Tendon-Driven Variable-Stiffness Pneumatic Soft Gripper Robot
Robotics, 2023 In recent times, the soft robotics field has been attracting significant research focus owing to its high level of manipulation capabilities unlike traditional rigid robots, which gives room for increasing use in other areas.
Safeh Clinton Mawah, Yong-Jai Park
doaj +1 more source
A novel energy-efficient rotational variable stiffness actuator [PDF]
, 2011 This paper presents the working principle, the design and realization of a novel rotational variable stiffness actuator, whose stiffness can be varied independently of its output angular position.
Rao, Shodhan +7 more
core +1 more source
Design and Experiment of an Anthropomorphic Robot Hand for Variable Grasping Stiffness
IEEE Access, 2021 This paper introduces an anthropomorphic robot hand that has variable grasping stiffness to unknown objects without damage. The robot hand has four fingers, 13 DoFs (Degrees of Freedom) with three SEA (Series Elastic Actuator) modules in the index ...
Hyeonjun Park +3 more
doaj +1 more source
Research and analysis of resonant and stiffness of cylindrical dielectric elastomer actuator
Materials Research Express, 2021 Dielectric elastomer actuators draw great interest in the emerging technology of soft actuations. The drifting of resonance frequency and variable stiffness are commonly existed in soft actuations.
Jin Li +4 more
doaj +1 more source
Compact Variable Stiffness Actuator for Surgical Robots
Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, 2022 Highly rigid surgical robots are capable of precise positioning; however, there is a risk of injury to the surrounding organs owing to undesired contact. To solve this problem, surgeons can change their stiffness according to the desired motion by contracting and relaxing the muscles. Therefore, surgical robots that can change their stiffness according
Toshiro Osaka +4 more
openaire +1 more source
Elastic Actuator Design Based on Bending of Cylindrical Beam for Robotic Applications
Actuators, 2020 The lack of suitable actuators has hampered the development of high-performance machines or robots that can compete with living organisms in terms of motion, safety, and energy efficiency.
Reis Murat +2 more
doaj +1 more source
MECHANICAL VIBRATION CONTROL USING VARIABLE STIFFNESS ACTUATOR
Journal of Engineering, 2006 Active control strategy had been used for controlling the vibration response, with considering the simplification in the design and keep away from complexity and high cost in order to extend the actual application of the active control systems.
Bahaa Ibraheem Kazem, Yarub Omer Naji
doaj +1 more source
Time-Energy Optimal Trajectory Planning for Variable Stiffness Actuated Robot
IEEE Access, 2019 A variable stiffness actuator is inspired by the human motor control and is the most popular actuator used to exploit the human performance and human-like motion.
Chen Ji, Minxiu Kong, Ruifeng Li
doaj +1 more source
Design and performance analysis of reconfigurable variable stiffness compliant actuator
, 2023 Compliant actuators can achieve safe interaction between robots and humans due to their inherent flexibility, and have strong environmental adaptability.
Bai, Shaoping +4 more
core +1 more source
Detachable Soft Actuators with Tunable Stiffness Based on Wire Jamming
Applied Sciences, 2022 The integration of variable stiffness materials and structures into soft robots is a popular trend, allowing soft robots to switch between soft and rigid states in different situations.
Long Bai +4 more
doaj +1 more source