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Novel Design and Modeling of a Soft Pneumatic Actuator Based on Antagonism Mechanism
Actuators, 2020 The soft actuator possesses the characteristics of flexibility, environmental adaptability, and human–machine interaction. Firstly, aiming to resolve the limitation of variable stiffness performance of a traditional pneumatic artificial muscle (PAM ...
Yinglong Chen +2 more
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Monolithic shape-programmable dielectric liquid crystal elastomer actuators
, 2019 Macroscale robotic systems have demonstrated great capabilities of high speed, precise, and agile functions. However, the ability of soft robots to perform complex tasks, especially in centimeter and millimeter scale, remains limited due to the ...
Aghakhani, Amirreza +7 more
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Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 We introduce a soft robot actuator composed of a pre-stressed elastomer film embedded with shape memory alloy (SMA) and a liquid metal (LM) curvature sensor. SMA-based actuators are commonly used as electrically-powered limbs to enable walking, crawling,
Zhijian Ren +5 more
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, 2020 Soft machines typically exhibit slow locomotion speed and low manipulation strength because of intrinsic limitations of soft materials. Here, we present a generic design principle that harnesses mechanical instability for a variety of spine-inspired fast
Chi, Y +9 more
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Programmable and Variable‐Stiffness Robotic Skins for Pneumatic Actuation
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 Pneumatic soft actuators possess relatively fast response, inherent high flexibility, and achieve extraordinary shape morphing under large deformations.
Weinan Gao +8 more
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Dual sensing-actuation artificial muscle based on polypyrrole-carbon nanotube composite [PDF]
, 2017 Dual sensing artificial muscles based on conducting polymer are faradaic motors driven by electrochemical reactions, which announce the development of proprioceptive devices. The applicability of different composites has been investigated with the aim to
Fernández Otero, Toribio +2 more
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Vine Robots: Design, Teleoperation, and Deployment for Navigation and Exploration
, 2020 A new class of continuum robots has recently been explored, characterized by tip extension, significant length change, and directional control. Here, we call this class of robots "vine robots," due to their similar behavior to plants with the growth ...
Blumenschein, Laura H. +9 more
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.This article presents the design, modeling, and characterization of air‐pressure–actuated programmable vibroacoustic metamaterials (PVAMM). The study focuses on leveraging air pressure to dynamically tune resonance frequencies for effective noise attenuation.
William Kaal +2 more
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Soft Controllable Carbon Fibre-based Piezoresistive Self-Sensing Actuators
Actuators, 2020 Soft robots and devices exploit deformable materials that are capable of changes in shape to allow conformable physical contact for controlled manipulation. While the use of embedded sensors in soft actuation systems is gaining increasing interest, there
Min Pan +6 more
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Self-Sensing Control for Soft-Material Actuators Based on Dielectric Elastomers [PDF]
, 2019 Due to their energy density and softness that are comparable to human muscles dielectric elastomer (DE) transducers are well-suited for soft-robotic applications. This kind of transducer combines actuator and sensor functionality within one transducer so
Hoffstadt, Thorben, Maas, Jürgen
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