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VARIABLE STIFFNESS HAND PROSTHESIS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
Investigación & Desarrollo, 2017 Prosthetics is an important field in engineering due to the large number of amputees worldwide and the associated problems such as limited functionality of the state of the art.
S. Cecilia Tapia-Siles +2 more
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Design and Analysis of a Novel Variable Stiffness Joint Based on Leaf Springs
Applied SciencesIn response to challenges like the complexity and limited scalability of existing variable stiffness joints, a novel variable stiffness joint, based on leaf spring elements, is introduced in this paper. The joint stiffness can be adjusted in real time by
Caidong Wang +4 more
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Counterion Dependent Side‐Chain Relaxation Stiffens a Chemically Doped Thienothiophene Copolymer
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Oxidation of a thienothiophene copolymer, p(g3TT‐T2), via different doping strategies and dopant molecules resulted in materials with similar oxidation levels and a high electrical conductivity of ≈100 S cm−1. However, mechanical properties varied significantly, with sub‐glass transition temperatures and elastic moduli spanning from –44°C to –3°C and ...
Mariavittoria Craighero +12 more
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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 +6 more
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Structure‐Guided Dynamical Mechanics in Bioinspired Double Twisted Laminated Thin Films
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This work explores a dynamic mechanistic study of crack propagation and puncture testing via real‐time monitoring of crack initiation, propagation, and termination through nature‐inspired single and double twisted architectures fabricated from cellulose nanocrystals.
Justin Brackenridge +4 more
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Simple shock isolator synthesis with bilinear stiffness and variable damping [PDF]
, 1965 Simple shock isolator synthesis with bilinear stiffness and variable ...
Schmit, L. A., Jr., Rybicki, E. F.
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Biodegradable and Biocompatible Functional Polymers for Biomedical Applications
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Biodegradable and biocompatible functional polymers integrate electrical, mechanical, and stimuli‐responsive functionalities while enabling programmed degradation under physiological conditions. This review introduces recent advances in conductive, shape‐memory, self‐healing, photocurable, and adhesive polymer systems, emphasizing material design ...
Won Bae Han +5 more
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Bipedal Walking Gait with Variable Stiffness Knees
, 2020 -The Segmented Spring-Loaded Inverted Pendulum model is analysed, and it is shown that it exhibits walking gait. We propose a control architecture that exploits control of the knee stiffness to provide robustness of the system with respect to changes in ...
Raffaella Carloni, Wesley Roozing
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Strong Lead‐Free Bioinspired Piezoceramics for Durable Energy Transducers
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.We fabricated brick‐and‐mortar lead‐free piezoceramics with Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3 monocrystal platelets as bricks and amorphous silica as mortar. The alignment of the bricks and the presence of the amorphous silica led to anisotropic residual stresses. These residual stresses increase the samples toughness, strength and durability while the brick alignment ...
Ruxue Yang +12 more
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Design and Verification of a Compact Variable Stiffness Actuator With a Very Large Range of Stiffness [PDF]
, 2014 Current conventional robots require high stiffness joints to provide absolute positioning accuracy in free space which also causes problems when operating in constrained space. To circumvent these problems, Variable Stiffness Actuators (VSAs) can be used
Garces, Daniel
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