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Experimental Study on Double-Joint Soft Actuator and Its Dexterous Hand
Micromachines, 2023 In this paper, we propose a pneumatic double-joint soft actuator based on fiber winding and build a dexterous hand with 11 degrees of freedom. Firstly, soft actuator structural design is carried out according to the actuator driving principle and gives ...
Bingxing Chen +4 more
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Soft Pneumatic Gripper With a Tendon-Driven Soft Origami Pump
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.
Yeunhee Kim, Youngsu Cha
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Actuators, 2021 Dynamic modeling of soft pneumatic actuators are a challenging research field. In this paper, a dynamic modeling method used for a bi-directionaly soft pneumatic actuator with symmetrical chambers is proposed.
Yiqing Li, Wen Zhou, Junwu Wu, Guoxu Hu
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Snakeskin-Inspired 3D Printable Soft Robot Composed of Multi-Modular Vacuum-Powered Actuators
Actuators, 2023 A modular soft actuator with snakeskin-inspired scales that generates an anisotropic friction force is designed and evaluated in this study. The actuator makes it possible to fabricate soft robots that can move on various surfaces in the natural ...
Seonghyeon Lee +3 more
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Design and Performance of a Pneumatic-Based Expanding Torsional Soft Spring Actuator [PDF]
한국정밀공학회지, 2022 The soft robotics field, known to have actuators and systems with a simple manufacturing process, being lightweight and safe to interact with humans, is in constant expansion.
Jae Hyuck Jang +3 more
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Reconsidering Fascicles in Soft Pneumatic Actuator Packs
CoRR, 2023 This paper discusses and contests the claims of ``Soft Pneumatic Actuator Fascicles for High Force and Reliability'' a research article which was originally published in the March 2017 issue of the Journal Soft Robotics. The original paper claims that the summed forces of multiple thin-walled extending McKibben muscles are greater than a volumetrically
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Novel Design and Modeling of a Soft Pneumatic Actuator Based on Antagonism Mechanism
Actuators, 2020 The soft actuator possesses the characteristics of flexibility, environmental adaptability, and human–machine interaction. Firstly, aiming to resolve the limitation of variable stiffness performance of a traditional pneumatic artificial muscle (PAM ...
Yinglong Chen +2 more
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Biomimetics, 2023 The development of soft robotics owes much to the field of biomimetics, where soft actuators predominantly mimic the movement found in nature. In contrast to their rigid counterparts, soft robots offer superior safety and human–machine interaction ...
Dehao Duanmu +3 more
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Additive Manufacture of Composite Soft Pneumatic Actuators [PDF]
Soft Robotics, 2018 This article presents a direct additive manufacturing method for composite material soft pneumatic actuators that are capable of performing a range of programmable motions. Commonly, molding is the method used to manufacture soft fluidic actuators. This is material, labor, and time intensive and lacks the design freedom to produce custom actuators ...
Byrne, Oisín +6 more
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Position control of a soft pneumatic actuator based on the pressure parameter feedback model (PPFM) [PDF]
Mechanical SciencesSoft pneumatic actuators have been one of the cores of soft robotics research and play a key role in driving the development of soft robots. Due to its high degree of internal nonlinearity and unpredictable deformation caused by environmental influences,
Y. Liu +6 more
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