Developments in medical device design result in advances in wearable technologies,
minimally invasive surgical techniques, and patient-specific approaches to medicine. In this …

The framework of this paper is to present a systematic review of the state-of-the-art
development of cooperative dual-arm manipulators in the industrial and household fields. A …

Recently, the pneumatic artificial muscle (PAM) that can reproduce natural muscle
functionalities has become one of the core actuator mechanisms of intelligent interactive soft …

Rapid advancements in technology have facilitated the development of functional micro-
electromechanical system (MEMS) actuators. The use of such actuators has recently …

In this paper, a nonlinear control strategy is proposed for a pneumatic manipulator based on
an adaptive extended state observer and a backstepping integral sliding mode controller. A …

McKibben pneumatic artificial muscle (PAM) is a popular soft actuator used in robots, with
excellent performance comparable to organic muscles. However, owing to a lack of …

It is difficult for a humanoid leg driven by two groups of antagonistic pneumatic muscles
(PMs) to achieve a flexible humanoid gait, and its inherent strong coupling nonlinear …

Conventionally, to produce a linear motion, one motor's stator is employed to drive one
runner moving forward or backward. So far, there is almost no report of one …

In this article, a multi-DOF manipulator driven by novel hysteresis-attenuated pneumatic
artificial muscles (PAMs) is designed, and the multi-DOF manipulator is composed of three …

This paper presents the design and implementation of a flexible manipulator formed of
connected continuum kinematic modules (CKMs) to ease the fabrication of a continuum …