Soft pneumatic actuators: A review of design, fabrication, modeling, sensing, control and applications

MS Xavier, CD Tawk, A Zolfagharian, J Pinskier… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft robotics is a rapidly evolving field where robots are fabricated using highly deformable
materials and usually follow a bioinspired design. Their high dexterity and safety make them …

Shape sensing techniques for continuum robots in minimally invasive surgery: A survey

C Shi, X Luo, P Qi, T Li, S Song… - IEEE Transactions …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Continuum robots provide inherent structural compliance with high dexterity to access the
surgical target sites along tortuous anatomical paths under constrained environments and …

[HTML][HTML] Triboelectric nanogenerator sensors for soft robotics aiming at digital twin applications

T Jin, Z Sun, L Li, Q Zhang, M Zhu, Z Zhang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Designing efficient sensors for soft robotics aiming at human machine interaction remains a
challenge. Here, we report a smart soft-robotic gripper system based on triboelectric …

Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) enabled virtual shop applications using self‐powered sensor enhanced soft robotic manipulator

Z Sun, M Zhu, Z Zhang, Z Chen, Q Shi… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid advancements of artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) technology pave the way for
developing a digital‐twin‐based remote interactive system for advanced robotic‐enabled …

Kinematics, dynamics, and control of a cable-driven hyper-redundant manipulator

W Xu, T Liu, Y Li - IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A cable-driven hyper-redundant manipulator has superior dexterity for confined space
applications. However, the modeling and control considering the cables are very complex. In …

End-effector pose and arm-shape synchronous planning methods of a hyper-redundant manipulator for spacecraft repairing

J Peng, W Xu, T Liu, H Yuan, B Liang - Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2021 - Elsevier
Compared with traditional industrial robots, a hyper-redundant manipulator (HRM) has
better flexibility, especially in obstacle avoidance, narrow restricted space crossing and fault …

Shape estimation and control of a soft continuum robot under external payloads

Q Zhao, J Lai, K Huang, X Hu… - IEEE/ASME Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Finding the shape of a continuum robot is a challenging task, especially in a constrained
environment where external sensors like cameras are unable to provide sufficient …

Laser-profiled continuum robot with integrated tension sensing for simultaneous shape and tip force estimation

A Gao, N Liu, M Shen, M EMK Abdelaziz… - Soft robotics, 2020 - liebertpub.com
The development of miniaturized continuum robots has a wide range of applications in
minimally invasive endoluminal interventions. To navigate inside tortuous lumens without …

Development of a novel continuum robotic system for maxillary sinus surgery

W Hong, L Xie, J Liu, Y Sun, K Li… - … /ASME Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lesions in the maxillary sinus area are usually treated with endoscopic interventional
surgery. However, target lesions are often hardly accessible with conventional surgical tools …

Dynamic modeling and trajectory tracking control method of segmented linkage cable-driven hyper-redundant robot

J Peng, W Xu, T Yang, Z Hu, B Liang - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2020 - Springer
The dynamics modeling and trajectory optimization of a segmented linkage cable-driven
hyper-redundant robot (SL-CDHRR) become more challenging, since there are multiple …