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Energy Efficient Control of Robots with Variable Stiffness Actuators [PDF]
, 2010 Variable stiffness actuators realize a particular class of actuators characterized by the property that the apparent output stiffness can be changed independently of the output position.
Raffaella Carloni +6 more
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A novel design of shape-memory alloy-based soft robotic gripper with variable stiffness
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2020 Soft robotic grippers with compliance have great superiority in grabbing objects with irregular shape or fragility compared with traditional rigid grippers.
Mingfang Liu +3 more
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Novel Design and Modeling of a Soft Pneumatic Actuator Based on Antagonism Mechanism
Actuators, 2020 The soft actuator possesses the characteristics of flexibility, environmental adaptability, and human–machine interaction. Firstly, aiming to resolve the limitation of variable stiffness performance of a traditional pneumatic artificial muscle (PAM ...
Yinglong Chen +2 more
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.This article presents the design, modeling, and characterization of air‐pressure–actuated programmable vibroacoustic metamaterials (PVAMM). The study focuses on leveraging air pressure to dynamically tune resonance frequencies for effective noise attenuation.
William Kaal +2 more
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Programmable and Variable‐Stiffness Robotic Skins for Pneumatic Actuation
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 Pneumatic soft actuators possess relatively fast response, inherent high flexibility, and achieve extraordinary shape morphing under large deformations. Conventionally, the entire body of soft pneumatic robots needs to be designed for specific applications.
Weinan Gao +8 more
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Fully-Printable Soft Actuator with Variable Stiffness by Phase Transition and Hydraulic Regulations
Actuators, 2021 Actuators with variable stiffness have vast potential in the field of compliant robotics. Morphological shape changes in the actuators are possible, while they retain their structural strength.
Tingchen Liao +4 more
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Anthropomorphic Soft Robotics - from Torque Control to Variable Intrinsic Compliance
, 2011 The paper gives an overview on the developments at the German Aerospace enter DLR towards anthropomorphic robots which not only try to approach the force and velocity performance of humans, but also have similar safety and robustness features based on a ...
Hirzinger, Gerd +21 more
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Additive manufacturing provides precise control over the placement of continuous fibres within polymer matrices, enabling customised mechanical performance in composite components. This article explores processing strategies, mechanical testing, and modelling approaches for additive manufactured continuous fibre‐reinforced composites.
Cherian Thomas, Amir Hosein Sakhaei
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IEEE Access, 2021 Stiffness adjustability is one of the key characteristics that help humans achieve safe and reliable motions. This paper aims to realize the simultaneous position-stiffness control of an antagonistic joint driven by a type of super-coiled polymer (SCP ...
Tuan Luong +7 more
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A Magnetically-Actuated Coiling Soft Robot With Variable Stiffness
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023 Soft and flexible magnetic robots have gained significant attention in the past decade. These robots are fabricated using magnetically-active elastomers, are capable of large deformations, and are actuated remotely thus allowing for small robot size. This combination of properties is appealing to the minimally invasive surgical community, potentially ...
Lloyd, Peter +7 more
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