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Selection of a suitable additive manufacturing process for soft robotics application using three-way decision-making
Additive manufacturing technology has fostered its significant application in soft robotics fabrication due to the design freedom and ease of...
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Facile Preparation of Novel Carbon Microspheres for Improvement in Flame Retardancy, Smoke Suppression and Toxicity Reduction of Thermoplastic Polyurethane Elastomer
The purpose of this paper lies in the preparation and utilization of phenolic resin hollow microspheres to enhance the induced carbonization...
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Tree Trunks Cross-Platform Detection Using Deep Learning Strategies for Forestry Operations
To tackle wildfires and improve forest biomass management, cost effective and reliable mowing and pruning robots are required. However, the...
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Characterization of Additive Manufactured Structures for the Development of Foam-Replacement Cushions
For an ergonomic and healthy sitting posture, the distribution of the seat load in the contact zone through a soft seat cushion is essential....
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An ultrasensitive and stretchable strain sensor based on a microcrack structure for motion monitoring
Flexible strain sensors are promising candidates for intelligent wearable devices. Among previous studies, although crack-based sensors have...
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Pneumatic and tendon actuation coupled muti-mode actuators for soft robots with broad force and speed range
Broad output force and speed ranges are highly desired for actuators to endow soft robots with high performance, thereby increasing the range of...
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4D precipitation printing technologies toward sensing devices using microporous structures
Immersion 3D precipitation printing (ip3DP, or simply precipitation printing) is a novel additive manufacturing technique which involves dispensing...
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Thermal properties of 3D printed products from the most common polymers
This research focuses on four thermal characteristics of 3D products printed from the fourteen most common filaments. The softening temperature,...
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Study on process and parameter optimisation of selective laser sintering of thermoplastic polyurethane/carbon nanotube powder
Herein, the tensile strength of selective laser sintering thermoplastic polyurethane/carbon nanotube (TPU/CNT) composites was improved, and...
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Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Thermoplastic Polyurethane/Jute Cellulose Nanofibers (CNFs) Nanocomposites
Cellulose nanofibers (CNFs) are linear polymer that exhibits high stiffness and strength due to extensive intermolecular and intramolecular hydrogen...
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Synergistic effect of single-wall carbon nanotubes and MoS2 on tribological performance of polyether MDI polyurethane elastomer
Synergistic effects have been extensively investigated in the modification of polymer materials. To gain complete insights into the effect of...
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Tribological interactions of 3D printed polyurethane and polyamide with water-responsive skin model
3D printing in the textile and fashion industry is a new emerging technology. Applications of 3D printing for designing clothes and other wearable...
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Soft pneumatic actuators with integrated resistive sensors enabled by multi-material 3D printing
The concept of soft robots has garnered significant attention in recent studies due to their unique capability to interact effectively with the...
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Exploitation of the hard/soft segments ratio in thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) for the tuning of electrical and mechanical properties of expanded graphite (EG) based composites
Composite materials based on three kinds of commercial thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPUs) and electrically conductive expanded graphite (EG) were...
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Design and Manufacturing of Flexible Finger Prosthesis Using 3D Printing
3D printing is an emerging technology for the manufacturing of prostheses with the potential for low resource configurations. However, studies using...
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Edge Intelligence for Medical Applications Under Field Conditions
Deep neural networks reached high accuracy in the wide range of task, like computer vision, detection and natural language processing. This became...
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Analysis of Bending Abilities of Soft Pneumatic Actuator
Pneumatic gripper uses compressed air to operate its actuators (fingers). Unlike the conventional metallic gripper, soft pneumatic actuator (SPA) can...
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Development of cost-effective IoT module-based pipe classification system for flexible manufacturing system of painting process of high-pressure pipe
This paper researches an IoT module-based pipe classification system for a flexible manufacturing system that recognizes the size and length of pipes...
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Grasp2Hardness: fuzzy hardness inference of cylindrical objects for grasp force adjustment of force sensor-less robots
Service robots frequently operate various cylindrical objects with unknown physical properties, which demands the grippers of robots being equipped...
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Dielectric Relaxation Phenomena of TiO2 Filled Polyurethane and Polyaniline Blend Nanocomposites
Titanium oxide nanoparticle (TiO2)-based thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) and highly conductive polyaniline (PANI) multifunctional nanocomposites are...