Biology and bioinspiration of soft robotics: Actuation, sensing, and system integration
iScience, 2021 Summary: Organisms in nature grow with senses, nervous, and actuation systems coordinated in ingenious ways to sustain metabolism and other essential life activities. The understanding of biological structures and functions guide the construction of soft
Luquan Ren +7 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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Electroactive Artificial Muscles Based on Functionally Antagonistic Core–Shell Polymer Electrolyte Derived from PS-b-PSS Block Copolymer [PDF]
, 2018 Electroactive ionic soft actuators, a type of artificial muscles containing a polymer electrolyte membrane sandwiched between two electrodes, have been intensively investigated owing to their potential applications to bioinspired soft robotics, wearable ...
Jun, Kiwoo +9 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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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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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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Discrete Cosserat Approach for Multi-Section Soft Robots Dynamics
, 2017 In spite of recent progress, soft robotics still suffers from a lack of unified modeling framework. Nowadays, the most adopted model for the design and control of soft robots is the piece-wise constant curvature model, with its consolidated benefits and ...
Boyer, Frederic +3 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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