AIMC Topic: Shape Memory Alloys

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Bioinspired design and validation of a soft robotic end-effector with integrated shape memory alloy-driven suction capabilities.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Dec 2, 2024
The exploration of adaptive robotic systems capable of performing complex tasks in unstructured environments, such as underwater salvage operations, presents a significant challenge. Traditional rigid grippers often struggle with adaptability, wherea...
Biomechanical Phenomena Animals Biomimetics Suction Robotics Equipment Design Biomimetic Materials Alloys Octopodiformes Shape Memory Alloys
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Soft Artificial Muscle Based on Pre-Detwinned Shape Memory Alloy Spring Actuator Achieving High Passive Assistive Torque for Wearable Robot.

Soft robotics Feb 6, 2024
For designing the assistive wearable rehabilitation robots, it is challenging to design the robot as energy efficient because the actuators have to be capable of overcoming human loads such as gravity of the body and spastic torque continuously durin...
Humans Equipment Design Alloys Torque Shape Memory Alloys Wearable Electronic Devices Robotics
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Hingeless arm for space robotics actuated through shape memory alloys.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Dec 18, 2023
Operating outside the spacecraft via remotely controlled structures is an important opportunity in different space applications. The research in this area is focused on designing robots that are sufficiently flexible to allow inspection in locations ...
Robotics Shape Memory Alloys Biomimetics Alloys
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A Gecko-Inspired Robot with a Flexible Spine Driven by Shape Memory Alloy Springs.

Soft robotics Feb 13, 2023
The majority of sprawling-posture quadrupedal vertebrates, such as geckos and lizards, adopt a cyclical lateral swing pattern of their trunk that is coordinated with limb movements to provide extraordinary flexibility and mobility. Inspired by the ge...
Shape Memory Alloys Locomotion Lizards Animals Robotics Spine
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Design and kinematics of a tube-shaped multidirectional bending robotic device using slackened SMA wires for transurethral ureterolithotripsy.

International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery Oct 21, 2022
PURPOSE: The complex and elaborate structure of the urinary system presents surgeons with difficulty in using a ureteroscope with a fixed optical fiber to reach the targeted calculus. To address this challenge, a robotic device is required to control...
Shape Memory Alloys Robotics Equipment Design Biomechanical Phenomena Kidney Humans
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Shape Memory Alloy-Based Wearables: A Review, and Conceptual Frameworks on HCI and HRI in Industry 4.0.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Sep 8, 2022
Ever since its discovery, the applications of Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) can be found across a range of application domains, from structural design to medical technology. This is based upon the unique and inherent characteristics such as thermal Shape...
Plastics Wearable Electronic Devices Alloys Shape Memory Alloys Humans Robotics
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Locomotion of an untethered, worm-inspired soft robot driven by a shape-memory alloy skeleton.

Scientific reports Jul 20, 2022
Soft, worm-like robots show promise in complex and constrained environments due to their robust, yet simple movement patterns. Although many such robots have been developed, they either rely on tethered power supplies and complex designs or cannot mo...
Robotics Locomotion Friction Shape Memory Alloys Skeleton
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Control Aspects of Shape Memory Alloys in Robotics Applications: A Review over the Last Decade.

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...
Muscles Shape Memory Alloys Alloys Mechanical Phenomena Robotics
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Shape memory alloy-driven undulatory locomotion of a soft biomimetic ray robot.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Sep 9, 2021
The objective of this study was to imitate undulatory motion, which is a commonly observed swimming mechanism of rays, using a soft morphing actuator. To achieve the undulatory motion, an artificial muscle built with shape memory alloy-based soft act...
Robotics Biomimetics Biomechanical Phenomena Animals Swimming Shape Memory Alloys Locomotion
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A bionic soft tongue driven by shape memory alloy and pneumatics.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics Aug 11, 2021
Soft grippers have exhibited considerable advantages owing to their flexible deformation, compliant operation, and safe interaction with objects. The ability to grip solid and liquid objects can greatly expand the application range of the soft grippe...
Hand Strength Bionics Dogs Robotics Animals Shape Memory Alloys Tongue
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