A bistable soft gripper with mechanically embedded sensing and actuation for fast closed-loop grasping [PDF]
, 2019 Soft robotic grippers are shown to be high effective for grasping unstructured objects with simple sensing and control strategies. However, they are still limited by their speed, sensing capabilities and actuation mechanism.
Abidi, Syed Haider +4 more
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Soft Hybrid Wave Spring Actuators
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2020 Soft continuum manipulators, inspired by squid tentacles and elephant trunks, show promise in allowing robots to safely interact with complex environments.
Erik H. Skorina, Cagdas D. Onal
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A wearable wrist haptic display for motion tracking and force feedback in the operational space
Wearable Technologies, 2021 Force feedback is often beneficial for robotic teleoperation, as it enhances the user’s remote perception. Over the years, many kinesthetic haptic displays (KHDs) have been proposed for this purpose, which have different types of interaction and feedback,
Marco Laghi +3 more
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Embedded fuzzy logic controller for positive and negative pressure control in pneumatic soft robots [PDF]
, 2018 A key challenge in soft robotics is controlling the large deformation experienced as a result of high compliance nature of soft robots. In this work, a software control strategy for regulating the amount of internal positive and negative air pressure ...
Hayashi, Yoshikatsu +2 more
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A Supernumerary Soft Robotic Limb for Reducing Hand-Arm Vibration Syndromes Risks
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 The most common causes of the risk of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSD) have been identified as joint overloading, bad postures, and vibrations.
Andrea S. Ciullo +4 more
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Geometry-based customization of bending modalities for 3D-printed soft pneumatic actuators [PDF]
, 2018 In this work, we propose a novel type of 3D-printed soft pneumatic actuator that allows geometry-based customization of bending modalities. While motion in the 3D-space has been achieved for several types of soft actuators, only 2D-bending has been ...
Rosalia, Luca +2 more
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Bio-inspired Tensegrity Soft Modular Robots [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper, we introduce a design principle to develop novel soft modular robots based on tensegrity structures and inspired by the cytoskeleton of living cells.
A Burks +12 more
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An Inverse Dynamics Approach to Control Lyapunov Functions [PDF]
, 2020 With the goal of moving towards implementation of increasingly dynamic behaviors on underactuated systems, this paper presents an optimization-based approach for solving full-body dynamics based controllers on underactuated bipedal robots.
abe, betts, murray, sastry, sentis
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Recognising the Clothing Categories from Free-Configuration Using Gaussian-Process-Based Interactive Perception [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper, we propose a Gaussian Process- based interactive perception approach for recognising highly- wrinkled clothes. We have integrated this recognition method within a clothes sorting pipeline for the pre-washing stage of an autonomous ...
Aragon-Camarasa, Gerardo +3 more
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Editorial: Soft Robotic Modeling and Control: Bringing Together Articulated Soft Robots and Soft-Bodied Robots [PDF]
The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2021 Learning & Autonomous ...
Della Santina, C. (author) +3 more
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