Textile technology for soft robotic and autonomous garments

V Sanchez, CJ Walsh, RJ Wood - Advanced functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Textiles have emerged as a promising class of materials for developing wearable robots that
move and feel like everyday clothing. Textiles represent a favorable material platform for …

Wearable soft technologies for haptic sensing and feedback

J Yin, R Hinchet, H Shea… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) systems have garnered recent widespread
attention due to increased accessibility, functionality, and affordability. These systems sense …

Exploiting textile mechanical anisotropy for fabric-based pneumatic actuators

L Cappello, KC Galloway, S Sanan, DA Wagner… - Soft robotics, 2018 - liebertpub.com
Knit, woven, and nonwoven fabrics offer a diverse range of stretch and strain limiting
mechanical properties that can be leveraged to produce tailored, whole-body deformation …

A review of soft wearable robots that provide active assistance: Trends, common actuation methods, fabrication, and applications

C Thalman, P Artemiadis - Wearable Technologies, 2020 - cambridge.org
This review meta-analysis combines and compares the findings of previously published
works in the field of soft wearable robots (SWRs) that provide active methods of actuation for …

Fiber optic shape sensing for soft robotics

KC Galloway, Y Chen, E Templeton, B Rife… - Soft robotics, 2019 - liebertpub.com
While soft material actuators can undergo large deformations to execute very complex
motions, what is critically lacking in soft material robotic systems is the ability to collect high …

Brain-computer interface-based soft robotic glove rehabilitation for stroke

N Cheng, KS Phua, HS Lai, PK Tam… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: This randomized controlled feasibility study investigates the ability for clinical
application of the Brain-Computer Interface-based Soft Robotic Glove (BCI-SRG) …

Soft robotics enables neuroprosthetic hand design

G Gu, N Zhang, C Chen, H Xu, X Zhu - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Development and implementation of neuroprosthetic hands is a multidisciplinary field at the
interface between humans and artificial robotic systems, which aims at replacing the …

Design, modeling, and evaluation of fabric-based pneumatic actuators for soft wearable assistive gloves

L Ge, F Chen, D Wang, Y Zhang, D Han, T Wang… - Soft robotics, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Textile fabrics are compliant, lightweight, and inherently anisotropic, making them promising
for the design of soft pneumatic actuators. In this article, we present the design, modeling …

A data‐driven review of soft robotics

B Jumet, MD Bell, V Sanchez… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The past decade of soft robotics has delivered impactful and promising contributions to
society and has seen exponentially increasing interest from scientists and engineers. This …

Hybrid rigid-soft hand exoskeleton to assist functional dexterity

CG Rose, MK O'Malley - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A hybrid hand exoskeleton, leveraging rigid and soft elements, has been designed to serve
as an assistive device to return the ability to perform activities of daily living (ADL) and …