A soft-rigid hybrid gripper with lateral compliance and dexterous in-hand manipulation

W Zhu, C Lu, Q Zheng, Z Fang, H Che… - IEEE/ASME …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft grippers are receiving growing attention due to their compliance-based interactive
safety and dexterity. Hybrid gripper with soft actuators enhanced by rigid constraints is …

Numerical investigation of novel 3D-SPA for grip** analysis in multi-environment

B Wang, T Yu - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
The soft pneumatic actuator (SPA) has strong flexibility and good compliance, allowing its
assembly into a multi-functional soft gripper that can be applied to object gras** and …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing compliant gripper performance: Exploiting electro-adhesion to increase lifting force over gras** force

A Carloni, M Valori, F Bertolucci, L Agostini… - Robotics and Computer …, 2025 - Elsevier
On the landscape of solutions to deal with delicate objects, the development and use of soft
grippers is a topic of increasing interest, with a large number of prototypes proposed by the …

Design of thick panels origami-inspired flexible grasper with anti-interference ability

R Wang, X Li, H Huang - Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper designs a flexible grasper (GXU-F-Grasper) inspired by thick panel origami. This
grasper can change its shape to fit the working environment according to any structure in the …

Experimental investigation on adaptive gras** of a novel 3D-MSSPA gripper in complex space

B Wang, T Yu, X Ye, S Natarajan - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2024 - Elsevier
Many achievements for soft grippers are made in the structure design and gras** of target
objects. However, there are limited studies on gras** objects with different attributes by …

Design and 3D printing of paper-based shape memory polymer actuated for soft lightweight fingers

CT Chen, RC Peng - Smart Materials and Structures, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Smart materials and devices that possess multiple functions of sensing and actuation have
been investigated over decades as being exploited for soft robots in various applications …

One-DOF six-bar space gripper with multiple operation modes and force adaptability

Z Zhang, Y Zhang, M Ning, Z Zhou, Z Wu, J Zhao… - Aerospace Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
For complex space tasks, the gripper is expected to adapt to items of different shapes and
sizes; it has the advantages of simple control and acceptable force adaptability. Therefore, a …