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A Modular Soft Robotic Wrist for Underwater Manipulation

Soft Robotics, 2018
This article presents the development of modular soft robotic wrist joint mechanisms for delicate and precise manipulation in the harsh deep-sea environment. The wrist consists of a rotary module and bending module, which can be combined with other actuators as part of a complete manipulator system.
Kurumaya Shunichi, Brennan T. Phillips, Kaitlyn P. Becker, Michelle H. Rosen, David F. Gruber, Kevin C. Galloway, Suzumori Koichi, Robert J. Wood   +7 more
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Design and locomotion analysis of modular soft robot

Robotica, 2022
AbstractIn the paper, a novel modular soft robot that can crawl and turn is presented. The modular soft robot is composed of multiple drive modules connected in series, including one head module, one tail module and three body modules. Each module is actuated by the air chamber.
Zhaoyu Liu, Yuxuan Wang, Jiangbei Wang, Yanqiong Fei   +3 more
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Gait Synthesis for Modular Soft Robots

2017
Soft robots present a new opportunity for designing robots that can be produced quickly (on the order of hours), are capable of a variety of motions and behaviors, and are able to address a wide range of environments and tasks. The large design space of soft actuators can be leveraged to rapidly generate libraries of robotic components that can be used
Scott Hamill, Bryan Peele, Peter Ferenz, Max Westwater, Robert F. Shepherd, Hadas Kress-Gazit   +5 more
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Low-Cost Wireless Modular Soft Tensegrity Robots

2019 2nd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), 2019
Completely soft robots are emerging as a compelling new platform for exploring and operating in unstructured, rugged, and dynamic environments. Unfortunately, the very properties which make soft robots so appealing also make them difficult to accurately model, scalably design, and robustly control.
Jonathan Kimber, Zongliang Ji, Aikaterini Petridou, Thomas Sipple, Kentaro Barhydt, James Boggs, Luke Dosiek, John Rieffel   +7 more
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Cooperation in Evolved Modular Soft Robots

Self-assembly is the ability of natural beings to aggregate in a suitable structure in order to tackle complex tasks that could not be solved by single individuals. Robotics tries to replicate this ability to solve complex problems using artificial embodied physical agents.
Paolo Baldini, Michele Braccini, Filippo Benvenuti, Eric Medvet, Andrea Roli, Francesco Rusin   +5 more
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Soft Cells for Modular Robots

2014
Keywords: modular robotics ; soft robotics ; physics-based computer simulations ; soft connectivity ; smart materials ; self-assembly ; morphing These Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne EPFL, n° 6217 (2014)Programme doctoral Systemes de production et RobotiqueFaculte des sciences et techniques de l'ingenieurInstitut de microtechniqueLaboratoire ...
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Soft Modular Climbing Robots

IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023
Qiqiang Hu, Erbao Dong, Dong Sun
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Modular assembly of soft deployable structures and robots

Materials Horizons, 2017
The first soft deployable robot, called DeployBot, capable of both deploying itself and of movement without additional motors is introduced. This robot can serve as the first step toward a new class of soft robots that is modular, self-deploying, and capable of locomotion “out of the box”.
Wei Wang, Nam-Geuk Kim, Hugo Rodrigue, Sung-Hoon Ahn   +3 more
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Soft pneumatic actuator-driven origami-inspired modular robotic “pneumagami”

The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2020
This article presents a new modular robotic platform for enabling reconfigurable, actively controlled, high-degree-of-freedom (high-DoF) systems with compact form factor. The robotic modules exploit the advantages of origami-inspired construction methods and materials, and soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) to achieve an actuator embedded, parallel ...
Matthew A Robertson, Ozdemir Can Kara, Jamie Paik   +2 more
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An Integrated Framework for Modular Reconfigurable Soft Robots

2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2018
Soft robots have tremendous motion capability, and their modular methodology helps in setting up reconfigurable and flexible prototypes. In this paper, a user-friendly integrated framework for a modular reconfigurable soft robot system is proposed, which contains a generic electrical design pattern, and a software framework encapsulating a scalable ...
Yihong Zhang, Manjia Su, Yisheng Guan, Haifei Zhu, Shixin Mao   +4 more
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