Recent advances in perceptive intelligence for soft robotics

Z Lin, Z Wang, W Zhao, Y Xu, X Wang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decade, soft robot research has expanded to diverse fields, including
biomedicine, bionics, service robots, human–robot interaction, and artificial intelligence …

Exploring embodied intelligence in soft robotics: a review

Z Zhao, Q Wu, J Wang, B Zhang, C Zhong… - Biomimetics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Soft robotics is closely related to embodied intelligence in the joint exploration of the means
to achieve more natural and effective robotic behaviors via physical forms and intelligent …

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 …

Softzoo: A soft robot co-design benchmark for locomotion in diverse environments

TH Wang, P Ma, AE Spielberg, Z **an, H Zhang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
While significant research progress has been made in robot learning for control, unique
challenges arise when simultaneously co-optimizing morphology. Existing work has typically …

Sorotoki: a Matlab toolkit for design, modeling, and control of soft robots

BJ Caasenbrood, AY Pogromsky, H Nijmeijer - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present Sorotoki, an open-source toolkit in MATLAB that offers a
comprehensive suite of tools for the design, modeling, and control of soft robots. The …

[HTML][HTML] Design, modelling, and control of continuum arms with pneumatic artificial muscles: A review

O Sokolov, A Hošovský, M Trojanová - Machines, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this research paper, we present a comprehensive analysis of the current state of soft
robots actuated with pneumatic artificial muscles and emphasise their distinct advantages …

Precise control of soft robots amidst uncertain environmental contacts and forces

X Huang, Z Yuan, X Yang, G Gu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent studies have reported on the remarkable ability of bioinspired soft robots to exhibit
dexterous and contact-friendly motions. However, for these robots with deformable bodies, it …

DisMech: A discrete differential geometry-based physical simulator for soft robots and structures

A Choi, R **g, AP Sabelhaus… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fast, accurate, and generalizable simulations are a key enabler of modern advances in
robot design and control. However, existing simulation frameworks in robotics either model …

Controlling soft robotic arms using hybrid modelling and reinforcement learning

G Lou, C Wang, Z Xu, J Liang… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft robotic arms exhibit high deformability and degrees of freedom, which brings
challenges in modeling accuracy and susceptibility to gravitational effects, resulting in …