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 …

Review of machine learning methods in soft robotics

D Kim, SH Kim, T Kim, BB Kang, M Lee, W Park, S Ku… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Soft robots have been extensively researched due to their flexible, deformable, and adaptive
characteristics. However, compared to rigid robots, soft robots have issues in modeling …

A review of soft manipulator research, applications, and opportunities

X Chen, X Zhang, Y Huang, L Cao… - Journal of Field …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soft manipulator is a kind of special manipulator that uses soft material or flexible structure to
perform manipulation task under the specific drive mode inspired by the soft tissue. It is …

Hierarchical control of soft manipulators towards unstructured interactions

H Jiang, Z Wang, Y Jin, X Chen, P Li… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Performing daily interaction tasks such as opening doors and pulling drawers in
unstructured environments is a challenging problem for robots. The emergence of soft …

A survey for machine learning-based control of continuum robots

X Wang, Y Li, KW Kwok - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Soft continuum robots have been accepted as a promising category of biomedical robots,
accredited to the robots' inherent compliance that makes them safely interact with their …

[PDF][PDF] 软体机械臂仿生机理, 驱动及建模控制研究发展综述

闫继宏, 石培沛, 张新彬, 赵杰 - 机械工程学报, 2018 - qikan.cmes.org
软体机械臂由柔性材料制作, 具有高柔顺性, 复杂环境适应性及安全人机交互性等特点,
研究涉及材料学, 仿生, 机械设计和制造, 传感器技术等多学科交叉融合, 其发展为柔性材料应用 …

Model-free control for soft manipulators based on reinforcement learning

X You, Y Zhang, X Chen, X Liu, Z Wang… - 2017 IEEE/RSJ …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most control methods of soft manipulators are developed based on physical models derived
from mathematical analysis or learning methods. However, due to internal nonlinearity and …

Disturbance-adaptive tapered soft manipulator with precise motion controller for enhanced task performance

X Li, Q Xiong, D Sui, Q Zhang, H Li… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The field of soft manipulators requires a more promising solution, including efficient
structures and controllers. This article presents a novel cable–pneumatic hybrid-driven …

A two-level approach for solving the inverse kinematics of an extensible soft arm considering viscoelastic behavior

H Jiang, Z Wang, X Liu, X Chen, Y Jin… - … on robotics and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft compliant materials and novel actuation mechanisms ensure flexible motions and high
adaptability for soft robots, but also increase the difficulty and complexity of constructing …

Design and characterization of a modular hybrid continuum robotic manipulator

HD Yang, AT Asbeck - IEEE/ASME Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a new design of a multi-DOF modular soft/rigid hybrid robotic manipulator that
includes integrated electronics and is composed of several modules which each provide 1-2 …