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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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Earthworm‐Inspired Multi‐Material, Adaptive Strain‐Limiting, Hybrid Actuators for Soft Robots
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 This research presents a new class of versatile multi‐material hybrid actuators (MASH actuators), powered by pneumatics and electrostatic adhesion (EA)‐based adaptive strain‐limiting layers.
Quan Xiong +4 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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Passive and active acoustic sensing for soft pneumatic actuators
The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2023 We propose a sensorization method for soft pneumatic actuators that uses an embedded microphone and speaker to measure different actuator properties. The physical state of the actuator determines the specific modulation of sound as it travels through the structure.
Vincent Wall +2 more
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Design of soft multi-material pneumatic actuators based on principal strain field
Materials & Design, 2019 As a key component of soft robots, soft actuators are responsible for producing motion. There has been continuous research on searching for efficient and systematical design tools to accommodate various applications of soft actuators.
Longwei Ding +6 more
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Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2014 There has been increased interest in use of pneumatic actuators in many fields, such as medical care and welfare. In particular, proposed pneumatic soft actuator with soft material has many advantages such as low mass, flexibility, safety and user ...
Hironari TANIGUCHI +2 more
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Biomimetics, 2022 The industrial revolution 4.0 has led to a burst in the development of robotic automation and platforms to increase productivity in the industrial and health domains. Hence, there is a necessity for the design and production of smart and multi-functional
Nikolaos Kladovasilakis +5 more
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Design and Motion Analysis of Adjustable Pneumatic Soft Manipulator for Grasping Objects
IEEE Access, 2020 Soft robots have infinite degrees of freedom (DOFs), extremely strong environmental adaptability, and better human-computer interaction. A soft grasping manipulator can grasp objects in a diversified manner, which is an important application and research
Quansheng Jiang, Fengyu Xu
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A Sensorized Soft Pneumatic Actuator Fabricated with Extrusion-Based Additive Manufacturing
Actuators, 2021 Soft pneumatic actuators with a channel network (pneu-net) based on thermoplastic elastomers are compatible with fused deposition modeling (FDM). However, conventional filament-based fused deposition modeling (FDM) printers are not well suited for ...
Antonia Georgopoulou +3 more
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Characterization of silicone rubber based soft pneumatic actuators [PDF]
2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2013 Conventional pneumatic actuators have been a popular choice due to their decent force/torque output. Nowadays, new generation of pneumatic actuator made out of highly compliant elastomers, which we call soft pneumatic actuators (SPA), are drawing increasing attention due to their ease of fabrication, high customizability and innately softness. However,
Yi Sun, Yun Seong Song, Jamie Paik
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