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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
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Insurance for autonomous underwater vehicles [PDF]

, 2007
The background and practice of insurance for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are examined. Key topics include: relationships between clients, brokers and underwriters; contract wording to provide appropriate coverage; and actions to take when an ...
Bose, N., Blidberg, D.R., Ferguson, J., Griffiths, G.   +3 more
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On–Off Switchable Micromotors for Use in Steerable Microvehicles

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Electrically controllable micromotors and microvehicles are developed by tuning the diffusion of the fuel. Self‐propelled micromotors using bubble propulsion show great promise for miniaturized devices with multiuse purposes such as cargo delivery and sensing. However, there is currently no method to electrically switch the micromotors on or off. Here,
Hugo Severinsson, Eswaran Murugasen, Jose G. Martinez, Edwin W. H. Jager   +3 more
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Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
wiley   +1 more source

Nonlinear H∞ Optimal Control Scheme for an Underwater Vehicle with Regional Function Formulation [PDF]

, 2013
A conventional region control technique cannot meet the demands for an accurate tracking performance in view of its inability to accommodate highly nonlinear system dynamics, imprecise hydrodynamic coefficients, and external disturbances.
Ismail, Zool, Zool H. Ismail, Matthew W. Dunnigan, Dunnigan, Mathew Walter   +3 more
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Multimodal Locomotion in Insect‐Inspired Microrobots: A Review of Strategies for Aerial, Surface, Aquatic, and Interfacial Motion

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review identifies key design considerations for insect‐inspired microrobots capable of multimodal locomotion. To draw inspiration, biological and robotic strategies for moving in air, on water surfaces, and underwater are examined, along with approaches for crossing the air–water interface.
Mija Jovchevska, Kaushik Jayaram, Nicole Xu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the reliability of the Autosub autonomous underwater vehicle [PDF]

, 2003
As autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) enter operational service an assessment of their reliability is timely. Using the Autosub AUV as an example, several design issues affecting reliability are discussed, followed by an analysis of recorded faults ...
Stevenson, P., Challenor, P.G., P. Stevenson, N. W. Millard, Griffiths, G., G. Griffiths, McPhail, S.D., Millard, N.W., S. D. Mcphail   +8 more
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A survey on terrain based navigation for AUVs [PDF]

, 2010
Terrain Based Navigation (TBN) is a method rootedto the early cruise missile navigation systems, when GPS wasnot yet available. For decades, TBN has been applied as acomplementary system to INS navigation for Unmanned AerialVehicles (UAV).
Petillot, Yvan, Wilson, P.A., Philip Wilson, Petillot, Yvan; id_orcid, Yvan Petillot, Wilson, P. A., Carreno, Sebastian, Ridao, Pere, Sebastian Carreno, Wilson, Philip, Pere Ridao   +10 more
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A Soft Robotic Fish With a Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Body and Negative Stiffness Spine

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This work introduces a bio‐mimetic soft robotic fish driven by fiber‐reinforced dielectric elastomer actuators integrated as its body. By prestretching this active skin against a flexible spine, a negative stiffness system is created, enabling large‐amplitude bending.
Markus Koenigsdorff, Simon Holzer, Stefania Konstantinidi, Yoan Civet, Yves Perriard   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Complete Coverage Path Planning in an Unknown Underwater Environment Based on D-S Data Fusion Real-Time Map Building

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2012
A real-time map-building system is proposed for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to build a map of an unknown underwater environment. The system, using the AUV's onboard sensor information, includes a neurodynamics model proposed for complete ...
Mingzhong Yan, Daqi Zhu, Simon X. Yang
doaj   +1 more source