Recent progress in advanced tactile sensing technologies for soft grippers

J Qu, B Mao, Z Li, Y Xu, K Zhou, X Cao… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tactile sensing technology is crucial for soft grippers. Soft grippers equipped with intelligent
tactile sensing systems based on various sensors can interact safely with the unstructured …

Soft robotic grippers

J Shintake, V Cacucciolo, D Floreano… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in soft robotics, materials science, and stretchable electronics have enabled rapid
progress in soft grippers. Here, a critical overview of soft robotic grippers is presented …

Recent advances in biomimetic soft robotics: Fabrication approaches, driven strategies and applications

X Dong, X Luo, H Zhao, C Qiao, J Li, J Yi, L Yang… - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Compared to traditional rigid-bodied robots, soft robots are constructed using physically
flexible/elastic bodies and electronics to mimic nature and enable novel applications in …

[HTML][HTML] Shape memory alloys actuated upper limb devices: A review

QY Hamid, WZW Hasan, MAA Hanim… - Sensors and Actuators …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, significant efforts have been made to develop prostheses, soft rehabilitation, and
assistive devices that enhance the quality of life of limb amputees and the activities of daily …

A novel design of shape-memory alloy-based soft robotic gripper with variable stiffness

M Liu, L Hao, W Zhang, Z Zhao - International journal of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Soft robotic grippers with compliance have great superiority in grabbing objects with
irregular shape or fragility compared with traditional rigid grippers. The main limitations of …

Smart materials and their application in robotic hand systems: A state of the art

PA Castiblanco, JL Ramirez… - Indonesian Journal of …, 2021 - ejournal.kjpupi.id
The use of soft robotics and smart materials for the design of devices that help the
population in different tasks has gained a rising interest. Medicine is one of the fields where …

A review of shape memory alloy artificial muscles in bionic applications

H Du, G Li, J Sun, Y Zhang, Y Bai… - Smart Materials and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
As an important part of soft robots, artificial muscles have received increasing attention. And
since artificial muscles are developed by imitating the characteristics of biological muscles …

[HTML][HTML] A soft five-fingered hand actuated by Shape Memory Alloy wires: design, manufacturing, and evaluation

F Simone, G Rizzello, S Seelecke… - Frontiers in Robotics and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This work presents a novel five-fingered soft hand prototype actuated by Shape Memory
Alloy (SMA) wires. The use of thin (100 μm diameter) SMA wire actuators, in conjunction with …

Modeling and control of a finger-like mechanism using bending shape memory alloys

HFM Ali, AM Khan, H Baek, B Shin, Y Kim - Microsystem Technologies, 2021 - Springer
In this research a biologically inspired finger-like mechanism similar to human
musculoskeletal system is developed based on Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs). SMA …

A machine learning empowered shape memory alloy gripper with displacement-force-stiffness self-sensing

YC Pei, BH Wang, JT Wu, C Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a multiple self-sensing gripper (MssGripper) driven by the shape
memory alloy (SMA) and empowered by machine learning algorithms. The MssGripper can …