The last decade (2010-2021) has witnessed the evolution of robotic applications in orthodontics. This review scopes and analyzes published orthodontic literature in eight different domains: (1) robotic dental assistants; (2) robotics in diagnosis and...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
Jun 15, 2021
BACKGROUND: Soft pneumatic robots have shown great promises in hand rehabilitation systems as alternatives to conventional rigid systems. However, their application is limited to clinical rehabilitation programs due to their dependency on large-sized...
Soft gripping provides the potential for high performance in challenging tasks through morphological computing; however, design explorations are limited by a combination of a difficulty in generating useful models and use of laborious fabrication tec...
In this work, we proposed an inflatable particle-jamming gripper based on a novel grasping strategy of integrating the positive pressure and partial filling, in which the positive pressure increases the contact area between the gripper and objects, a...
Robotic grasping has become increasingly important in many application areas such as industrial manufacturing and logistics. Because of the diversity and uncertainty of objects and environments, common grippers with one single grasping mode face diff...
Fiber-reinforced soft pneumatic actuators (FR-SPAs) are among the most successful soft actuators in the soft robotics community considering their structural strength, motion range, and force output. Inspired by the pneumatic artificial muscle, the be...
Conventional grippers fall behind their human counterparts as they do not have integrated sensing capabilities. Piezoresistive and capacitive sensors are popular choices because of their design and sensitivity, but they cannot measure pressure and sl...
In this article, a novel actuator called armor-based stable force pneumatic artificial muscle (AS-PAM) is presented. AS-PAM has a sealed chamber made of polygonal parts and film, which helps the actuator to be lightweight (∼100 g) and achieve a large...
A lightweight soft gripper for envelope grasping is proposed. The main component of the gripper is a spherical latex superelastic membrane whose material properties allow a grabbing function to be realized. The grasping process includes the expansion...
Elevating stiffness without compromising compliance and agility is a key problem for soft finger applications, especially for articulate ones. Inspired by human finger, a multijoint soft finger with dual morphing through active/passive variable rigid...
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