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3D Shrinking for Rapid Fabrication of Origami-Inspired Semi-Soft Pneumatic Actuators
IEEE Access, 2020 Soft actuators are an essential component of soft robots. They are also well suited for human-friendly robots due to their intrinsic safety. The advantages of origami structures have motivated the development of origami-inspired semi-soft actuators.
Abdelrahman Zaghloul, Gary M. Bone
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Fabrication of Multi-Material Pneumatic Actuators and Microactuators Using Stereolithography
Micromachines, 2023 Pneumatic actuators are of great interest for device miniaturization, microactuators, soft robots, biomedical engineering, and complex control systems.
Qingchuan Song +6 more
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Self-excited valve using a flat ring tube: Application to robotics
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 Complex and bulky driving systems are among the main issues for soft robots driven by pneumatic actuators. Self-excited oscillation is a promising approach for dealing with this problem: oscillatory actuation is generated from non-oscillatory input ...
Hiroyuki Nabae, Eigo Kitamura
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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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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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ActuatorsDrawing inspiration from the intricate soft structures found in nature, soft actuators possess the ability to incrementally execute complex tasks and adapt to dynamic and interactive environments.
Ke Ma +6 more
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A Modular Soft Gripper with Combined Pneu-Net Actuators
Actuators, 2023 Soft Pneumatic-Network (Pneu-Net) Actuators (SPAs) have been used extensively in making soft grippers, due to their simple driving forms and large bending deformation.
Xinjie Zhang +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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Design of Guided Bending Bellows Actuators for Soft Hand Function Rehabilitation Gloves
Actuators, 2022 This study developed a soft pneumatic glove actuated by elliptical cross-sectional guided bending bellows to augment finger-knuckle rehabilitation for patients with hand dysfunction.
Dehao Duanmu +4 more
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Electrocapillary Modulated Interfacial Tension Amplifies Liquid Metal Transduction
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This study presented an electrocapillary‐enhanced magnetohydrodynamic pumping strategy that harnesses the Lorentz force and interfacial tension modulation of liquid metal droplets to achieve amplified fluidic power. The system enabled low‐voltage, self‐oscillating fluidic transduction with enhanced pressure and flow generation, supporting compact ...
Saba Firouznia +3 more
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