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 …

Model-based control of soft robots: A survey of the state of the art and open challenges

C Della Santina, C Duriez, D Rus - IEEE Control Systems …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
From a functional standpoint, classic robots are not at all similar to biological systems. If
compared with rigid robots, animals' bodies look overly redundant, imprecise, and weak …

Control strategies for soft robot systems

J Wang, A Chortos - Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soft robots have recently attracted increased attention because their characteristics of low‐
cost fabrication, durability, and deformability make them uniquely suited for applications in …

Soft robotics: A review of recent developments of pneumatic soft actuators

J Walker, T Zidek, C Harbel, S Yoon, FS Strickland… - Actuators, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper focuses on the recent development of soft pneumatic actuators for soft robotics
over the past few years, concentrating on the following four categories: control systems …

Model-based reinforcement learning for closed-loop dynamic control of soft robotic manipulators

TG Thuruthel, E Falotico, F Renda… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dynamic control of soft robotic manipulators is an open problem yet to be well explored and
analyzed. Most of the current applications of soft robotic manipulators utilize static or quasi …

3D/4D-printed bending-type soft pneumatic actuators: Fabrication, modelling, and control

A Zolfagharian, MAP Mahmud, S Gharaie… - Virtual and Physical …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This article reviews soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) that are manufactured entirely via
additive manufacturing methods. These actuators are known as four-dimensional (4D) …

[HTML][HTML] Closed-loop 4D-printed soft robots

A Zolfagharian, A Kaynak, A Kouzani - Materials & Design, 2020 - Elsevier
Soft robotics is a recent and rapidly growing field of research that encompasses emerging
advances in functional materials, fabrication, modelling, and performance control with …

Machine learning for soft robotic sensing and control

K Chin, T Hellebrekers, C Majidi - Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, the progress of machine learning methods in the field of soft robotics, specifically in
the applications of sensing and control, is outlined. Data‐driven methods such as machine …

On an improved state parametrization for soft robots with piecewise constant curvature and its use in model based control

C Della Santina, A Bicchi, D Rus - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Piecewise constant curvature models have proven to be an useful tool for describing
kinematics and dynamics of soft robots. However, in their three dimensional formulation they …

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 …