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Elimination of Necking and Aspect Ratio Dependence in Uniaxial Actuators by Continuous Fiber Reinforcement

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A novel carbon fiber reinforcement for dielectric elastomer actuators enhances actuation force while decoupling electromechanical performance from the actuator's aspect ratio. Unlike conventional fiber reinforcements, it enables a uniform planar stretch state along the entire actuator.
Markus Koenigsdorff, Stefania Konstantinidi, Anett Endesfelder, Petr Osipov, Johannes Mersch, E.‐F. Markus Vorrath, Martina Zimmermann, Yves Perriard, Gerald Gerlach   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

FLDO-LKNet: An Efficient Method for Segmenting Stone Cells in Rubber Tree Bark with Robustness to Staining Differences and Morphological and Scale Changes. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Peng Y, Zhang Y, Zeng H, Zeng Y, Pan M, Peng Z, Liu Y, Xia Y, Wang P, He M, Hu Y.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Collision‐Resilient Winged Drones Enabled by Tensegrity Structures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Based on structures of birds such as the woodpeck, this article presents the collision‐resilient aerial robot, SWIFT. SWIFT leverages tensegrity structures in the fuselage and wings which allow it to undergo large deformations in a crash, without sustaining damage. Experiments show that SWIFT can reduce impact forces by 70% over conventional structures.
Omar Aloui, Raphael Zufferey, William Stewart, Mohammad Askari, Simon Jeger, Dario Floreano   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic sparse point voxel transformer for 3D point cloud instance segmentation of dormant apple trees. [PDF]

Plant Phenomics
Du R, Li S, Xu K, Cheng L, Jiang Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Nonlocomotory Robotic Strategies for Dynamic Rotation Control in Terrestrial Robots: A Review

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Terrestrial robots increasingly require rapid body rotation to maintain stability and agility in complex environments. This review shows nonlocomotory rotational control strategies that operate without ground contact, including reaction wheels, tails, bars, limbs, and thrusters.
Y. Liang, J. An, X. Zheng, D. Wang, S. Wang, X. Wang, P. Zhu, J. Pei, S. Li, J. Paripurana, Y. Han, Z. Tang, X. Gan, Q. He, X. Ma   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards Fixing Vessel Segmentation Breakage: A Systematic Review. [PDF]

J Clin Med
Goffart S, Delingette H, Chierici A, Föllmer B, Bakhouche A, Guo J, Lareyre F, Raffort J.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Continuum Mechanics Modeling of Flexible Spring Joints in Surgical Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A new mechanical model of a tendon‐actuated helical extension spring joint in surgical robots is built using Cosserat rod theory. The model can implicitly handle the unknown contacts between adjacent coils and numerically predict spring shapes from straight to significantly bent under actuation forces.
Botian Sun, Liang Zhang, Jianwen Zeng, Xuefeng Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

High-resolution UAV imagery-based instance segmentation for automatic counting of rubber trees across phenological seasons. [PDF]

Plant Phenomics
Zeng J, Lv M, Zhou G, Wang X, Liu E, Zhang H.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Muscle Control of an Extra Robotic Digit

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This study compares muscle‐ and movement‐based control for operating a supernumerary robotic thumb. While movement control performs better in the proposed tasks, muscle‐based (EMG) control promotes broader motor learning. The results highlight the promise and challenges of using biosignals for human augmentation, offering new insights into intuitive ...
Julien Russ, Lucy Dowdall, Francesco Cenciarelli, Kitty Goodridge, Mabel Ziman, Hristo Dimitrov, Danielle Clode, Tamar R. Makin   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anatomy-driven automated subsegmentation of pelvic and proximal femoral CT into clinically relevant subregions and landmarks. [PDF]

BMC Med Imaging
Rashed M, Alabdulrahman H, Westfechtel SD, Hildebrand F, Truhn D.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source