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Soft Pneumatic Gripper With a Tendon-Driven Soft Origami Pump [PDF]

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2020
In this study, we propose a soft pneumatic gripper that uses a tendon-driven soft origami pump. The gripper consists of three pneumatic soft actuators that are controlled by a tendon-driven origami pump. An external air compressor that supplies air to the pneumatic actuator is replaced by an origami pump.
Yeunhee Kim, Youngsu Cha
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Utilizing Anisotropic Fabrics Composites for High-Strength Soft Manipulator Integrating Soft Gripper

IEEE Access, 2019
Fabrics are promising materials to realize the high-strength soft robots as they are anisotropic, stretchable, and intrinsically high strength. Exploiting these properties, here we present the design and test of novel high-strength hydraulic soft ...
Yinglong Chen, Junhao Zhang, Yongjun Gong   +2 more
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Recursive Least Squares Filtering Algorithms for On-Line Viscoelastic Characterization of Biosamples [PDF]

, 2018
The mechanical characterization of biological samples is a fundamental issue in biology and related fields, such as tissue and cell mechanics, regenerative medicine and diagnosis of diseases.
Aceto, Maria, Di Giamberardino, Paolo, Giannini, Oliviero, Verotti, Matteo   +3 more
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Fin Ray Effect Inspired Soft Robotic Gripper: From the RoboSoft Grand Challenge Toward Optimization

Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2016
A soft robotic gripper for a Tele-operable In-Home Robotic Assistant (TIHRA) for the mobility impaired is presented. This gripper is inspired by the Fin Ray textsuperscript textregistered Effect, which is derived from the physiology of fish fins.
Whitney Crooks, Gabrielle Vukasin, Maeve O'Sullivan, William Messner, Chris Rogers   +4 more
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Leveraging Elastic instabilities for Amplified Performance: spine-inspired high-speed and high-force soft robots

, 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, Huang, TH, Maghsoudi, OH, Spence, A, Spence, Andrew|, Su, H, Sun, J, Tang, Y, Yin, J, Zhao, J   +9 more
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Fabrication of a Soft Robotic Gripper With Integrated Strain Sensing Elements Using Multi-Material Additive Manufacturing

Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021
With the purpose of making soft robotic structures with embedded sensors, additive manufacturing techniques like fused deposition modeling (FDM) are popular.
Antonia Georgopoulou, Antonia Georgopoulou, Bram Vanderborght, Frank Clemens   +3 more
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Tendon-Driven Variable-Stiffness Pneumatic Soft Gripper Robot

Robotics, 2023
In recent times, the soft robotics field has been attracting significant research focus owing to its high level of manipulation capabilities unlike traditional rigid robots, which gives room for increasing use in other areas.
Safeh Clinton Mawah, Yong-Jai Park
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A Pneumatic Fingerless Soft Gripper for Envelope Gripping

Actuators
In grasping operations, when facing unstructured environments, the use of soft-body grippers can be a good solution to the problem of grasping objects that are inconvenient to grasp due to their fragility and irregularity.
Shuman Xu, Hongmei Du, Shangsheng Zhang, Ruicheng Lei, Jian Wang, Yulian Li, Zengzhi Zhang   +6 more
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Design and Evaluation of a Novel Hybrid Soft Surgical Gripper for Safe Digital Nerve Manipulation

Micromachines, 2019
Forceps are essential tools for digital nerve manipulation during digital nerve repair surgery. However, surgeons have to operate forceps with extreme caution to prevent detrimental post-operative complications caused by over-gripping force.
Jin Guo, Jin-Huat Low, Yoke-Rung Wong, Chen-Hua Yeow   +3 more
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A vacuum-driven rubber-band gripper

ROBOMECH Journal, 2021
Robotic grippers that gently handle objects of various shapes are required for various applications these days. Conventional finger-shaped grippers are multifunctional and can grip various objects; however, grasping an item without slippage requires ...
Ko Yamada, Takashi Mitsuda
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