Control strategies for soft robotic manipulators: A survey

T George Thuruthel, Y Ansari, E Falotico, C Laschi - Soft robotics, 2018 - liebertpub.com
With the rise of soft robotics technology and applications, there have been increasing
interests in the development of controllers appropriate for their particular design. Being …

Challenges of continuum robots in clinical context: a review

T da Veiga, JH Chandler, P Lloyd… - Progress in …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
With the maturity of surgical robotic systems based on traditional rigid-link principles, the rate
of progress slowed as limits of size and controllable degrees of freedom were reached …

A soft manipulator for efficient delicate grasping in shallow water: Modeling, control, and real-world experiments

Z Gong, X Fang, X Chen, J Cheng… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Collecting in shallow water (water depth:~ 30 m) is an emerging field that requires robotics
for replacing human divers. Soft robots have several promising features (eg, safe interaction …

A review of soft manipulator research, applications, and opportunities

X Chen, X Zhang, Y Huang, L Cao… - Journal of Field …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soft manipulator is a kind of special manipulator that uses soft material or flexible structure to
perform manipulation task under the specific drive mode inspired by the soft tissue. It is …

Hierarchical control of soft manipulators towards unstructured interactions

H Jiang, Z Wang, Y Jin, X Chen, P Li… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Performing daily interaction tasks such as opening doors and pulling drawers in
unstructured environments is a challenging problem for robots. The emergence of soft …

Soft robot control with a learned differentiable model

JM Bern, Y Schnider, P Banzet… - 2020 3rd IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft robots are inherently safe and comply readily to their environment. They are therefore
exciting for applications like search and rescue or medicine, which involve a high degree of …

Topology optimized design, fabrication, and characterization of a soft cable-driven gripper

F Chen, W Xu, H Zhang, Y Wang, J Cao… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft-bodied robots, due to their intrinsic compliance, have shown great potential for
operating within unstructured environment and interacting with unknown objects. This letter …

[PDF][PDF] 软体机械臂仿生机理, 驱动及建模控制研究发展综述

闫继宏, 石培沛, 张新彬, 赵杰 - 机械工程学报, 2018 - qikan.cmes.org
软体机械臂由柔性材料制作, 具有高柔顺性, 复杂环境适应性及安全人机交互性等特点,
研究涉及材料学, 仿生, 机械设计和制造, 传感器技术等多学科交叉融合, 其发展为柔性材料应用 …

Control design for soft robots based on reduced-order model

M Thieffry, A Kruszewski, C Duriez… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inspired by nature, soft robots promise disruptive advances in robotics. Soft robots are
naturally compliant and exhibit nonlinear behavior, which makes their study challenging. No …

A novel and accurate BiLSTM configuration controller for modular soft robots with module number adaptability

Z Chen, M Bernabei, V Mainardi, X Ren, G Ciuti… - Soft …, 2024 - liebertpub.com
Modular soft robots (MSRs) exhibit greater potential for sophisticated tasks compared with
single-module robots. However, the modular structure incurs the complexity of accurate …