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Stretchable electroadhesion for soft robots [PDF]

2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2014
With the ongoing rise of soft robots there emerges a need for new soft robotic technologies that can cope with hyper-flexibility and stretchability. In this paper, we describe our developments on enabling controllable adhesion, namely electroadhesion, for the use in soft robots.
Germann, Jürg Markus, Schubert, Bryan Edward, Floreano, Dario   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Soft robotic patterning of liquids

Scientific Reports, 2023
AbstractPatterning of two or more liquids, either homogeneous in each phase or mixed with particles (including biological matter, such as cells and proteins), by controlling their flow dynamics, is relevant to several applications. Examples include dynamic spatial confinement of liquids in microfluidic systems (such as lab-on-a-chip and organ-on-a-chip
Sasso, G, Pugno, N, Busfield, JJC, Carpi, F   +3 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Entropy‐Driven Design of Low‐Melting‐Point Alloys via Compositionally Complex Strategy

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Conventional low‐melting‐point alloys (LMPAs) are limited by a narrow compositional space and inherent property trade‐offs. This review presents an entropy‐driven design strategy that overcomes these limitations, ushering in a new class of low‐melting‐point compositionally complex alloys (LMCCAs).
Yinghui Shang, Jianxiang Zhao, Zhaoqi Chen, Hao Gong, Yinsen Yan, Junlei Tao, Yong Yang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Precharged Pneumatic Soft Actuators and Their Applications to Untethered Soft Robots

, 2018
The past decade has witnessed tremendous progress in soft robotics. Unlike most pneumatic-based methods, we present a new approach to soft robot design based on precharged pneumatics (PCP).
Chen, YH, Choi, SH
core   +1 more source

Elastic–Plastic Modeling and Experimental Characterization of Granular Jamming Actuators

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Granular jamming enables rapid switching between soft and rigid mechanical states. Here, a reduced‐order elastic‐perfectly‐plastic beam framework captures pressure‐dependent loading, unloading, residual deformation, and hysteresis in jammed beams, while matching three‐point bending experiments across materials and geometries. The framework links design
Saheli Patel, Prashant K. Purohit, Jordan R. Raney   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vision‐Based Online Key Point Estimation of Deformable Robots

Advanced Intelligent Systems
The precise control of soft and continuum robots requires knowledge of their shape, which has, in contrast to classical rigid robots, infinite degrees of freedom.
Hehui Zheng, Sebastian Pinzello, Barnabas Gavin Cangan, Thomas J. K. Buchner, Robert K. Katzschmann   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rotary 3D Printing With Integrated Electroplating

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
A rotary material extrusion platform integrates localized copper electroplating with printing and encapsulation to fabricate cylindrical polymer–metal structures containing fully embedded, low‐resistance conductive pathways that enable internal Joule heating and thermally activated shape‐memory responses.
Antonio Zagaria, Nicola Larovere, Moslem Mohammadi, Gianluca Percoco, Ali Zolfagharian, Gianni Stano   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A soft robot for agile and efficient marine locomotion

npj Robotics
Exploring underwater environments such as coral reefs and shipwrecks without disturbing fragile ecosystems requires a new class of underwater robots.
Robin F. Hall, Brighton A. Lee, Zachary D. Serocki, Timothy V. Jones, Cagdas D. Onal   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of Compensatory Movements Using a Supernumerary Robotic Hand for Upper Limb Assistance

Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020
Recently, extratheses, aka Supernumerary Robotic Limbs (SRLs), are emerging as a new trend in the field of assistive and rehabilitation devices. We proposed the SoftHand X, a system composed of an anthropomorphic soft hand extrathesis, with a gravity ...
Martina Rossero, Martina Rossero, Andrea S. Ciullo, Giorgio Grioli, Manuel G. Catalano, Antonio Bicchi, Antonio Bicchi   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of the Process Atmosphere During Hot Isostatic Pressing on the Near‐Surface Composition of an Additively Manufactured Austenitic High‐Interstitial Steel

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
A high interstital austenitic steel is additively manufactured and postdensified by HIP to eliminate gas porosity. Thereby, the loss of N and Mn in Ar HIP atmosphere is investigated. Further, HIP using N2 atmosphere is investigated which led to excessive nitride formation.
F. Großwendt, J. Hahn, J. Kimm, S. Weber, J. Lentz   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source