiro, Telmo Lopes, André F. Silva, Carmel Majidi, Mahmoud Tavakoli   +4 more
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Data‐Driven Kinematic Modeling of Physical Origami Robots

Advanced Intelligent Systems
Origami‐inspired structures facilitate the design of compliant and compact robots. However, physical origami robots possess inherent material compliance and mechanical imperfections, presenting challenges in modeling and redundant actuation for accurate ...
Mustafa Mete, Alexander Schüßler, Yves Martin des Taillades, Bruno Trivelli, Jamie Paik   +4 more
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Polymorphic Ring-Shaped Molecular Clusters Made of Shape-Variable Building Blocks

Nanomaterials, 2015
Self-assembling molecular building blocks able to dynamically change their shapes, is a concept that would offer a route to reconfigurable systems. Although simulation studies predict novel properties useful for applications in diverse fields, such kinds
Keitel Cervantes-Salguero, Shogo Hamada, Shin-ichiro M. Nomura, Satoshi Murata   +3 more
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Adaptive Floor Cleaning Strategy by Human Density Surveillance Mapping with a Reconfigurable Multi-Purpose Service Robot

Sensors, 2021
Professional cleaning and safe social distance monitoring are often considered as demanding, time-consuming, repetitive, and labor-intensive tasks with the risk of getting exposed to the virus.
Vinu Sivanantham, Anh Vu Le, Yuyao Shi, Mohan Rajesh Elara, Bing J. Sheu   +4 more
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A Proposal for a Multi-Drive Heterogeneous Modular Pipe- Inspection Micro-Robot

, 2008
This paper presents the architecture used to develop a micro-robot for narrow pipes inspection. Both the electromechanical design and the control scheme will be described. In pipe environments it is very useful to have a method to retrieve information of
ALBERTO BRUNETE, Arkin R. C., ERNESTO GAMBAO, JOSE EMILIO TORRES, MIGUEL HERNANDO, Pirjanian P., Roh S.   +6 more
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Photoswitching Conduction in Framework Materials

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This mini‐review summarizes recent advances in state‐of‐the‐art proton and electron conduction in framework materials that can be remotely and reversibly switched on and off by light. It discusses the various photoswitching conduction mechanisms and the strategies employed to enhance photoswitched conductivity.
Helmy Pacheco Hernandez, Stefan Hecht, Wolfgang Wenzel, Lars Heinke, Mariana Kozlowska   +4 more
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A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to Optimal Morphologies Generation in Reconfigurable Tiling Robots

Mathematics, 2023
Reconfigurable robots have the potential to perform complex tasks by adapting their morphology to different environments. However, designing optimal morphologies for these robots is challenging due to the large design space and the complex interactions ...
Manivannan Kalimuthu, Abdullah Aamir Hayat, Thejus Pathmakumar, Mohan Rajesh Elara, Kristin Lee Wood   +4 more
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