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 …

A review of jamming actuation in soft robotics

SG Fitzgerald, GW Delaney, D Howard - Actuators, 2020 - mdpi.com
Jamming is a popular and versatile soft robotic mechanism, enabling new systems to be
developed that can achieve high stiffness variation with minimal volume variation …

[PDF][PDF] 无系留大负载软体抓持机器人研究发展综述

李海利, 姚建涛, 周盼, 赵无眠, 许允斗, 赵永生 - 机械工程学报, 2020 - qikan.cmes.org
受软体材料, 制造工艺, 核心部件的限制, 大多数的软体机器人负载能力较低,
不能随机携带控制和能量硬件系统, 不得不通过管路和线路系留在外部硬件上 …

Variable stiffness electroadhesion and compliant electroadhesive grippers

R Chen, Z Zhang, J Guo, F Liu, J Leng, J Rossiter - Soft Robotics, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Soft adhesion is capable of attaching and bonding to rough surfaces and gripping nonplanar
materials. It is preferable for material handling applications where safe interactions with …

A high-load bioinspired soft gripper with force booster fingers

H Li, P Zhou, S Zhang, J Yao, Y Zhao - Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2022 - Elsevier
Significantly improving the load capacity of soft grippers while taking into account their
flexibility is a challenge that must be addressed to promote their application in more fields …

[HTML][HTML] Design and optimization of the magnetic field-driven spherical gripper with adjustable stiffness

R Li, W Qin, G Li, M Shou, X Wang, X Huang, X Gong… - Materials & Design, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new gripping technique that merges the variable stiffness
characteristics of conventional magnet-controlled and negative-pressure spherical grippers …

Variable stiffness soft pneumatic grippers augmented with active vacuum adhesion

R Chen, L Wu, Y Sun, JQ Chen… - Smart Materials and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Soft pneumatic grippers (SPGs), made of highly stretchable elastomer materials with internal
fluidic channels, are a popular soft robotic gripping technology, and have been configured …

Three-dimensional printing of cylindrical nozzle elements of bernoulli gripping devices for industrial robots

R Mykhailyshyn, F Duchoň, M Mykhailyshyn… - Robotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The application of additive technologies, namely, fused deposition modeling, is a new reality
for prototyping gripping devices of industrial robots. However, during 3D printing of holes …

A stiffness variable passive compliance device with reconfigurable elastic inner skeleton and origami shell

Z Zhang, G Chen, W Fan, W Yan, L Kong… - Chinese Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Devices with variable stiffness are drawing more and more attention with the growing
interests of human-robot interaction, wearable robotics, rehabilitation robotics, etc. In this …

Discrete layer jamming for variable stiffness co-robot arms

Y Zhou, LM Headings… - Journal of …, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Continuous layer jamming is an effective tunable stiffness mechanism that utilizes vacuum to
vary friction between laminates enclosed in a membrane. In this paper, we present a …