With the rise of soft robotics technology and applications, there have been increasing
interests in the development of controllers appropriate for their particular design. Being …

Soft robotics is a recent and rapidly growing field of research that encompasses emerging
advances in functional materials, fabrication, modelling, and performance control with …

Dynamic control of soft robotic manipulators is an open problem yet to be well explored and
analyzed. Most of the current applications of soft robotic manipulators utilize static or quasi …

Leveraging the elastic bodies of soft robots promises to enable the execution of dynamic
motions as well as compliant and safe interaction with an unstructured environment …

The soft capabilities of biological appendages like the arms of Octopus vulgaris and
elephants' trunks have inspired roboticists to develop their robotic equivalents. Although …

Real-world environments are complex, unstructured, and often fragile. Soft robotics offers a
solution for robots to safely interact with the environment and human coworkers, but suffers …

A reliable, accurate, and yet simple dynamic model is important to analyzing, designing, and
controlling hybrid rigid–continuum robots. Such models should be fast, as simple as …

Despite the rise of development in continuum manipulator technology and application, a
model-based feedback closed-loop control appropriate for continuum robot designs has …

This paper presents a novel spatial kinematic model for multisection continuum arms based
on mode shape functions (MSF). Modal methods have been used in many disciplines from …

In this article, the control problem of one segment pneumatically actuated soft robotic arm is
investigated in detail. To date, extensive prior work has been done in soft robotics …