Vine Robots: Design, Teleoperation, and Deployment for Navigation and Exploration
, 2020 A new class of continuum robots has recently been explored, characterized by tip extension, significant length change, and directional control. Here, we call this class of robots "vine robots," due to their similar behavior to plants with the growth ...
Blumenschein, Laura H. +9 more
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Enacting the Soft Automaton: Empirical Ontologies of Two Soft Robots from Technical Research and Media Art [PDF]
, 2018 This paper examines two soft robots from technical research and media art respectively and the practices through which they come into being. Departing from a juxtaposition of video presentations of the two robots, the empirical ontologies of a soft robot
Arnold T, Scheutz M +25 more
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Safety experiments for small robots investigating the potential of soft materials in mitigating the harm to the head due to impacts [PDF]
, 2019 There is a growing interest in social robots to be considered in the therapy of children with autism due to their effectiveness in improving the outcomes.
Alhaddad, Ahmad Yaser +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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Kinematics Modeling of a Twisted and Coiled Polymer-Based Elastomer Soft Robot
IEEE Access, 2019 Twisted and coiled polymer (TCP) is increasingly used for soft robots due to its good compaction. However, the lack of kinematics model of elastomer soft robots limits precise control.
Jiali Bao, Weihang Chen, Jing Xu
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Sensors, 2023 Soft robots are interesting examples of hyper-redundancy in robotics. However, the nonlinear continuous dynamics of these robots and the use of hyper-elastic and visco-elastic materials make modeling these robots more complicated.
Mahboubeh Keyvanara +2 more
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Combining a hierarchical task network planner with a constraint satisfaction solver for assembly operations involving routing problems in a multi-robot context [PDF]
, 2018 This work addresses the combination of a symbolic hierarchical task network planner and a constraint satisfaction solver for the vehicle routing problem in a multi-robot context for structure assembly operations.
Alarcón, Francisco +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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Self‐Sensing Robotic Structures from Architectured Particle Assemblies
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 The tight coupling of shape transformation, stiffness tuning, and self‐sensing that biological organisms exhibit has long served as inspiration for next‐generation soft robots.
Xudong Yang +8 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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