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Soft Actuation for Home and Office [PDF]
2013 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, 2013 Nowadays, most effort in the area of context-aware systems goes into applications that process sensor data to proactively drive actuators. We share the concerns raised about such fully automated operation. Most notably, due to imperfect context inferences, actuating decisions are often contrary to the user's actual desires.
Jaroslaw Domaszewicz, Spyros Lalis
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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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Modeling of a Soft-Rigid Gripper Actuated by a Linear-Extension Soft Pneumatic Actuator [PDF]
Sensors, 2021 Soft robot has been one significant study in recent decades and soft gripper is one of the popular research directions of soft robot. In a static gripping system, excessive gripping force and large deformation are the main reasons for damage of the object during the gripping process.
Peilin Cheng +3 more
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Performance Metrics for Fluidic Soft Robot Rotational Actuators
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 The field of soft robotics is continuing to grow as more researchers see the potential for robots that can safely interact in unmodeled, unstructured, and uncertain environments.
Levi Rupert +2 more
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Soft Actuators for Soft Robotic Applications: A Review [PDF]
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2020 Soft robotics technologies are paving the way toward robotic abilities which are vital for a wide range of applications, including manufacturing, manipulation, gripping, human–machine interaction, locomotion, and more. An essential component in a soft robot is the soft actuator which provides the system with a deformable body and allows it to interact ...
Nazek El-Atab +8 more
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Light-Responsive Soft Actuators: Mechanism, Materials, Fabrication, and Applications
, 2021 Soft robots are those that can move like living organisms and adapt to the surrounding environment. Compared with traditional rigid robots, the advantages of soft robots, in terms of material flexibility, human–computer interaction, and biological ...
Yaoli Huang +5 more
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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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Design, Fabrication, and Performance Test of a New Type of Soft-Robotic Gripper for Grasping
Sensors, 2022 This investigation presents a novel soft-robotic pneumatic gripper that consists of three newly proposed soft actuators. The newly proposed soft actuators adopt a composite structure of two kinds of pneumatic networks which can work independently and ...
Hongjie Zhang +3 more
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Untethered magneto-thermal flexible actuators for soft robotics
, 2023 Soft robots are devices that can perform delicate and sensitive movements. Such robots have flexible actuators activated by external triggers. Magnetic soft actuators, triggered by external magnetic fields, can be operated remotely and wirelessly.
Ge, Qi +8 more
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Evolution from Telescoping to Bending: An Origami-Inspired Flexible Bending Actuator
Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 2023 Soft actuators have great potential in human–machine interaction and soft robotics innovation. Origami exhibiting outstanding structural and topological properties can be a paradigm for people to design various soft robots.
Zhaowen Shao +3 more
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