Pneumatic soft robots: Challenges and benefits

H Su, X Hou, X Zhang, W Qi, S Cai, X **ong, J Guo - Actuators, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the field of robotics, soft robots have been showing great potential in the areas of medical
care, education, service, rescue, exploration, detection, and wearable devices due to their …

Soft robotics: A systematic review and bibliometric analysis

DM Rusu, SD Mândru, CM Biriș, OL Petrașcu… - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
In recent years, soft robotics has developed considerably, especially since the year 2018
when it became a hot field among current research topics. The attention that this field …

Dynamic control of soft robotic arm: A simulation study

M Azizkhani, IS Godage, Y Chen - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Kinematics and stiffness modeling of soft robot with a concentric backbone

Q **ao, M Musa, IS Godage… - Journal of …, 2023 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Soft robots can undergo large elastic deformations and adapt to complex shapes. However,
they lack the structural strength to withstand external loads due to the intrinsic compliance of …

Non-metallic MR-guided concentric tube robot for intracerebral hemorrhage evacuation

AL Gunderman, S Sengupta, E Siampli… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: We aim to develop and evaluate an MR-conditional concentric tube robot for
intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) evacuation. Methods: We fabricated the concentric tube …

[HTML][HTML] Design and calibration of 3D printed soft deformation sensors for soft actuator control

Q Ji, J Jansson, M Sjöberg, XV Wang, L Wang, L Feng - Mechatronics, 2023 - Elsevier
Soft actuators made from compliant materials are superior to conventional rigid robots in
terms of flexibility, adaptability and safety. However, an inherent drawback of soft actuator is …

Dynamic control of soft robotic arm: An experimental study

M Azizkhani, AL Gunderman… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The objective of this letter is to investigate the dynamic control of a soft robotic arm. First, a
modular soft robotic hardware and an affordable actuator-space encoder were presented …

A surgical platform for intracerebral hemorrhage robotic evacuation (aspihre): A non-metallic mr-guided concentric tube robot

AL Gunderman, S Sengupta, E Siampli… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is the deadliest stroke sub-type, with a one-month mortality
rate as high as 52%. Due to the potential cortical disruption caused by craniotomy …

Hybrid Soft Actuator With Metamaterial-Inspired Skeleton for Adjusting Mechanical Properties: Design, Modeling, and Experiments

J Zhang, H Wang, Y Hao, W Ni… - IEEE/ASME Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft robots have demonstrated significant potential in numerous fields due to their inherent
compliance; however, the soft nature of their actuators poses challenges for applications …

Laser endoscopic manipulator using spring-reinforced multi-DoF soft actuator

B Zhang, P Yang, X Gu, H Liao - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The flexible manipulators and related robotic systems have been widely used in minimally
invasive surgery (MIS) for enhancing the intraoperative inspection and surgical operation …