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Reconfigurable Soft Robots by Building Blocks
Advanced Science, 2022 Soft robots are of increasing interest as they can cope with challenges that are poorly addressed by conventional rigid‐body robots (e.g., limited flexibility).
Mohamed G. B. Atia +4 more
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Reconfigurable multifunctional ferrofluid droplet robots [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020 Significance This work proposes reconfigurable multifunctional ferrofluid droplets as soft robots to overcome the limitation of existing magnetically actuated miniature soft robots based on elastomers, i.e., they cannot navigate inside very clustered and
Xinjian Fan +4 more
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Intrinsically flexible multimode reconfigurable transistors for polymorphic circuits and neuromorphic devices [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsReconfigurable transistors hold considerable significance for both integrated circuits and neuromorphic electronics. At the same time, flexible electronics is developing rapidly, promoted by various emerging applications, such as wearable electronics and
Wanting Wang +12 more
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Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2017 In this article, a decentralized control strategy is presented for harmonic drive–based modular and reconfigurable robots with uncertain environment contact. Unlike conventional methods that rely on robot–environment contact model or force/torque sensing,
Bo Dong, Yan Li, Keping Liu
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Micro/Nano-Reconfigurable Robots for Intelligent Carbon Management in Confined-Space Life-Support Systems [PDF]
Nano-Micro LettersHighlights The micro/nano-reconfigurable robots for life-support systems were fabricated by CO₂-capturing molecular hunters, temperature-sensitive molecular switches, and solar photothermal conversion/magnetically-driven dual function engines.
Wei Lu +7 more
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RWD-DOF: a dual-degree-of-freedom reconfigurable wheel design for improved robotic mobility [PDF]
Scientific ReportsWheeled mobile robots are efficient on flat surfaces but face limitations in overcoming obstacles like steps due to their fixed wheel radius. This paper presents a novel modular reconfigurable wheel with a dual-degree-of-freedom active reconfigurable ...
Yanjie Liu +4 more
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Printing Untethered Self‐Reconfigurable, Self‐Amputating Soft Robots from Recyclable Self‐Healing Fibers [PDF]
Advanced ScienceRegarding the challenge of self‐reconfiguration and self‐amputation of soft robots, existing studies mainly focus on modular soft robots and connection methods between modules.
Yidan Gao +7 more
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IEEE Access, 2019 Extensive studies regarding complete coverage problems have been conducted, but a few tackle scenarios where the mobile robot is equipped with reconfigurable modules.
Ku Ping Cheng +3 more
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Nested Reconfigurable Robots: Theory, Design, and Realization
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2015 Rather than the conventional classification method, we propose to divide modular and reconfigurable robots into intra-, inter-, and nested reconfigurations.
Ning Tan +4 more
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Advances in Reconfigurable Vectorial Thrusters for Adaptive Underwater Robots
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021 Manoeuvrability is one of the essential keys in the development of improved autonomous underwater vehicles for challenging missions. In the last years, more researches were dedicated to the development of new hulls shapes and thrusters to assure more ...
Henrique Fagundes Gasparoto +3 more
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