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 …

Toward perceptive soft robots: Progress and challenges

H Wang, M Totaro, L Beccai - Advanced Science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In the past few years, soft robotics has rapidly become an emerging research topic, opening
new possibilities for addressing real‐world tasks. Perception can enable robots to effectively …

[HTML][HTML] Soft robotics: A review of recent developments of pneumatic soft actuators

J Walker, T Zidek, C Harbel, S Yoon, FS Strickland… - Actuators, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper focuses on the recent development of soft pneumatic actuators for soft robotics
over the past few years, concentrating on the following four categories: control systems …

Toward a common framework and database of materials for soft robotics

L Marechal, P Balland, L Lindenroth, F Petrou… - Soft robotics, 2021 - liebertpub.com
To advance the field of soft robotics, a unified database of material constitutive models and
experimental characterizations is of paramount importance. This will facilitate the use of …

Finite element modeling of soft fluidic actuators: Overview and recent developments

MS Xavier, AJ Fleming, YK Yong - Advanced Intelligent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Many soft robots are composed of soft fluidic actuators that are fabricated from silicone
rubbers and use hydraulic or pneumatic actuation. The strong nonlinearities and complex …

Decade of bio-inspired soft robots: A review

F Ahmed, M Waqas, B Jawed… - Smart Materials and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Soft robotics is an emerging field of robotics that focuses on the design of soft machines and
devices with effective human-machine interaction, high conformity, and environmental …

Automatic design of fiber-reinforced soft actuators for trajectory matching

F Connolly, CJ Walsh, K Bertoldi - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2017 - pnas.org
Soft actuators are the components responsible for producing motion in soft robots. Although
soft actuators have allowed for a variety of innovative applications, there is a need for design …

Intelligent soft surgical robots for next‐generation minimally invasive surgery

J Zhu, L Lyu, Y Xu, H Liang, X Zhang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Endowed with the expected visions for future surgery, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has
become one of the most rapid develo** areas in modern surgery. Soft robotics, which …