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 …

Soft robots modeling: A structured overview

C Armanini, F Boyer, AT Mathew… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The robotics community has seen an exponential growth in the level of complexity of the
theoretical tools presented for the modeling of soft robotics devices. Different solutions have …

Modeling and simulation of dynamics in soft robotics: A review of numerical approaches

L Qin, H Peng, X Huang, M Liu, W Huang - Current Robotics Reports, 2024 - Springer
Purpose of review In this review, we briefly summarize the numerical methods commonly
used for the nonlinear dynamic analysis of soft robotic systems. The underlying mechanical …

Increasing the payload capacity of soft robot arms by localized stiffening

D Bruder, MA Graule, CB Teeple, RJ Wood - Science Robotics, 2023 - science.org
Soft robot arms offer safety and adaptability due to their passive compliance, but this
compliance typically limits their payload capacity and prevents them from performing many …

Rl-based adaptive controller for high precision reaching in a soft robot arm

MS Nazeer, C Laschi, E Falotico - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High precision control of soft robots is challenging due to their stohcastic behavior and
material-dependent nature. While RL has been applied in soft robotics, achieving precision …

Sorosim: A matlab toolbox for hybrid rigid–soft robots based on the geometric variable-strain approach

AT Mathew, IB Hmida, C Armanini… - IEEE Robotics & …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft robotics has been a trending topic within the robotics community for almost two
decades. However, available tools for the modeling and analysis of soft robots are still …

Advances and future outlooks in soft robotics for minimally invasive marine biology

DF Gruber, RJ Wood - Science Robotics, 2022 - science.org
This Viewpoint describes interdisciplinary research that aims to maximize understanding of
deep marine life, while concurrently being minimally invasive. We describe the synthesis of …

SoMoGym: A toolkit for develo** and evaluating controllers and reinforcement learning algorithms for soft robots

MA Graule, TP McCarthy, CB Teeple… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft robotsoffer a host of benefits over traditional rigid robots, including inherent compliance
that lets them passively adapt to variable environments and operate safely around humans …

Reduced order modeling and model order reduction for continuum manipulators: an overview

SMH Sadati, SE Naghibi, L Da Cruz… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Soft robot's natural dynamics calls for the development of tailored modeling techniques for
control. However, the high-dimensional configuration space of the geometrically exact …

[PDF][PDF] Developments and trend maps for soft continuum manipulators and soft snake robots

VS Rajashekhar, G Prabhakar - Foundations and Trends® in …, 2024 - researchgate.net
Soft robots are more human-friendly than rigid-bodied robots. This is due to their soft nature
that does not harm humans while interacting. This work provides the developments and …