Soft robotic manipulators are continuum robots made of soft materials and flexible
components. The goal of soft robotic manipulators research is to enable these manipulators …

Electroadhesion (EA) is an electrically controllable adhesion mechanism that has been
studied and used in fields including active adhesion and attachment, robotic gripping …

Screen printing represents an effective way for applying stretchable electrodes on silicone
thin films for the fabrication of dielectric elastomer transducers (DET). Screen printing allows …

Soft actuation materials often only perform an actuation function, and do not achieve the
function of self‐sensing. In this work, the polyvinyl chloride (PVC) gels are prepared with a …

In this work we present a novel, inductance-based system to measure and control the motion
of bellows-driven continuum joints in soft robots. The sensing system relies on coils of wire …

In this article, we present a sensorless stiffness control (SC) architecture for a soft dielectric
elastomer (DE) membrane actuator. The method relies on a self-sensing algorithm that …

Dielectric elastomers (DEs) represent a new family of electromechanical transducers
capable of undergoing large actuation stroke (> 100%), allowing it to achieve performance …

Various types of artificial skins have been developed to provide robots with a sense of touch.
Because of their compliance, dielectric elastomer (DE) capacitive sensors are particularly …

This paper presents an overview of cooperative actuator and sensor systems based on
dielectric elastomer (DE) transducers. A DE consists of a flexible capacitor made of a thin …

There are two major categories of dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs), which differ from
the way in which the actuation is exploited: stack DEAs, using the thickness compression …