Reconfigurable Soft Robots by Building Blocks
Advanced Science, 2022 Soft robots are of increasing interest as they can cope with challenges that are poorly addressed by conventional rigid‐body robots (e.g., limited flexibility).
Mohamed G. B. Atia +4 more
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Review of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators and Their Applications in Soft Robots
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021 Due to the inherent rigidity of hard materials, the adaptability and flexibility of traditional robots are limited. Recently, soft robots became one of the most attractive areas.
Yaguang Guo +3 more
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Sliding Mode Control With PID Sliding Surface for Active Vibration Damping of Pneumatically Actuated Soft Robots [PDF]
IEEE Access, 2020 This paper proposes a novel active vibration damping mechanism for soft robots. In recent years, soft robots have gained increasing research attention for robotic researchers and industrial developers alike.
Ameer Hamza Khan, Shuai Li
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Printing Untethered Self‐Reconfigurable, Self‐Amputating Soft Robots from Recyclable Self‐Healing Fibers [PDF]
Advanced ScienceRegarding the challenge of self‐reconfiguration and self‐amputation of soft robots, existing studies mainly focus on modular soft robots and connection methods between modules.
Yidan Gao +7 more
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Progress, Challenges, and Prospects of Soft Robotics for Space Applications
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 The development of space robots is vital to broadening human cognitive boundaries. Space robots have been deployed in space science experiments, extravehicular operations, and deep space exploration.
Yongchang Zhang +5 more
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Origami-inspired folding assembly of dielectric elastomers for programmable soft robots
Microsystems & Nanoengineering, 2022 Origami has become an optimal methodological choice for creating complex three-dimensional (3D) structures and soft robots. The simple and low-cost origami-inspired folding assembly provides a new method for developing 3D soft robots, which is ideal for ...
Yanhua Sun +10 more
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Self-protection soft fluidic robots with rapid large-area self-healing capabilities
Nature Communications, 2023 Soft fluidic robots have attracted a lot of attention and have broad application prospects. However, poor fluidic power source and easy to damage have been hindering their development, while the lack of intelligent self-protection also brings ...
Wei Tang +13 more
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Dynamic Finite Element Modeling and Simulation of Soft Robots
Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 2022 Soft robots have become important members of the robot community with many potential applications owing to their unique flexibility and security embedded at the material level.
Liang Ding +6 more
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State of the art of soft robotic applications based on magneto-rheological materials [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2020 Soft robotics is a new and exciting field of robotics which heavily relies on compliant materials. Soft robots attempt to copy the motion of living organisms and their adaptation mechanisms to the environment. New efforts in this field have paved way for
Gutenko Denys
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Review of machine learning methods in soft robotics.
PLoS ONE, 2021 Soft robots have been extensively researched due to their flexible, deformable, and adaptive characteristics. However, compared to rigid robots, soft robots have issues in modeling, calibration, and control in that the innate characteristics of the soft ...
Daekyum Kim +13 more
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