A novel, variable stiffness robotic gripper based on integrated soft actuating and particle jamming

Y Wei, Y Chen, T Ren, Q Chen, C Yan, Y Yang, Y Li - Soft Robotics, 2016 - liebertpub.com
This article presents the design principle and fabrication of a variable stiffness soft robotic
gripper for adaptive grasping and robust holding. The proposed robotic gripper is based on …

Shape-adaptive universal soft parallel gripper for delicate grasping using a stiffness-variable composite structure

JY Lee, YS Seo, C Park, JS Koh, U Kim… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The robotic gripper is an essential component for handling, manipulating, and transporting
objects. However, the parallel rigid gripper, which is one of the most widely used grippers in …

Adaptive variable stiffness particle phalange for robust and durable robotic grasping

J Zhou, Y Chen, Y Hu, Z Wang, Y Li, G Gu, Y Liu - Soft robotics, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Grasping is an important characteristic of robots in interacting with humans and the
environment. Due to the inherent compliance of soft grippers, they can easily adapt to novel …

A soft-robotic gripper with enhanced object adaptation and grasping reliability

J Zhou, S Chen, Z Wang - IEEE Robotics and automation …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel soft-robotic gripper design is presented, with three soft bending fingers and one
passively adaptive palm. Each soft finger comprises two ellipse-profiled pneumatic …

Hybrid jamming for bioinspired soft robotic fingers

Y Yang, Y Zhang, Z Kan, J Zeng, MY Wang - Soft robotics, 2020 - liebertpub.com
This article describes a novel design of bioinspired soft robotic fingers based upon hybrid
jamming principle—integrated layer jamming and particle jamming. The finger combines a …

A soft bionic gripper with variable effective length

Y Hao, Z Gong, Z Xie, S Guan, X Yang, T Wang… - Journal of Bionic …, 2018 - Springer
This article presented a four-fingered soft bionic robotic gripper with variable effective
actuator lengths. By combining approaches of finite element analysis, quasi-static analytical …

Optimal design of a motor-driven three-finger soft robotic gripper

CH Liu, FM Chung, Y Chen, CH Chiu… - … ASME Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents an innovative, motor-driven, three-finger compliant gripper for adaptive
grasping of size-varied delicate objects. An optimized compliant finger design is identified …

A soft robotic gripper with an active palm and reconfigurable fingers for fully dexterous in-hand manipulation

A Pagoli, F Chapelle, JA Corrales… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study is focused on developing a new dexterous soft robotic gripper with three fingers
and an active palm capable of performing in-hand manipulation purposes. This innovative …

Soft robotic grippers based on particle transmission

Y Li, Y Chen, Y Yang, Y Li - IEEE/ASME Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The actuation of soft robotics has relied predominantly on pneumatic or hydraulic
transmissions. However, these transmissions require good sealing and complicated valve …

A two-finger soft-robotic gripper with enveloping and pinching grasping modes

S Liu, F Wang, Z Liu, W Zhang, Y Tian… - … ASME Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a two-finger soft-robotic gripper with enveloping grasping (EG) and
pinching grasping (PG) modes. The proposed soft-robotic gripper is based on a two-finger …