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Scaling Up Soft Robotics: A Meter-Scale, Modular, and Reconfigurable Soft Robotic System

Soft Robotics, 2022
Today's use of large-scale industrial robots is enabling extraordinary achievement on the assembly line, but these robots remain isolated from the humans on the factory floor because they are very powerful, and thus dangerous to be around. In contrast, the soft robotics research community has proposed soft robots that are safe for human environments ...
Li, Shuguang, Awale, Samer A., Bacher, Katharine E., Buchner, Thomas J., Della Santina, Cosimo, Wood, Robert J., Rus, Daniela   +6 more
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A modular approach to soft robots

2012 4th IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2012
This paper describes a modular approach to creating soft robotic systems. The basis of these systems is an elastomeric actuation element powered by direct mechanical energy in the form of pressurized fluids. Fluidic elastomer actuators are fast and inexpensive to fabricate and offer safety and adaptability to robotic systems.
Cagdas D. Onal, Daniela Rus
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A Modular Soft Robotic Wrist for Underwater Manipulation

Soft Robotics, 2018
Abstract 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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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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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 0003, Manjia Su, Yisheng Guan, Haifei Zhu, Shixin Mao   +4 more
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Development of magnet connection of modular units for soft robotics

2017 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), 2017
Field of soft robotics has been widely researched. Modularization of soft robots is one of the effort to expand the field. In this paper, we introduce a magnet connection for modularized soft units which were introduced in our previous research. The magnet connector was designed with off the shelf magnets.
Jun-Young Lee, Kyu-Jin Cho
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Design and Modularization of Multi-DoF Soft Robotic Actuators

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2019
Soft robotic technologies offer a promising solution for unconstructed applications due to their complete softness, robustness, and flexibility. In this letter, we explore the design and modularization of the flexible pneumatic robotic actuators for applying in minimally invasive surgery or other constrained spaces.
Boyu Zhang 0003, Chengquan Hu, Penghui Yang 0003, Zhuxiu Liao, Hongen Liao   +4 more
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Modular force approximating soft robotic pneumatic actuator

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2018
Soft robots are highly flexible and adaptable instruments that have proven extremely useful, especially in the surgical environment where compliance allows for improved maneuverability throughout the body. Endoscopic devices are a primary example of an instrument that physicians use to navigate to difficult-to-reach areas inside the body.
Austin J. Taylor, Rommel Montayre, Zhuo Zhao, Ka-Wai Kwok, Zion Tsz Ho Tse   +4 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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Optimization based soft-sensing framework for modularized robots

2016 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII), 2016
System state information for feedback control and pose planning in robotic systems often requires multiple torque sensors that can increase the overall system complexity and cost. Using available module internal sensor data and rigid body simulation based observers, we can minimize the number of hardware sensors required to estimate the actual robot ...
Lionel M. Sobehart, Hiroyuki Harada
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