Circular shell gripper for handling food products

Z Wang, R Kanegae, S Hirai - Soft robotics, 2021 - liebertpub.com
Pneumatically driven soft robotic grippers have been extensively studied in recent years. A
majority of the grippers, especially those entirely composed of soft materials, can adapt to …

Modeling fabric-type actuator using point clouds by deep learning

Y Peng, H Yamaguchi, Y Funabora, S Doki - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flexible actuators are popular in the consumer and medical fields because of their flexibility
and compliance. However, they are typically difficult to model because of their viscoelasticity …

Design and characterization of a bellows-driven soft pneumatic actuator

R Hashem, M Stommel, LK Cheng… - … /ASME Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The soft robotics field investigates biological bodies' movements to develop soft actuation
with similar behavior seen in nature. The skeletal muscles' movements are vastly mimicked …

Peristaltic transporting device inspired by large intestine structure

Y Peng, H Nabae, Y Funabora, K Suzumori - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2024 - Elsevier
A pneumatic large intestine-like soft robot with McKibben muscles is designed based on
traveling wave motion. The robot consists of four sections, and each section is controlled by …

Variable stiffness soft robotic gripper: Design, development, and prospects

Y Shan, Y Zhao, H Wang, L Dong, C Pei… - Bioinspiration & …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The advent of variable stiffness soft robotic grippers furnishes a conduit for exploration and
manipulation within uncharted, non-structured environments. The paper provides a …

Design of a novel soft pneumatic gripper with variable gripping size and mode

Y Ye, P Cheng, B Yan, Y Lu, C Wu - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic …, 2022 - Springer
Soft grippers have attracted increasing attention due to safer and more adaptable human–
machine and environment-machine interactions. However, it has always been a challenge …

Soft sensors for a sensing-actuation system with high bladder voiding efficiency

F Arab Hassani, H Jin, T Yokota, T Someya… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Sensing-actuation systems can assist a bladder with lost sensation and weak muscle
control. Here, we advance the relevant technology by integrating a soft and thin capacitive …

[PDF][PDF] Untethered, high-load soft gripping robots: A review

李海利, 姚建涛, 周盼, 赵无眠, 许允斗… - Journal of Mechanical …, 2020 - qikan.cmes.org
Due to the limitation of soft materials, fabrication, and key components, most soft robots have
low load capacity and can not carry the hardware system for control and power. Therefore …

[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 …

SoGut: A soft robotic gastric simulator

Y Dang, Y Liu, R Hashem, D Bhattacharya, J Allen… - Soft robotics, 2021 - liebertpub.com
The human stomach breaks down and transports food by coordinated radial contractions of
the gastric walls. The radial contractions periodically propagate through the stomach and …