Soft robots represent an emerging class of biologically-inspired machines that are primarily
composed of elastomers, fluids, and other forms of soft matter. Current examples include …

In recent years, small celestial bodies (SCBs) exploration missions have attracted extensive
attention. For the purposes of space resource exploitation and earth defense, revealing the …

Earthworms can move beneath soil by expanding parts of their bodies radially; bristles
called setae work as anchors during surface locomotion but their efficacy during subsurface …

Abstract Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) are a group of metallic alloys that can return to their
original shape when subjected to a temperature transformation between two phases. SMAs …

Controlling the pneumatic muscle actuator (PMA) represents a challenging problem in soft
robotics research field, it is difficult for the soft robot to achieve a good control performance …

The utility of electrically-driven peristaltic flow to enhance the mechanical efficiency of a
biological system is diverse. This motivates us to discuss the mathematical modelling of …

Flexible actuators are a kind of driving device that can convert one or more stimuli in the
environment into mechanical motion, and are an important part of the field of smart materials …

Soft robots represent an emerging generation in the robotics research field, these soft robots
operate by employing the pneumatic muscle actuator (PMA). Controlling the PMA is a big …

Organisms have evolved many simple yet effective muscular movements. Of these,
peristaltic wave motion is among the most prolific and can be found across organism scales …

After a discussion of the types of requirements to be met for designing a shape memory alloy
(SMA) actuator, a strategy is described to identify the fundamental work points (preload and …