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An Interconnected Soft Modular Robot with Locomotive Modules and Flexible Structures Actuated Through a Single Method

Soft Robotics
This article presents a unique soft robot comprised of highly compliant locomotive modules interconnected with jamming-capable flexible envelopes. The modules incorporate origami-inspired actuators and suction cups for robust omnidirectional locomotion ...
Koki Tanaka, Matthew Spenko
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An obstacle-avoiding and stiffness-tunable modular bionic soft robot

Robotica (Cambridge. Print), 2022
The aim of this work is to design and model a novel modular bionic soft robot for crawling and crossing obstacles. The modular bionic soft robot is composed of several serial driving soft modules, each module is composed of two parallel soft actuators ...
Zhaoyu Liu, Yuxuan Wang, Jiangbei Wang, Y. Fei, Qitong Du   +4 more
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On the Exploration of LM-Based Soft Modular Robot Design

arXiv.org
Recent large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising capabilities in modeling real-world knowledge and enhancing knowledge-based generation tasks.
Weicheng Ma, Luyang Zhao, Chun-Yi She, Yitao Jiang, Alan Sun, Bo Zhu, Devin J. Balkcom, Soroush Vosoughi   +7 more
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SMoLBot-VS: A Soft Modular Robot Capable of Modulating Backbone Stiffness

International Conference on Soft Robotics
Handling complex terrains is often problematic for miniature mobile robots due to their small size and low weight. Soft robots can utilize their compliance to overcome obstacles in the terrain, but their performances decline for tasks that require load ...
Muhammed Uygun, Onur Özcan
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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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Soft modular pipe robot inspired by earthworm for adaptive pipeline internal structure

Smart materials and structures (Print)
The inspection, maintenance, and repair of complex pipelines have motivated the development of soft robots with highly flexible and good adaptability. In this study, inspired by the unique locomotion of earthworms, we developed a type of smart material ...
Jing Jiang, Feng Zhang, Lei Wang
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Adaptive variable impedance control for a modular soft robot manipulator in configuration space

Meccanica (Milano. Print), 2021
Compliance is a strong requirement for human–robot interactions. Soft-robots provide an opportunity to cover the lack of compliance in conventional actuation mechanisms, however, the control of them is very challenging given their intrinsic complex ...
Mahmood Mazare, Silvia Tolu, M. Taghizadeh   +2 more
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Design and Control of a Modular, Untethered Soft Origami Robot Driven by SMA Coils

IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (1982. Print)
Soft robots show advantages in flexibility and safe interaction compared with traditional rigid robots. The modular design of soft robots further improves their reconfigurability and easy maintenance. This article presents a soft modular robot based on a
Qiqiang Hu, Zhenlin Chen, Erbao Dong, Dong Sun   +3 more
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ModSoftBot: Design, Modeling, and Control of a Modular Pneumatic Serial Soft Robot

2025 International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS)
Soft robots inspired by nature have demonstrated several advantages over conventional rigid robots. The design and fabrication of these soft robots are essential to achieve the desired requirements.
Jiawei Yi, Wissem Haouas, K. Rabenorosoa
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Self-reconfiguring Soft Modular Cellbots

International Conference on Soft Robotics, 2023
In nature, cells combine into different structures to perform required tasks and can break and rejoin to make smaller and larger organisms. Taking inspiration from cells, we present an adaptive soft robot composed of simple modular elements (cells) in a ...
Ridhi Bansal, H. Hauser, J. Rossiter
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