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The Design, Kinematics and Torque Analysis of the Self-Bending Soft Contraction Actuator [PDF]
Actuators, 2020 This article presents the development of a self-bending contraction actuator (SBCA) through the analysis of its structure, kinematics, and torque formulas, and then explores its applications.
Alaa Al-Ibadi +2 more
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Experimental Study on Double-Joint Soft Actuator and Its Dexterous Hand [PDF]
Micromachines, 2023 In this paper, we propose a pneumatic double-joint soft actuator based on fiber winding and build a dexterous hand with 11 degrees of freedom. Firstly, soft actuator structural design is carried out according to the actuator driving principle and gives ...
Bingxing Chen +4 more
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Design of a pneumatic soft actuator controlled via eye tracking and detection [PDF]
Heliyon, 2020 This work describes the control of a pneumatic soft robotic actuator via eye movements. The soft robot is actuated using two supply sources: a vacuum pump and an air supply pump for both negative and positive air supply sources respectively.
Victoria Oguntosin, Ademola Abdulkareem
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Configuration Synthesis and Performance Analysis of Finger Soft Actuator [PDF]
Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 2018 Compared with the traditional rigid finger actuator, the soft actuator has the advantages of light weight and good compliance. This type of finger actuator can be used for data acquisition or finger rehabilitation training, and it has broad application ...
Ziqiang Zhang +2 more
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Hemispherical Cell-Inspired Soft Actuator. [PDF]
Front Bioeng Biotechnol, 2020 As soft robots have been popular, interest in soft actuators is also increasing. In particular, new types of actuators have been proposed through biomimetics. An actuator that we proposed in this study was inspired by a motor cell that enables plants to move.
Song K, Cha Y.
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Soft electromagnetic actuators [PDF]
Science Advances, 2020 We present soft electromagnetic actuators from liquid metal and elastomer that are safe, stretchy, fast, durable, and programmable.
Mao, Guoyong +6 more
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Increasing Bending Performance of Soft Actuator by Silicon Rubbers of Multiple Hardness
Machines, 2022 In this study, a method for fabricating actuators made of various silicone materials is proposed to improve the flexural performance of soft-body actuators.
Xishuang Jing +3 more
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Design and Experimental Study of Cavity Structure of Pneumatic Soft Actuator
Actuators, 2023 In order to study the influence of the cavity inclination angle bending performance of pneumatic soft actuators, two kinds of soft actuators were designed, one with a five-degree-angle cavity structure, and the other with a hybrid variable-degree-angle ...
Yang Yu, Tao Fu
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A Wearable Soft Tactile Actuator With High Output Force for Fingertip Interaction
IEEE Access, 2021 This paper reports a soft fingertip-mountable tactile actuator based on a Dielectric Elastomer Actuator (DEA), which exhibits high output force over a wide frequency range with a lightweight and soft structure. DEA is a soft actuator characterized by its
Jung-Hwan Youn, Heeju Mun, Ki-Uk Kyung
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Soft material for soft actuators [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2017 AbstractInspired by natural muscle, a key challenge in soft robotics is to develop self-contained electrically driven soft actuators with high strain density. Various characteristics of existing technologies, such as the high voltages required to trigger electroactive polymers ( > 1KV), low strain ( < 10%) of shape memory alloys and the need for ...
Aslan Miriyev, Kenneth Stack, Hod Lipson
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