Light-driven soft robot with compound motion patterns based on gas–liquid phase transition chamber [PDF]
Scientific ReportsLight is increasingly being used to drive soft robots and soft actuators. In this paper, a light-driven soft robot with compound motion patterns based on gas-liquid phase transition chamber is proposed, which inspired by the frog and the larvae of gall ...
Zheqi Zhou +7 more
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Development and Control of a Pneumatic Robot Arm for Industrial Fields
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2012 We developed a pneumatic robot arm driven by pneumatic actuators as a versatile end effector for material handling systems. The arm consists of a pneumatic hand and pneumatic wrist.
Sho Maeda +4 more
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Motion Intention Prediction for Lumbar Exoskeletons Based on Attention-Enhanced sEMG Inference [PDF]
BiomimeticsExoskeleton robots function as augmentation systems that establish mechanical couplings with the human body, substantially enhancing the wearer’s biomechanical capabilities through assistive torques.
Mingming Wang +4 more
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A Self-Deformation Robot Design Incorporating Bending-Type Pneumatic Artificial Muscles
Technologies, 2019 With robots becoming closer to humans in recent years, human-friendly robots made of soft materials provide a new line of research interests. We designed and developed a soft robot that can move via self-deformation toward the practical application of ...
Hiroki Tomori +4 more
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Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of a Novel Crawling Pneumatic Soft Robot
AutomationSoft robots have shown great application potential in human–computer interaction, scientific exploration, and biomedical fields. However, they generally face issues like poor load capacity.
Huaqing Wu +8 more
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Development of pipe crawling robots with vibratory drives and investigation of their kinematic parameters [PDF]
Transport, 2002 In the article the classification of pipe crawling robots with vibratory drives is presented, their advantages and imperfections are reviewed. The schemes of the construction of a pipe crawling robot with a vibratory impulse drive and a pipe crawling ...
V. Mištinas, B. Spruogis
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Design and Feasibility Study of MRG–Based Variable Stiffness Soft Robot
Micromachines, 2022 The conventional pneumatic soft robot has the problem of insufficient stiffness, while in the magnetorheological soft robot, the magnetic field provided by electromagnet has the disadvantage of oversized structure and poor flexibility.
Luojing Huang, Hongsheng Hu, Qing Ouyang
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Active triggering control of pneumatic rehabilitation gloves based on surface electromyography sensors [PDF]
PeerJ Computer Science, 2021 The portable and inexpensive hand rehabilitation robot has become a practical rehabilitation device for patients with hand dysfunction. A pneumatic rehabilitation glove with an active trigger control system is proposed, which is based on surface ...
Yongfei Feng +6 more
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Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2021 Robots are becoming more familiar to humans, and soft robot that light and flexible and safety are attracting attention. We designed self-deformation-robot(SDR) for exploration and watching using bending-type-pneumatic-artificial-muscle (BPAM) which ...
Naoya ISHIGURI +2 more
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Modeling and Experimental Study of a Novel Multi-DOF Parallel Soft Robot
IEEE Access, 2020 In view of the demand for flexible drive and large load of the soft robot in the practical application, a novel type of flexible-actuated multi-degree-of-freedom (multi-DOF) parallel soft robot is designed.
Jie Zhang +6 more
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