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Cubic marine robotics
Modular robotics offers design flexibility that could enable the scale-up of robotic systems for marine applications. We have developed simple repeating cubic modular components that can be assembled and recon...
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Open AccessAnalysis of Heading Stability due to Interactions between Pectoral and Caudal Fins in Robotic Boxfish Locomotion
Investigating the interaction between fins can guide the design and enhance the performance of robotic fish. In this paper, we take boxfish as the bionic object and discuss the effect of coupling motion gaits ...
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Open AccessReview of Soft Linear Actuator and the Design of a Dielectric Elastomer Linear Actuator
Natural muscle provides excellent motilities for animals. As the basic unit of the muscle system, the skeletal muscle fibers function as a soft linear actuator. Inspired by the muscle fibers, researchers have ...
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Rate Dependent Stress-Stretch Relation of Dielectric Elastomers Subjected to Pure Shear Like Loading and Electric Field
The performance of dielectric elastomer (DE) transducers is significantly affected by viscoelastic relaxation-induced electromechanical dissipations. This paper presents an experimental study to obtain the rat...