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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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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
Ki-Uk Kyung, Heeju Mun, Jung-Hwan Youn
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Design, Measurement and Shape Reconstruction of Soft Surgical Actuator Based on Fiber Bragg Gratings
Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 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.
Guangkai Sun, Mingxin Yu, Lianqing Zhu
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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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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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Development and Analysis of Key Components of a Multi Motion Mode Soft-Bodied Pipe Robot
Actuators, 2022 In order to enhance the environmental adaptability of peristaltic soft-bodied pipe robots, based on the nonlinear and hyperelastic characteristics of silicone rubber combined with the biological structure and motion characteristics of worms, a hexagonal ...
Ning Wang +4 more
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Actuators, 2023 A soft actuator is an essential component in a soft robot that enables it to perform complex movements by combining different fundamental motion modes.
Beau Ragland, Lianjun Wu
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Development and Performance Analysis of Pneumatic Soft-Bodied Bionic Actuator
Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 2021 The design of a pneumatic soft-bodied bionic actuator derives from the structural characteristics and motion mechanism of biological muscles, combined with the nonlinear hyperelasticity of silica gel, which can improve the mobility and environmental ...
Wenchuan Zhao, Yu Zhang, Ning Wang
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