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Automatic Generation of Locomotion Patterns for Soft Modular Reconfigurable Robots

Applied Sciences, 2019
In recent years, soft modular robots have become popular among researchers with the development of soft robotics. However, the absence of a visual 3D simulation platform for soft modular robots hold back the development of the field.
Xin Sui, Hegao Cai, Dongyang Bie, Yu Zhang, Jie Zhao, Yanhe Zhu   +5 more
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Dynamic Control of Soft Robots [PDF]

, 2017
International audienceSoft robots present several advantages. However, one of the main challenges of this new field of robotics is to control these robots.
Thieffry, Maxime, Kruszewski, Alexandre, Goury, Olivier, Duriez, Christian, Guerra, Thierry-Marie   +4 more
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Soft Ultrathin Electronics Innervated Adaptive Fully Soft Robots

, 2018
Soft robots outperform the conventional hard robots on significantly enhanced safety, adaptability, and complex motions. The development of fully soft robots, especially fully from smart soft materials to mimic soft animals, is still nascent. In addition,
Jin Chen, Chen, Jin, Li, Yuhang, Verduzco, Rafael, Chengjun Wang, Song, Jizhou, Kim, Hojin, Kyoseung Sim, Rao, Zhoulyu, Weiqiu Chen, Yuhang Li, Jizhou Song, Rafael Verduzco, Yu, Cunjiang, Hojin Kim, Zhoulyu Rao, Wang, Chengjun, Sim, Kyoseung, Cunjiang Yu, Chen, Weiqiu   +19 more
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Stimuli-responsive polymer-based bioinspired soft robots

Micro and Nano Systems Letters, 2023
Soft robotics enables various applications in certain environments where conventional rigid robotics cannot deliver the same performance due to their form factor and stiffness. Animals use their soft external organs to carry out activities in response to
Swati Panda, Sugato Hajra, P. Mary Rajaitha, Hoe Joon Kim   +3 more
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Compliance model-based contact force control for soft continuum robots

Soft robots are increasingly being explored and developed in various settings that demand safe and adaptable interactions between robots and their environments.
Shi, Jialei, Wurdemann, Helge, Abad, Sara-Adela, Dai, Jiansheng   +3 more
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Soft Robot Proprioception Using Unified Soft Body Encoding and Recurrent Neural Network

, 2023
Compared with rigid robots, soft robots are inherently compliant and have advantages in the tasks requiring flexibility and safety. But sensing the high dimensional body deformation of soft robots is a challenge.
Zheng Wang, Wang, Z, James Lam, Xiaojiao Chen, Su, Y, Yinyin Su, Li, J, Lam, J, Zhang, R, Chen, X, Jing Li, Wang, L, Liangliang Wang, Runzhi Zhang   +13 more
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A Review of Soft Robots

CoRR, 2019
Traditional robots have rigid links and structures that limit their ability to interact with the dynamics of their immediate environment. For example, conventional robot manipulators with rigid links can only manipulate objects using specific end effectors.
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Closed-loop 4D-printed soft robots

Materials & Design, 2020
Soft robotics is a recent and rapidly growing field of research that encompasses emerging advances in functional materials, fabrication, modelling, and performance control with important applications in the manipulation of fragile objects.
Ali Zolfagharian, Akif Kaynak, Abbas Kouzani   +2 more
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Aquatic Soft Robots: Workshop

, 2019
The extraordinary and vastly unexplored capabilities of soft robots are attracting researchers from deeply heterogeneous branches. Marine soft robots place themselves in a niche hot topic with huge potential and vast applications. The workshop will focus
Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado, Giuseppe Suaria, Markus Nemitz, Simona Aracri   +3 more
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Design of Soft Robots: A Review of Methods and Future Opportunities for Research

Machines
Soft robots present resilient and adaptable systems characterized by deformable bodies inspired by biological systems. In this paper, we comprehensively review existing design methods for soft robots.
Behzad Hasanshahi, Lin Cao, Ki-Young Song, Wenjun Zhang   +3 more
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