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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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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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Design, Measurement and Shape Reconstruction of Soft Surgical Actuator Based on Fiber Bragg Gratings
Applied Sciences, 2018 Soft actuators are the components responsible for organs and tissues adsorptive fixation in some surgical operations, but the lack of shape sensing and monitoring of a soft actuator greatly limits their application potential.
Yanlin He +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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Origami-Inspired Soft Twisting Actuator
Soft Robotics, 2023 Soft actuators have shown great advantages in compliance and morphology matched for manipulation of delicate objects and inspection in a confined space. There is an unmet need for a soft actuator that can provide torsional motion to, for example, enlarge working space and increase degrees of freedom.
Diancheng Li, Renjie Zhu, Yuxuan Liao
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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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Biodegradable Electrohydraulic Soft Actuators
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022 Biodegradable materials decompose and return to nature. This functionality can be applied to derive robotic systems that are environmentally friendly. This study presents a fully biodegradable soft actuator, which is one of the key elements in “green” soft robotics. The working of the actuator is based on an electrohydraulic principle, which is similar
Ryo Kanno +5 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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