Optoelectronically innervated soft prosthetic hand via stretchable optical waveguides

H Zhao, K O'brien, S Li, RF Shepherd - Science robotics, 2016 - science.org
Because of their continuous and natural motion, fluidically powered soft actuators have
shown potential in a range of robotic applications, including prosthetics and orthotics …

Haptics in teleoperated medical interventions: Force measurement, haptic interfaces and their influence on user's performance

E Abdi, D Kulić, E Croft - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objectives: Haptics in teleoperated medical interventions enables measurement and
transfer of force information to the operator during robot-environment interaction. This paper …

Design, modeling, and validation of a soft magnetic 3-D force sensor

A Dwivedi, A Ramakrishnan, A Reddy… - IEEE Sensors …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advances in robotics promise a future where robots co-exist and collaborate with
humans in unstructured environments, which will require frequent physical interactions …

BP method with rectified linear unit-based nonlinear decoupling for 3-axis FBG force sensor

T Li, H Zheng, A Pan, J Guo, D Wu, Y Tan… - IEEE Sensors …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fiber Bragg grating (FBG) force sensor with a compact size has been designed which can
achieve the detection of three force components (Fx, Fy, Fz). The sensor is mainly comprised …

Design of a novel six-axis wrist force sensor

S Hu, H Wang, Y Wang, Z Liu - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
A novel elastic body design idea of six-axis wrist force sensor with a floating beam was
raised based on the analysis of the robot six-axis wrist force sensor with a floating beam …

A simple and easy-to-build optoelectronics force sensor based on light fork: Design comparison and experimental evaluation

G Palli, M Hosseini, C Melchiorri - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, the design and the implementation of a force sensor based on a commercial
optoelectronic component called light fork and characterized by the simple construction …

Structural design of six-dimensional force sensor elastomer based on composite beam

X Chen, Y Sun, Z Xie - 2023 IEEE 3rd International Conference …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A small six-dimensional force sensor has been designed with a composite structure
consisting of three crossbeams and three vertical beams. To facilitate analysis of the strain …

A high-force, high-stroke distal robotic add-on for endoscopy

JB Gafford, RJ Wood, CJ Walsh - 2017 IEEE International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Snap-On'robotic modules that can integrate distally with existing commercially-available
endoscopic equipment have the potential to provide new capabilities such as enhanced …

Distal proprioceptive sensor for motion feedback in endoscope-based modular robotic systems

J Gafford, H Aihara, C Thompson… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modular robotic systems that integrate distally with commercially available endoscopic
equipment have the potential to improve the standard-of-care in therapeutic endoscopy by …

[PDF][PDF] Position Estimation for Control of a Partially-Observable Linear Actuator

E Li, A Arora, J Whang - cs229.stanford.edu
In this work, we propose and compare position estimation approaches to enable control of a
low cost linear actuator with partially observed states. Our goal is to use machine learning …