Textile electronics for wearable applications

J Pu, K Ma, Y Luo, S Tang, T Liu, J Liu… - … Journal of Extreme …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Textile electronics have become an indispensable part of wearable applications because of
their large flexibility, light-weight, comfort and electronic functionality upon the merge of …

[HTML][HTML] Soft gloves: a review on recent developments in actuation, sensing, control and applications

M Tiboni, C Amici - Actuators, 2022 - mdpi.com
Interest in soft gloves, both robotic and haptic, has enormously grown over the past decade,
due to their inherent compliance, which makes them particularly suitable for direct …

Haptiknit: Distributed stiffness knitting for wearable haptics

C du Pasquier, L Tessmer, I Scholl, L Tilton, T Chen… - Science Robotics, 2024 - science.org
Haptic devices typically rely on rigid actuators and bulky power supply systems, limiting
wearability. Soft materials improve comfort, but careful distribution of stiffness is required to …

Crawling, climbing, perching, and flying by FiBa soft robots

T Ching, JZW Lee, SKH Win, LST Win, D Sufiyan… - Science Robotics, 2024 - science.org
This paper introduces an approach to fabricating lightweight, untethered soft robots capable
of diverse biomimetic locomotion. Untethering soft robotics from electrical or pneumatic …

Encoded sewing soft textile robots

X Guo, W Li, F Fang, H Chen, L Zhao, X Fang, Z Yi… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Incorporating soft actuation with soft yet durable textiles could effectively endow the latter
with active and flexible shape morphing and motion like mollusks and plants. However …

Fluidic computation kit: Towards electronic-free shape-changing interfaces

Q Lu, H Xu, Y Guo, JY Wang, L Yao - … of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Although fluidic computation has been utilized to develop interactive devices in the field of
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), the limited computation complexity of previous work …

FibeRobo: Fabricating 4D fiber interfaces by continuous drawing of temperature tunable liquid crystal elastomers

J Forman, O Kilic Afsar, S Nicita, RHJ Lin… - Proceedings of the 36th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We present FibeRobo, a thermally-actuated liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) fiber that can be
embedded or structured into textiles and enable silent and responsive interactions with …

Functional Destruction: Utilizing Sustainable Materials' Physical Transiency for Electronics Applications

T Cheng, T Tabb, JW Park, EM Gallo… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Today's electronics are manufactured to provide stable functionality and fixed physical forms
optimized for reliable operation over long periods and repeated use. However, even when …

Knitscript: A domain-specific scripting language for advanced machine knitting

M Hofmann, L Albaugh, T Wang, J Mankoff… - Proceedings of the 36th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Knitting machines can fabricate complex fabric structures using robust industrial fabrication
machines. However, machine knitting's full capabilities are only available through low-level …

Unravelling the mechanics of knitted fabrics through hierarchical geometric representation

X Ding, V Sanchez, K Bertoldi… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Knitting interloops one-dimensional yarns into three-dimensional fabrics that exhibit
behaviour beyond their constitutive materials. How extensibility and anisotropy emerge from …