Water-solid triboelectric nanogenerators: An alternative means for harvesting hydropower

D Jiang, M Xu, M Dong, F Guo, X Liu, G Chen… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
Hydropower is an important renewable resource, and is derived from the energy of falling,
fast-running, and/or oscillating motions of water, including rainfall, tidal currents, waves, and …

Single channel surface EMG control of advanced prosthetic hands: A simple, low cost and efficient approach

M Tavakoli, C Benussi, JL Lourenco - Expert Systems with Applications, 2017 - Elsevier
Surface EMGs have been the primary sources for control of prosthetic hands due to their
comfort and naturalness. The recent advances in the development of the prosthetic hands …

Wearable pressure mapping through piezoresistive C-PU foam and tailor-made stretchable e-textile

MR Carneiro, M Tavakoli - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pressure mapping e-skins and e-textile have applications in robotics, human movement and
grasp analysis, rehabilitation, and health monitoring. Especially, e-textiles can be tailor …

Effects of vibrotactile feedback and grasp interface compliance on perception and control of a sensorized myoelectric hand

AE Pena, L Rincon-Gonzalez, JJ Abbas, R Jung - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Current myoelectric prosthetic limbs are limited in their ability to provide direct sensory
feedback to users, which increases attentional demands and reliance on visual cues …

Carbon doped PDMS: conductance stability over time and implications for additive manufacturing of stretchable electronics

M Tavakoli, R Rocha, L Osorio… - Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Carbon doped PDMS (cPDMS), has been used as a conductive polymer for stretchable
electronics. Compared to liquid metals, cPDMS is low cost and is easier to process or to print …

Soft Robotic Finger with Energy-Coupled Quadrastability

Z Sun, T Jiang, Z Wang, P Jiang, Y Yang, H Li, T Ma… - Soft …, 2024 - liebertpub.com
The performance of the human finger is a significant inspiration for designing soft robotic
fingers that can achieve high speed and high force or perform delicate and complex tasks …

Controlling the deformation space of soft membranes using fiber reinforcement

N Sholl, A Moss, M Krieg… - The International Journal …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent efforts in soft-body control have been hindered by the infinite dimensionality of soft
bodies. Without restricting the deformation space of soft bodies to desired degrees of …

From conventional non-conductive foams to soft piezoresistive pressure sensors: A low-cost approach to large-area pressure-mapping

MR Carneiro, L Rosa, M Tavakoli - 2023 IEEE SENSORS, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a low-cost, and scalable method for synthesizing large sheets of
functionalized foam for soft resistive pressure sensing that is compatible with any …

A New Approach for Multi-Material Additive Manufacturing of a Sensorized Hybrid Soft Robotic Hand

L Grignaffini, H Van Der Kooij… - 2024 10th IEEE RAS …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, the integration of soft and rigid robotics also known as hybrid robotics has
shown significant promises in the advancement of robotic systems by providing the potential …

Study on the Articulated Finger Based on Pneumatic Soft Joint

K Shi, H Zheng, J Li, G Bao - … Journal of Fluid …, 2021 - journals.riverpublishers.com
This article described a novel pneumatic soft joint used to make articulated soft fingers. This
soft joint was designed by improving the basic structure of the fast pneumatic network. The …