Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Sep 1, 2022
Wireless miniature soft actuators are promising for various potential high-impact applications in medical, robotic grippers, and artificial muscles. However, these miniature soft actuators are currently constrained by a small output force and low wor...
Nature communications
Aug 29, 2022
Among kinds of flexible tactile sensors, piezoelectric tactile sensor has the advantage of fast response for dynamic force detection. However, it suffers from low sensitivity at high-frequency dynamic stimuli. Here, inspired by finger structure-rigid...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jul 28, 2022
The widely used stability parameter, the zero moment point (ZMP), which is usually defined on the ground, is redefined, in this paper, in two different ways to acquire a more general form that allows its application to systems that are not supported ...
Nature communications
Jul 7, 2022
Biohybrid is a newly emerging and promising approach to construct soft robotics and soft machines with novel functions, high energy efficiency, great adaptivity and intelligence. Despite many unique advantages of biohybrid systems, it is well known t...
IEEE transactions on cybernetics
Jul 4, 2022
A spatial iterative learning control (sILC) method is proposed for a robot to learn a desired path in an unknown environment. When interacting with the environment, the robot initially starts with a predefined trajectory so an interaction force is ge...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jun 27, 2022
This paper mainly focuses on various types of robots driven or actuated by shape memory alloy (SMA) element in the last decade which has created the potential functionality of SMA in robotics technology, that is classified and discussed. The wide spe...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Jun 24, 2022
Digital technologies hold enormous potential for improving the performance of future-generation sorting and processing plants; however, this potential remains largely untapped. Improved sensor-based material flow characterization (SBMC) methods could...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jun 24, 2022
Robot hands play an important role in the interaction between robots and the environment, and the precision and complexity of their tasks in work production are becoming higher and higher. However, because the traditional manipulator has too many dri...
ISA transactions
Jun 7, 2022
Canard is a cutting-edge aerodynamic attachment for lowering the vehicle's drag coefficient by efficiently directing the airflow as well as reducing the lift coefficient by enhancing down-force. This paper aims to simulate the airflow crossing over t...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
May 25, 2022
PURPOSE: In robot-assisted transoral surgery, frequent retraction operations are essential to leave space for the surgical procedure. Commercial clinical retractors are simply composed of mechanical parts and cannot sense the touching force.