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 …
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JM Kim, A Coutinho, YJ Park… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Octopuses can use as few as a single sucker to grab and hold onto objects as each sucker
creates its own vacuum pressure using their individual muscles. Man-made suction arrays …

A novel variable stiffness soft robotic gripper

DDK Arachchige, Y Chen, ID Walker… - 2021 IEEE 17th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Compliant gras** is crucial for secure handling objects not only vary in shapes but also in
mechanical properties. We propose a novel soft robotic gripper with decoupled stiffness and …

Highly shape-adaptable honeycomb gripper using orthotropic surface tension

YS Seo, JY Lee, C Park, J Park, BK Han… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Astrictive-type grippers, which generate grip** forces from adhesive forces at the contact
surface, such as suction cup, are popular end-effectors as picking solutions because of their …

A novel scaffold-reinforced actuator with tunable attitude ability for gras**

P Jiang, J Luo, J Li, MZQ Chen, Y Chen… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Owing to high compliance, adaptiveness, and easy controllability, soft actuators are widely
adopted in soft grippers to grasp irregularly shaped or fragile objects. The specific motions …

A Human finger-inspired shape-locking pneumatic gripper enabled by folding laminar jamming structure

X Yin, P Zhou, J ** with the advantages of flexibility and
universality have been widely used in take-and-place tasks. However, this type of gripper …

A paper fortune teller-inspired reconfigurable soft pneumatic gripper

R Chen, C Zhang, Y Sun, T Yu, XM Shen… - Smart Materials and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Soft pneumatic grippers (SPGs) have shown great gras** performances for various
objects due to their simplicity, adaptability and rapid response. However, there are few SPGs …

Shape-conformable suction cups with controllable adaptive suction on complex surfaces

T Yue, H Bloomfield-Gadêlha… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Suction is widely used in industry, but the adaptation of state-of-the-art suction cups on
complex surfaces (ie, curved, cornered, uneven, rough, etc.) are still limited. In this letter, we …

Liquid‐Amplified Electrostatically Driven Octopus Sucker‐Inspired Suction Cup

Y Sun, L Tang, L Wang, Q Guo, Y Lv… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Adhesion and detachment technologies play a crucial role in various fields, including
industrial robot handling, transfer printing, medical applications, and crawling robot …