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 manipulators and grippers: A review

J Hughes, U Culha, F Giardina, F Guenther… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Soft robotics is a growing area of research which utilizes the compliance and adaptability of
soft structures to develop highly adaptive robotics for soft interactions. One area in which soft …

Soft phototactic swimmer based on self-sustained hydrogel oscillator

Y Zhao, C Xuan, X Qian, Y Alsaid, M Hua, L Jin, X He - Science robotics, 2019 - science.org
Oscillations are widely found in living organisms to generate propulsion-based locomotion
often driven by constant ambient conditions, such as phototactic movements. Such …

Tactile sensing in dexterous robot hands

Z Kappassov, JA Corrales, V Perdereau - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2015 - Elsevier
Tactile sensing is an essential element of autonomous dexterous robot hand manipulation. It
provides information about forces of interaction and surface properties at points of contact …

Haptic feedback and force-based teleoperation in surgical robotics

RV Patel, SF Atashzar, M Tavakoli - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents an overview of the current state of research and application of haptic
(primarily kinesthetic) feedback and force-based teleoperation in the context of surgical …

Novel tactile sensor technology and smart tactile sensing systems: A review

L Zou, C Ge, ZJ Wang, E Cretu, X Li - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
During the last decades, smart tactile sensing systems based on different sensing
techniques have been developed due to their high potential in industry and biomedical …

Design and fabrication of soft artificial skin using embedded microchannels and liquid conductors

YL Park, BR Chen, RJ Wood - IEEE Sensors journal, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We describe the design, fabrication, and calibration of a highly compliant artificial skin
sensor. The sensor consists of multilayered mircochannels in an elastomer matrix filled with …

Intelligent soft surgical robots for next‐generation minimally invasive surgery

J Zhu, L Lyu, Y Xu, H Liang, X Zhang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Endowed with the expected visions for future surgery, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has
become one of the most rapid developing areas in modern surgery. Soft robotics, which …

Recent progress in technologies for tactile sensors

C Chi, X Sun, N Xue, T Li, C Liu - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Over the last two decades, considerable scientific and technological efforts have been
devoted to developing tactile sensing based on a variety of transducing mechanisms, with …

A review of tactile sensing technologies with applications in biomedical engineering

MI Tiwana, SJ Redmond, NH Lovell - Sensors and Actuators A: physical, 2012 - Elsevier
Any device which senses information such as shape, texture, softness, temperature,
vibration or shear and normal forces, by physical contact or touch, can be termed a tactile …