Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Dec 28, 2022
This paper presents a novel bistable gripper inspired by the closure motion found in the jaw of a hummingbird. With a bistable characteristic, the robotic gripper can grasp objects rapidly without applying continuous external force. The bistable grip...
Scientific reports
Nov 15, 2022
This study investigates an adaptive fault-tolerant control (FTC) for hypersonic flight vehicles (HFVs) with incipient faults and non-Gaussian stochastic output attitudes. In the nonlinear HFV dynamics, a hybrid fuzzy approximation method achieves the...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Oct 5, 2022
Energy saving in palletizing robot is a fundamental problem in the field of industrial robots. However, the palletizing robot often suffers from the problems of high energy consumption and lacking flexibility. In this work, we introduce a novel diffe...
Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology
Aug 12, 2022
To look for the reason why the biped animal in nature can run with such high speed and to design a bionic biped prototype which can behave the high speed running and jumping ability, this paper takes the fastest bipedal animal in nature: ostrich as t...
IEEE journal of translational engineering in health and medicine
Aug 4, 2022
BACKGROUND: The hand motor function is lost and activities in daily life (ADLs) are affected due to some illnesses such as stroke and hemiplegia. As a coping way, we present a wearable rehabilitation glove with the bionic actuator for restoring the h...
Computational intelligence and neuroscience
May 6, 2022
A general pneumatic soft gripper is proposed in this paper. Combined with the torque balance theory, the mathematical theoretical model of bending deformation of soft gripper is established based on Yeoh constitutive model and classical differential ...
Soft robotics
Mar 7, 2022
Twisted and coiled actuators (TCAs), which are light but capable of producing significant power, were developed in recent times. After their introduction, there have been numerous improvements in performance, including development of techniques such ...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Feb 8, 2022
Artificial fish-like robots developed to date often focus on the external morphology of fish and have rarely addressed the contribution of the structure and morphology of biological muscle. However, biological studies have proven that fish utilize th...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Dec 27, 2021
The development of "large display, high performance and low cost" in the FPD industry demands glass substrates to be "larger and thinner". Therefore, the requirements of handling robots are developing in the direction of large scale, high speed, and ...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Nov 12, 2021
Most existing wall-climbing robots have a fixed range of load capacity and a step distance that is small and mostly immutable. It is therefore difficult for them to adapt to a discontinuous wall with particularly large gaps. Based on a modular design...