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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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Development of intelligent McKibben actuator [PDF]
, 2005 The aim of this study is to develop an intelligent McKibben actuator with an integrated soft displacement sensor inside, so that displacement of this actuator can be controlled without having any extra devices attached.
S. Wakimoto +5 more
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Injury Evaluation of Human-Robot Impacts [PDF]
, 2008 Currently, large efforts are unertaken to bring robotic applications to domestic environments. Especially physical human-robot cooperation is a major concern and various design and control methodologies were developed on the way to achieve this task.
Hirzinger, Gerd +9 more
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A Resilient, Untethered Soft Robot [PDF]
, 2015 A pneumatically powered, fully untethered mobile soft robot is described. Composites consisting of silicone elastomer, polyaramid fabric, and hollow glass microspheres were used to fabricate a sufficiently large soft robot to carry the miniature air ...
Mosadegh, Bobak +7 more
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Framework for Armature-Based 3D Shape Reconstruction of Sensorized Soft Robots in eXtended Reality
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 Soft robots are typically intended to operate in highly unpredictable and unstructured environments. Although their soft bodies help them to passively conform to their environment, the execution of specific tasks within such environments often requires ...
Elvis I. A. Borges +4 more
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Advanced Materials, 2018 AbstractAdvances in soft robotics, materials science, and stretchable electronics have enabled rapid progress in soft grippers. Here, a critical overview of soft robotic grippers is presented, covering different material sets, physical principles, and device architectures.
Jun Shintake +3 more
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Modelling and Control for Soft Finger Manipulation and Human-Robot Interaction [PDF]
, 2010 One of the greatest challenges of humanoid robotics is to provide a robotic systems with autonomous and dextrous skills. Dextrous manipulation skills, for personal and service robots in unstructured environments, are of fundamental importance, in order ...
Ficuciello, Fanny
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The Role of the Robot Mass and Velocity in Physical Human-Robot Interaction - Part II: Constrained Blunt Impacts [PDF]
, 2008 Accidents occurring with classical industrial robots often lead to fatal injuries. Presumably, this is to a great extent caused by the possibility of clamping the human in the confined workspace of the robot.
Hirzinger, Gerd +7 more
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A Soft Growing Robot Using Hyperelastic Material
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 Soft growing robots have received considerable attention because of their unique locomotion. However, the use of a single material for their manufacturing causes numerous problems, because each part of the robot requires different characteristics.
Nam Gyun Kim, Jee-Hwan Ryu
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Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2022 Feet play an important role in the adaptive, versatile, and stable locomotion of legged creatures. Accordingly, several robotic research studies have used biological feet as the inspiration for the design of robot feet in traversing complex terrains ...
Muhammad Bilal Khan +4 more
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