Robotic artificial muscles: Current progress and future perspectives

J Zhang, J Sheng, CT O'Neill, CJ Walsh… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic artificial muscles are a subset of artificial muscles that are capable of producing
biologically inspired motions useful for robot systems, ie, large power-to-weight ratios …

Soft wearable robots: development status and technical challenges

Y Shi, W Dong, W Lin, Y Gao - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, more and more research has begun to focus on the flexible and lightweight
design of wearable robots. During this process, many novel concepts and achievements …

Recent advances in twisted‐fiber artificial muscles

X Leng, X Hu, W Zhao, B An, X Zhou… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
An artificial muscle is a type of actuator that can contract, extend, or rotate when exposed to
external stimuli (eg, electrochemical, temperature, pressure, humidity, light, etc.). Twisted …

Capstancrunch: A haptic vr controller with user-supplied force feedback

M Sinclair, E Ofek, M Gonzalez-Franco… - Proceedings of the 32nd …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
We introduce CapstanCrunch, a force resisting, palm-grounded haptic controller that
renders haptic feedback for touching and grasping both rigid and compliant objects in a VR …

Tuning the reversibility of hair artificial muscles by disulfide cross-linking for sensors, switches, and soft robotics

X Leng, X Zhou, J Liu, Y Xiao, J Sun, Y Li, Z Liu - Materials Horizons, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Tensile and torsional artificial muscles from biocompatible and biodegradable materials are
highly desired for soft robotics, sensors, and controllers in bio-related applications. Twisted …

Designing anthropomorphic robot hand with active dual-mode twisted string actuation mechanism and tiny tension sensors

SH Jeong, KS Kim, S Kim - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, using the active dual-mode twisted string actuation (TSA) mechanism and tiny
tension sensors on the tendon strings, an anthropomorphic robot hand is newly designed in …

Anthropomorphic twisted string-actuated soft robotic gripper with tendon-based stiffening

R Konda, D Bombara, S Swanbeck… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Realizing high-performance soft robotic grippers is challenging because of the inherent
limitations of the soft actuators and artificial muscles that drive them, including low force …

Compliant, large-strain, and self-sensing twisted string actuators

D Bombara, S Fowzer, J Zhang - Soft Robotics, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Twisted string actuators (TSAs) convert rotational motion from twisting into linear motion.
They are known for high energy efficiency, and large linear strain and stress outputs …

Auxilio: A portable cable-driven exosuit for upper extremity assistance

I Gaponov, D Popov, SJ Lee, JH Ryu - International Journal of Control …, 2017 - Springer
This paper introduces a fully portable, lightweight exosuit-type device for shoulder and
elbow assistance. The main motivation of this research was to design a portable upper limb …

Development of a high flow rate soft pump driven by intersected twisted artificial muscles units

J Sun, D Zhou, J Deng, Y Liu - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Small soft pumps are extensively explored in medical fields and soft robotics, but the
insufficient flow rate constrains their applications. In this article, an intersected twisted …