[HTML][HTML] Soft robotics: Morphology and morphology-inspired motion strategy

F Xu, H Wang - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2021 - ieee-jas.net
Robotics has aroused huge attention since the 1950s. Irrespective of the uniqueness that
industrial applications exhibit, conventional rigid robots have displayed noticeable …

Kirigami skins make a simple soft actuator crawl

A Rafsanjani, Y Zhang, B Liu, SM Rubinstein… - Science Robotics, 2018 - science.org
Bioinspired soft machines made of highly deformable materials are enabling a variety of
innovative applications, yet their locomotion typically requires several actuators that are …

Actuation and design innovations in earthworm-inspired soft robots: A review

J Liu, P Li, S Zuo - Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Currently, soft robotics technologies are creating the means of robotic abilities and are
required for the development of biomimetic robotics. In recent years, earthworm-inspired soft …

An earthworm-like modular soft robot for locomotion in multi-terrain environments

R Das, SPM Babu, F Visentin, S Palagi, B Mazzolai - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Robotic locomotion in subterranean environments is still unsolved, and it requires innovative
designs and strategies to overcome the challenges of burrowing and moving in unstructured …

Inchworm inspired multimodal soft robots with crawling, climbing, and transitioning locomotion

Y Zhang, D Yang, P Yan, P Zhou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although many soft robots, capable of crawling or climbing, have been well developed,
integrating multimodal locomotion into a soft robot for transitioning between crawling and …

Worm-like soft robot for complicated tubular environments

B Zhang, Y Fan, P Yang, T Cao, H Liao - Soft robotics, 2019 - liebertpub.com
This article describes a worm-like soft robot capable of operating in complicated tubular
environments, such as the complex pipeline with different diameters, water, oil, and gas …

Yoshimura-origami based earthworm-like robot with 3-dimensional locomotion capability

Q Zhang, H Fang, J Xu - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Earthworm-like robots have received great attention due to their prominent locomotion
abilities in various environments. In this research, by exploiting the extraordinary three …

[HTML][HTML] Three-dimensional auxetic structure design methods based on bulking-induced deformation and the application in soft crawling robot

B Liu, J Feng, K Yu, J Li, Q Hu, Z Lin, J Fu - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The 3D auxetic buckling pattern in the compression process is used to design auxetic
structures. However, obtaining this pattern is time consuming and unintentional. In this …

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 …

A worm-snake-inspired metameric robot for multi-modal locomotion: design, modeling, and unified gait control

Z Bi, Q Zhou, H Fang - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Worm-like and snake-like robots have attracted a great deal of research attention due to
their slender bodies and excellent mobility. Based on different locomotion mechanisms …