Neural network-based active load-sensing scheme and stiffness adjustment for pneumatic soft actuators for minimally invasive surgery support

Y Lu, Z Zhou, S Kokubu, R Qin, PE Tortós Vinocour… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
To provide a stable surgical view in Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS), it is necessary for a
flexible endoscope applied in MIS to have adjustable stiffness to resist different external …

Addressing data imbalance in Sim2Real: ImbalSim2Real scheme and its application in finger joint stiffness self-sensing for soft robot-assisted rehabilitation

Z Zhou, Y Lu, PE Tortós, R Qin, S Kokubu… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The simulation-to-reality (sim2real) problem is a common issue when deploying simulation-
trained models to real-world scenarios, especially given the extremely high imbalance …

A Design Method for Instantaneous Force Generation Based on a Mantis Shrimp With Exoskeleton Spring

F Ito, Y Ishii, S Kurumaya, K Kagaya… - IEEE/ASME …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Biological organisms face multiple requirements to survive in their environments. This article
describes a design method for multiobjective optimization to construct a bioinspired robot …

A GAN based PID controller for highly adaptive control of a pneumatic-artificial-muscle driven antagonistic joint

Z Zhou, Y Lu, S Kokubu, PE Tortós, W Yu - Complex & Intelligent Systems, 2024 - Springer
Upper limb prostheses are commonly propelled by pneumatic artificial muscles organized in
an antagonistic arrangement. Nonetheless, the control of upper limb prostheses under …

Multi-structure parameter optimization analysis of soft actuator based on numerical calculation

W Songtao, Y Yimeng, J Shiyu, C Sisi - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To optimize the performance of the soft actuator, numerical simulation and regression
analysis of the multi-structure parameter are presented based on the numerical calculation …