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A role-based software architecture to support mobile service computing in IoT scenarios [PDF]
, 2019 The interaction among components of an IoT-based system usually requires using low latency or real time for message delivery, depending on the application needs and the quality of the communication links among the components.
Eggly, Gabriel +5 more
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Untethered soft actuators for soft standalone robotics
Nature CommunicationsAbstractSoft actuators produce the mechanical force needed for the functional movements of soft robots, but they suffer from critical drawbacks since previously reported soft actuators often rely on electrical wires or pneumatic tubes for the power supply, which would limit the potential usage of soft robots in various practical applications.
Yeongju Jung +3 more
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Polypyrrole Soft Actuators [PDF]
, 2011 Organic soft actuators attract strong attentions because they have many advantages compared to conventional mechanical actuators. Organic soft actuators are generally light and flexibly deformed. In addition, they operate under low voltage ranges as low as 1 volt or so, and generate no sound during deformation.
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4D Printed Actuators with Soft‐Robotic Functions [PDF]
Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2017 AbstractSoft matter elements undergoing programed, reversible shape change can contribute to fundamental advance in areas such as optics, medicine, microfluidics, and robotics. Crosslinked liquid crystalline polymers have demonstrated huge potential to implement soft responsive elements; however, the complexity and size of the actuators are limited by ...
María López‐Valdeolivas +3 more
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3D printed electrically-driven soft actuators [PDF]
Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2018 Soft robotics is an emerging field enabled by advances in the development of soft materials with properties commensurate to their biological counterparts, for the purpose of reproducing locomotion and other distinctive capabilities of active biological organisms. The development of soft actuators is fundamental to the advancement of soft robots and bio-
Ghazaleh Haghiashtiani +4 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.
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Self-sustainable autonomous soft actuators
Communications ChemistryAbstractSelf-sustainable autonomous locomotion is a non-equilibrium phenomenon and an advanced intelligence of soft-bodied organisms that exhibit the abilities of perception, feedback, decision-making, and self-sustainment. However, artificial self-sustaining architectures are often derived from algorithms and onboard modules of soft robots, resulting ...
Zhen-Zhou Nie, Meng Wang, Hong Yang
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The difficulty of folding self-folding origami
, 2017 Why is it difficult to refold a previously folded sheet of paper? We show that even crease patterns with only one designed folding motion inevitably contain an exponential number of `distractor' folding branches accessible from a bifurcation at the flat ...
Murugan, Arvind +2 more
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A Fiber Positioner Robot for the Gran Telescopio Canarias
, 2010 Fiber-fed spectrographs dedicated to observing massive portions of the sky are increasingly being more demanded within the astronomical community. For all the fiber-fed instruments, the primordial and common problem is the positioning of the fiber ends ...
Arrillaga, Xabier +7 more
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Properties of piezoceramic materials in high electric field actuator applications
, 2019 In this paper, we compare the performance of 8 PZT ceramics and one PMN-PT material for typical bending actuator applications. This includes the measurement of non-linear transverse charge coefficient at high electric field strength and related ...
Bruno, Binal P +4 more
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