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Soft, Rotating Pneumatic Actuator [PDF]
Soft Robotics, 2017 This article describes a soft pneumatic actuator that generates cyclical motion. The actuator consists of several (three, four, or five) chambers (arranged around the circumference of a circle surrounding a central rod) that can be actuated independently using negative pressure (or partial vacuum).
Ainla, Alar +3 more
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Highly Mobile Levitating Soft Actuator Driven by Multistimuli‐Responses
Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2020 Soft actuators exhibit activeness and flexibility and are widely used as next‐generation intelligent devices. However, their locomotion depends on friction with contact surfaces that restrict their movement. To overcome this limitation, a noncontact‐type
Ji Hun Kim +2 more
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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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Design and Characterisation of a 3D-Printed Pneumatic Rotary Actuator Exploiting Enhanced Elastic Properties of Auxetic Metamaterials [PDF]
ActuatorsThis paper describes the design and characterisation of a novel hybrid pneumatic rotational actuator that aims to overcome the limitations of both rigid and soft actuators while combining their advantages; indeed, the designed actuator consists of a soft
Francesca Federica Donadio +5 more
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Modular soft pneumatic actuator mimics elephant trunk locomotion
Scientific ReportsRobots support and facilitate tasks in all life fields. Soft robots specifically have the advantages of inherent compliance, safe interaction and flexible deformability.
Ahmad R. Elchrif +3 more
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Soft actuator and agile soft robot
, 2022 Robots play an important part in many aspects of our society by doing repetitive, dangerous, or precision tasks. Most existing robots are made of rigid components, which lack passive compliance and pose a challenge in adapting to the environment and safe human-robot interaction.
Xia, Boxi
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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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A Sensorized Soft Pneumatic Actuator Fabricated with Extrusion-Based Additive Manufacturing [PDF]
, 2021 Soft pneumatic actuators with a channel network (pneu-net) based on thermoplastic elastomers are compatible with fused deposition modeling (FDM). However, conventional filament-based fused deposition modeling (FDM) printers are not well suited for ...
Georgopoulou, Antonia +7 more
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Fabrication and Dynamic Modeling of Bidirectional Bending Soft Actuator Integrated with Optical Waveguide Curvature Sensor. [PDF]
Soft Robot, 2019 Soft robots exhibit many exciting properties due to their softness and body compliance. However, to interact with the environment safely and to perform a task effectively, a soft robot faces a series of challenges such as dexterous motion, proprioceptive
Chen W, Xiong C, Liu C, Li P, Chen Y.
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SensAct: the soft and squishy tactile sensor with integrated flexible actuator [PDF]
, 2021 Herein, a novel tactile sensing device (SensAct) with a soft touch/pressure sensor seamlessly integrated on a flexible actuator is presented. The squishy touch sensor is developed with custom‐made graphite paste on a tiny permanent magnet, encapsulated ...
Markellos Ntagios +16 more
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