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Soft robotics
Oct 27, 2021
Compared with traditional rigid grippers, soft grippers are made of lightweight and soft materials and have the characteristics of flexible contact and strong adaptability, which are widely utilized to grasp fragile objects with complex contours and ...
Soft robotics
Oct 7, 2021
Artificial tactile sensing for robots is a counterpart to the human sense of touch, serving as a feedback interface for sensing and interacting with the environment. A vision-based tactile sensor has emerged as a novel and advantageous branch of arti...
Soft robotics
Oct 5, 2021
Research on soft artificial muscles (SAMs) is rapidly growing, both in developing new actuation ideas and improving existing structures with multifunctionality. The human body has more than 600 muscles that drive organs and joints to achieve desired ...
Soft robotics
Sep 27, 2021
Soft robots are utilized in various operations such as rehabilitation, manipulation, and locomotion. These robots are sometimes excited by means of rubber based bending actuators, which are highly nonlinear and hyperelastic. In addition, in contrast ...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Sep 20, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Soft tissue deformation and ruptures complicate needle placement. However, ruptures at tissue interfaces also contain information which helps physicians to navigate through different layers. This navigation task can be challenging, wheneve...
Soft robotics
Jul 28, 2021
The compliance and deformability of soft robotics allow human-machine interactions in a safe manner without the need of sophisticated control systems inherent in rigid-body robotic devices. However, these advantages introduce controllability and pred...
ISA transactions
Jul 26, 2021
In this paper, cooperative robotic manipulators under uncertain base coordinate are investigated. The coordinate uncertainties result in biases of cooperative robotic dynamics, which involve horizontal and vertical translational errors in the task sp...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Jul 21, 2021
Similar to the end effectors for traditional rigid robots, those for soft robots are essential as the interacting media between the robots and their environments. Inspired by the forelegs of climbing animals, a passively adaptive soft gripper (ASG), ...
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Jul 3, 2021
While suction cups prevail as common gripping tools for a wide range of real-world parts and surfaces, they often fail to seal the contact interface when engaging with irregular shapes and textured surfaces. In this work, the authors propose a suctio...
Soft robotics
Jun 29, 2021
Achieving both high compliance and stiffness is a key issue in stiffness-tunable soft robots. A wide-range variable-stiffness method keeping pure soft characteristic is proposed by bioinspired design of deep-sea glass sponges adopting thermoplastic s...