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Spider‐Inspired Electrohydraulic Actuators for Fast, Soft‐Actuated Joints [PDF]
Advanced Science, 2021 AbstractThe impressive locomotion and manipulation capabilities of spiders have led to a host of bioinspired robotic designs aiming to reproduce their functionalities; however, current actuation mechanisms are deficient in either speed, force output, displacement, or efficiency.
Nicholas Kellaris +6 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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Dual‐Responsive Soft Actuators with Integrated Sensing Function Based on 1T‐MoS2 Composite
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021 Developing a multiresponsive and multifunctional soft actuator that can output mechanical deformation is crucial to the fields of soft robotics and wearable devices. Herein, a 2D metallic molybdenum disulfide (MoS2)‐based soft actuator with dual‐response
Qixiao Ji +8 more
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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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Scientific Reports, 2023 We present a new type of torsional soft morphing actuator designed and fabricated by twisted shape memory alloy (SMA) wires embedded in polydimethylsiloxane matrix.
Su-Yeon Lee, Gil-Yong Lee
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Sensors, 2023 This paper proposes a method for accurate 3D posture sensing of the soft actuators, which could be applied to the closed-loop control of soft robots. To achieve this, the method employs an array of miniaturized sponge resistive materials along the soft ...
Jing Shu +5 more
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Fabrication, Mechanical Modeling, and Experiments of a 3D-Motion Soft Actuator for Flexible Sensing
IEEE Access, 2020 This paper introduces the modular design and manufacturing method, mechanical model, and test verification of a new type of soft actuator driven by fluid. First, the modular design scheme and driving principle of omnidirectional bending and elongation of
Jian Zhang +3 more
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A Switchable Dual‐Mode Actuator Enabled by Bistable Structure
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022 Soft actuators are favored due to their flexibility and adaptability, but are limited to single actuation mode. Herein, a novel soft actuator with a dual‐kinestate performance is proposed.
Bo Li +5 more
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Electrically Controlled Soft Actuators with Multiple and Reprogrammable Actuation Modes
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2020 New forms of soft actuators have enabled the construction of novel soft robots with various functionalities. Though previous researches have successfully fabricated soft actuators with diverse actuation modes, their actuation capabilities are often fixed
Yang Wang +4 more
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Dynamics of electrohydraulic soft actuators [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020 Nature has inspired the design of robots in which soft actuators enable tasks such as handling of fragile objects and adapting to unstructured environments. Those tasks are difficult for traditional robots, which predominantly consist of hard components.
Philipp Rothemund +2 more
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