Fully 3D-printed hydrogel actuator for jellyfish soft robots

Y Takishima, K Yoshida, A Khosla… - ECS Journal of Solid …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, interest to develop soft robots that mimic flora and fauna in the natural
environment has been growing in order to meet the demand for shortage in labor, working in …

Soft mobile robots: A review of soft robotic locomotion modes

Y Sun, A Abudula, H Yang, SS Chiang, Z Wan… - Current Robotics …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Soft robotics enables unprecedented capabilities for mobile
robots that could not be previously achieved using rigid mechanisms. This article serves as …

Force control of a 3D printed soft gripper with built-in pneumatic touch sensing chambers

C Tawk, E Sariyildiz, G Alici - Soft Robotics, 2022 - liebertpub.com
This work reports on a soft gripper with three-dimensional (3D) printed soft monolithic fingers
that seamlessly incorporate pneumatic touch sensing chambers (p TSCs) for real-time …

Design of soft robots: a review of methods and future opportunities for research

B Hasanshahi, L Cao, KY Song, W Zhang - Machines, 2024 - eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
Soft robots present resilient and adaptable systems characterized by deformable bodies
inspired by biological systems. In this paper, we comprehensively review existing design …

Reduced-order model based dynamic tracking for soft manipulators: Data-driven LPV modeling, control design and experimental results

S Li, AT Nguyen, TM Guerra, A Kruszewski - Control Engineering Practice, 2023 - Elsevier
We propose a generic nonlinear reduced-order tracking control method for elastic soft
robots. To this end, a new linear parameter varying (LPV) control framework is developed …

Very wide sensing range and hysteresis behaviors of tactile sensor developed by embedding soft ionic gels in soft silicone elastomers

Y Hara, K Yoshida, A Khosla… - ECS Journal of Solid …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present fabrication and characterization soft tactile sensors composed of ion gel channel
and elastomer (ion gel/elastomer sensors) and compared the sensing properties of the ion …

A survey on reinforcement learning methods in bionic underwater robots

R Tong, Y Feng, J Wang, Z Wu, M Tan, J Yu - Biomimetics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Bionic robots possess inherent advantages for underwater operations, and research on
motion control and intelligent decision making has expanded their application scope. In …

Biomimetic prosthetic hand enabled by liquid crystal elastomer tendons

H Lu, Z Zou, X Wu, C Shi, Y Liu, J Xiao - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
As one of the most important prosthetic implants for amputees, current commercially
available prosthetic hands are still too bulky, heavy, expensive, complex and inefficient …

Insect wing 3D printing

K Saito, H Nagai, K Suto, N Ogawa, Y Seong, T Tachi… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Insects have acquired various types of wings over their course of evolution and have
become the most successful terrestrial animals. Consequently, the essence of their excellent …

Accurate monitoring of small strain for timbre recognition via ductile fragmentation of functionalized graphene multilayers

T Yang, W Wang, Y Huang, X Jiang… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Sensitivity and linearity are two key parameters of flexible strain sensors. Although the
introduction of microstructures (eg, channel crack inspired by the geometry of the spider's slit …