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 …

[HTML][HTML] Pneumatic soft robots: Challenges and benefits

H Su, X Hou, X Zhang, W Qi, S Cai, X **
R Deimel, O Brock - The International Journal of Robotics …, 2016‏ - journals.sagepub.com
The usefulness and versatility of a robotic end-effector depends on the diversity of grasps it
can accomplish and also on the complexity of the control methods required to achieve them …

New soft robots really suck: Vacuum-powered systems empower diverse capabilities

MA Robertson, J Paik - Science Robotics, 2017‏ - science.org
We introduce a vacuum-powered soft pneumatic actuator (V-SPA) that leverages a single,
shared vacuum power supply and enables complex soft robotic systems with multiple …