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Soft Pneumatic Actuators for Rehabilitation [PDF]
Actuators, 2014 Pneumatic artificial muscles are pneumatic devices with practical and various applications as common actuators. They, as human muscles, work in agonistic-antagonistic way, giving a traction force only when supplied by compressed air. The state of the art
Guido Belforte +3 more
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Modeling and Analysis of a Composite Structure-Based Soft Pneumatic Actuators for Soft-Robotic Gripper [PDF]
Sensors, 2022 Soft pneumatic actuators are extensively used in soft robots, and their bending angles and kinematic rules at different pressures play a crucial role in practical applications.
Ming Yu +5 more
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Soft Robotics: A Review of Recent Developments of Pneumatic Soft Actuators
Actuators, 2020 This paper focuses on the recent development of soft pneumatic actuators for soft robotics over the past few years, concentrating on the following four categories: control systems, material and construction, modeling, and sensors.
James Walker +6 more
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021 Pneumatic soft robotic systems show remarkable potentials in producing versatile locomotion and manipulations, owing to their flexibility in structural design and material selections. However, fabrication of pneumatic soft robotic systems with complex 3D
Yichi Luo, Jiang Zou, Guoying Gu
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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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Advances in Fabric-Based Pneumatic Soft Actuators for Flexible Robotics: Design and Applications [PDF]
SensorsAs a groundbreaking innovation in the field of soft robotics, fabric-based pneumatic soft actuators exhibit substantial advantages over traditional rigid mechanical systems in terms of adaptability, safety, and multifunctionality.
Yao Chai +4 more
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Design, Fabrication, and Performance Test of a New Type of Soft-Robotic Gripper for Grasping
Sensors, 2022 This investigation presents a novel soft-robotic pneumatic gripper that consists of three newly proposed soft actuators. The newly proposed soft actuators adopt a composite structure of two kinds of pneumatic networks which can work independently and ...
Hongjie Zhang +3 more
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A pneumatic random-access memory for controlling soft robots.
PLoS ONE, 2021 Pneumatically-actuated soft robots have advantages over traditional rigid robots in many applications. In particular, their flexible bodies and gentle air-powered movements make them more suitable for use around humans and other objects that could be ...
Shane Hoang +3 more
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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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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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