Safely catching aerial micro-robots in mid-air using an open-source aerial robot with soft gripper
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 This work focuses on catching safely an aerial micro-robot in mid-air using another aerial robot that is equipped with a universal soft gripper. To avoid aerodynamic disturbances such as downwash, that would push the target robot away, we follow a ...
Zhichao Liu +3 more
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Worm‐Inspired Soft Robots Enable Adaptable Pipeline and Tunnel Inspection
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022 The inspection, maintenance, and repair of pipeline and tunnel infrastructure have motivated the increasing research in the development of suitable robots with high flexibility, good adaptability, and large load capacity.
Xiaomin Liu +4 more
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A soft crawling robot with a modular design based on electrohydraulic actuator
iScience, 2023 Summary: The soft structure of creatures without a rigid internal skeleton can easily adapt to any atypical environment. In the same context, robots with soft structures can change their shape to adapt to complex and varied surroundings.
Sohyun Kim, Youngsu Cha
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Evolution of Fin Undulation on a Physical Knifefish-inspired Soft Robot [PDF]
, 2018 Soft robotics is a growing field of research and one of its challenges is how to efficiently design a controller for a soft morphology.This paper presents a marine soft robot inspired by the ghost knifefish that swims on the water surface by using an ...
Jørgensen, Jonas +2 more
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Biomimetics, 2019 In Nature, the adaptability of many organisms and their capability to survive in challenging and dynamically changing environments are closely linked to their characteristics and the morphology of their body parts [...]
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Solar‐Driven Soft Robots [PDF]
Advanced Science, 2021 AbstractStimuli‐responsive materials have been lately employed in soft robotics enabling new classes of robots that can emulate biological systems. The untethered operation of soft materials with high power light, magnetic field, and electric field has been previously demonstrated.
Seyed M. Mirvakili +3 more
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Design and Applications of Soft Actuators Based on Digital Light Processing (DLP) 3D Printing
IEEE Access, 2023 Compared with rigid robots, soft robots have the advantages of strong environmental adaptability, good human-robot interaction, and simple control systems; therefore, soft actuators have been widely studied in recent years.
Jingjing Wan, Lechen Sun, Tianhao Du
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Compliance adaptation of an intrinsically soft ankle rehabilitation robot driven by pneumatic muscles [PDF]
, 2017 Pneumatic muscles (PMs)-driven robots become more and more popular in medical and rehabilitation field as the actuators are intrinsically complaint and thus are safer for patients than traditional rigid robots.
Ai, Q +4 more
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Design and Modeling of a New Biomimetic Soft Robotic Jellyfish Using IPMC-Based Electroactive Polymers [PDF]
, 2019 Smart materials and soft robotics have been seen to be particularly well-suited for developing biomimetic devices and are active fields of research. In this study, the design and modeling of a new biomimetic soft robot is described. Initial work was made
Kim, Kwang J., Olsen, Zakai J.
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Autonomous Soft Robotic Fish Capable of Escape Maneuvers Using Fluidic Elastomer Actuators [PDF]
, 2014 In this work we describe an autonomous soft-bodied robot that is both self-contained and capable of rapid, continuum-body motion. We detail the design, modeling, fabrication, and control of the soft fish, focusing on enabling the robot to perform rapid ...
Marchese, Andrew Dominic +2 more
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