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Reinforced bidirectional artificial muscles: enhancing force and stability for soft robotics
Soft robotics has gained significant interest due to its resemblance to soft organic bodies, enabling direct human interaction. Soft actuators are a crucial component of these soft robots as they enable their ...
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Soft actuators in surgical robotics: a state-of-the-art review
Soft surgical robots represent a groundbreaking innovation in the field of medical technology. These robots utilize soft, deformable materials to navigate and interact with delicate structures inside the human...
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A Review and Comparison of Linear Pneumatic Artificial Muscles
For mechanical systems where a human–machine interface or interaction is necessary, it is important to consider physical safety. In cases where robots and humans must coexist, these robots must have actuation ...
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A series elastic actuator using air and water and its force control
This study proposes a new type of series elastic actuator (SEA) utilizing a mixture of air and water. Instead of simply mixing air and water, a control method for its output force based on piston position cont...
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Open AccessSoft climbing robot with magnetic feet for multimodal locomotion
Inspection robots that can be used to inspect man-made structures have significant potential for industrial applications, but existing soft robots are not well suited for the exploration of complex metallic st...
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Open AccessFabric muscle with a cooling acceleration structure for upper limb assistance soft exosuits
Soft exosuits used for supporting human muscle strength must be lightweight and wearable. Shape memory alloy (SMA) spring-based fabric muscles (SFM) are light and flexible, making them suitable for soft and sh...
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Reconfigurable constriction-based soft actuation for decorative morphing flowers
Most soft actuators producing joint-like deformations rely on the expansion of materials or on the use of multiple chambers in equilibrium while requiring additional structures for inter-connecting the joints....
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Preface for the Soft and Green Manufacturing and Applications
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Film-based anisotropic balloon inflatable bending actuator
Most soft pneumatic actuators require large pressures to realize their full deformations, have a non-negligible weight from their polymeric structures and have limited bending angles. In this work, a new soft ...
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Open AccessLong Shape Memory Alloy Tendon-based Soft Robotic Actuators and Implementation as a Soft Gripper
Shape memory alloy (SMA) wire-based soft actuators have had their performance limited by the small stroke of the SMA wire embedded within the polymeric matrix. This intrinsically links the bending angle and be...
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Efficiency of Origami-Based Vacuum Pneumatic Artificial Muscle for Off-Grid Operation
Soft pneumatic actuators using either pressurized air or vacuum pressure are the soft actuators with the most potential for real-life applications, but their energy efficiency has not been studied in much deta...
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Pleated Film-Based Soft Twisting Actuator
Soft robotics and actuators are becoming increasingly popular with diverse applications; their compliant structures and smooth deformations, which give rise to its softness, offer inherent safety to humans. Th...
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From design for manufacturing (DFM) to manufacturing for design (MFD) via hybrid manufacturing and smart factory: A review and perspective of paradigm shift
Manufacturing paradigms have historically been shaped by social, economic, and technological aspect, including limitations and needs. Design for manufacturing (DFM) has been the main paradigm for last three de...
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Open Access35 Hz shape memory alloy actuator with bending-twisting mode
Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) materials are widely used as an actuating source for bending actuators due to their high power density. However, due to the slow actuation speed of SMAs, there are limitations in their...
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Open AccessDeployable Soft Composite Structures
Deployable structure composed of smart materials based actuators can reconcile its inherently conflicting requirements of low mass, good shape adaptability, and high load-bearing capability. This work describe...
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Effect of twist morphing wing segment on aerodynamic performance of UAV
The design space for morphing wings is incredibly broad and allows for a wide range of improvements versus fixed wing aircrafts such that each type of morphing can be useful for different purposes. This work i...
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Cross-shaped twisting structure using SMA-based smart soft composite
This paper introduces a novel geometry for a pure-twisting soft morphing actuator that improves the stability of the actuator and allows it to obtain a larger twisting angle. The smart soft composite (SSC) act...
