Soft pneumatic actuators: A review of design, fabrication, modeling, sensing, control and applications

MS Xavier, CD Tawk, A Zolfagharian, J Pinskier… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft robotics is a rapidly evolving field where robots are fabricated using highly deformable
materials and usually follow a bioinspired design. Their high dexterity and safety make them …

Soft robotic manipulators: Designs, actuation, stiffness tuning, and sensing

W Dou, G Zhong, J Cao, Z Shi, B Peng… - Advanced Materials …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Soft robotic manipulators are continuum robots made of soft materials and flexible
components. The goal of soft robotic manipulators research is to enable these manipulators …

A review of jamming actuation in soft robotics

SG Fitzgerald, GW Delaney, D Howard - Actuators, 2020 - mdpi.com
Jamming is a popular and versatile soft robotic mechanism, enabling new systems to be
developed that can achieve high stiffness variation with minimal volume variation …

Intelligent soft surgical robots for next‐generation minimally invasive surgery

J Zhu, L Lyu, Y Xu, H Liang, X Zhang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Endowed with the expected visions for future surgery, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has
become one of the most rapid developing areas in modern surgery. Soft robotics, which …

Current designs of robotic arm grippers: A comprehensive systematic review

J Hernandez, MSH Sunny, J Sanjuan, I Rulik, MII Zarif… - Robotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Recent technological advances enable gripper-equipped robots to perform many tasks
traditionally associated with the human hand, allowing the use of grippers in a wide range of …

Bending analysis and contact force modeling of soft pneumatic actuators with pleated structures

G Zhong, W Dou, X Zhang, H Yi - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soft pneumatic actuators with pleated structures inherently have many advantages, such as
low input pressure, high bending speed, and large-amplitude motion, which make them …

High-force soft pneumatic actuators based on novel casting method for robotic applications

H Li, J Yao, P Zhou, X Chen, Y Xu, Y Zhao - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2020 - Elsevier
Soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) play an important role in leading the development of soft
robotics, and enable diverse and complex hardware design for soft robots. However, due to …

Otariidae-inspired soft-robotic supernumerary flippers by fabric kirigami and origami

S Liu, Y Zhu, Z Zhang, Z Fang, J Tan… - IEEE/ASME …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wearable robotic devices are receiving rapidly growing attentions for human-centered
scenarios from medical, rehabilitation, to industrial applications. Supernumerary robotic …

[PDF][PDF] 无系留大负载软体抓持机器人研究发展综述

李海利, 姚建涛, 周盼, 赵无眠, 许允斗, 赵永生 - 机械工程学报, 2020 - qikan.cmes.org
受软体材料, 制造工艺, 核心部件的限制, 大多数的软体机器人负载能力较低,
不能随机携带控制和能量硬件系统, 不得不通过管路和线路系留在外部硬件上 …

A variable structure pneumatic soft robot

W Huang, J Xiao, Z Xu - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
In this paper, a variable structure pneumatic soft robot is proposed. Its structure is variable in
that when it grasps irregular objects, it can adapt to different sizes by active expansion or …