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Variable Stiffness Flexure Structures Enabled by Phase‐Change Gallium and Adhesive Interfacial Locking for Soft Robotic Applications

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
A flexure‐based variable stiffness structure is developed by integrating phase‐change modulation and adhesive interfacial locking of gallium. The design enables a wide stiffness variability, transitioning from soft, flexible behavior to rigid, load‐supporting performance.
Sungjin Kim, Sohee John Yoon, Yong‐Lae Park   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Additive Gaussian Process Regression for Predictive Design of High‐Performance, Printable Silicones

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
A chemistry‐aware design framework for tuning printable polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) for vat photopolymerization (VPP) is developed using additive Gaussian process (GP) modeling. Polymer network mechanics informs variable groupings, feasible formulation constraints, and interaction variables.
Roxana Carbonell, Martha Leach, Hongtao Song, Carolyn Seepersad   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Soft Robots in Surgery

, 2016
Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) represents the gold standard in the majority of abdominal operations, although some fundamental limitations are still present and are far to be really addressed despite emerging robotic solutions. Flexible endoscopes can exploit their high flexibility to reach the surgical target while being inserted remotely or by a ...
Cianchetti M., Menciassi A.
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Air‐Pressure–Actuated Vibroacoustic Metamaterial With Tunable Bandgap: Design, Modeling, and Characterization

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
This article presents the design, modeling, and characterization of air‐pressure–actuated programmable vibroacoustic metamaterials (PVAMM). The study focuses on leveraging air pressure to dynamically tune resonance frequencies for effective noise attenuation.
William Kaal, Michael M. Becker, Sarah C. L. Fischer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a Soft Science of Soft Robots. A Call for a Place for Aesthetics in Soft Robotics Research

ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023
The position paper presents an argument that aesthetic theory and practice are pertinent to the rapidly expanding field of soft robotics. Soft robotics as an aesthetic phenomenon is introduced and contextualized drawing on the author's own research and practice.
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Additive Manufacturing of Continuous Fibre Reinforced Composites: Process, Characterisation, Modelling, and Sustainability

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Additive manufacturing provides precise control over the placement of continuous fibres within polymer matrices, enabling customised mechanical performance in composite components. This article explores processing strategies, mechanical testing, and modelling approaches for additive manufactured continuous fibre‐reinforced composites.
Cherian Thomas, Amir Hosein Sakhaei
wiley   +1 more source

Locomotion analysis and optimization of actinomorphic robots with soft arms actuated by shape memory alloy wires

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2018
This article presents the locomotion analysis and optimization of actinomorphic soft robots, which are composed of soft arms actuated by shape memory alloy wires.
Chunshan Liu, Erbao Dong, Min Xu, Gursel Alici, Jie Yang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Soft Mechanical‐Electrical Logic Using Liquid Metal‐Filled 3D‐Printed Architectures

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
We present 3D‐printed soft mechanical–electrical logic elements that use liquid metal–filled silicone tubes actuated by thermoplastic polyurethane/polylactic acid (TPU/PLA) architectures to produce Boolean operations. Complementary normally open and normally closed unit cells perform repeatable binary transitions and can be combined into more complex ...
Christoph Lehmann, Ryan Kalgreen, Laura M. Comella   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Experimental High‐Throughput Approach for the Screening of Hard Magnet Materials

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
An entire workflow for the high‐throughput characterization and analysis of compositionally graded magnetic films is presented. Characterization protocols, data management tools and data analysis approaches are illustrated with test case Sm(Fe, V)12 based films.
William Rigaut, Pierre Le Berre, Hamdi Jaballah, Lukas Fink, Victor Poline, Richard Haettel, Stéphane Grenier, Gilbert Chahine, Ewen Bellec, Guillaume Buatier, Wilfried Hortschitz, Santa Pile, Thomas Schrefl, Nils Blanc, Yuan Hong, Thibaut Devillers, Nora M. Dempsey   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design Optimization of a Hybrid-Driven Soft Surgical Robot with Biomimetic Constraints

Biomimetics
The current study investigated the geometry optimization of a hybrid-driven (based on the combination of air pressure and tendon tension) soft robot for use in robot-assisted intra-bronchial intervention.
Majid Roshanfar, Javad Dargahi, Amir Hooshiar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source