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 …

A review on self-healing polymers for soft robotics

S Terryn, J Langenbach, E Roels, J Brancart… - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
The intrinsic compliance of soft robots provides safety, a natural adaptation to its
environment, allows to absorb shocks, and protects them against mechanical impacts …

Review of machine learning methods in soft robotics

D Kim, SH Kim, T Kim, BB Kang, M Lee, W Park, S Ku… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Soft robots have been extensively researched due to their flexible, deformable, and adaptive
characteristics. However, compared to rigid robots, soft robots have issues in modeling …

A review of 3D‐printable soft pneumatic actuators and sensors: research challenges and opportunities

C Tawk, G Alici - Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The soft robotics field is changing the way people think, build, interact, and most importantly
perceive robots. Robots have long been perceived as machines made of metals that their …

A review of soft actuator motion: Actuation, design, manufacturing and applications

X Tang, H Li, T Ma, Y Yang, J Luo, H Wang, P Jiang - Actuators, 2022 - mdpi.com
Compared with traditional rigid robots, soft robots have high flexibility, low stiffness, and
adaptability to unstructured environments, and as such have great application potential in …

Exo-glove PM: An easily customizable modularized pneumatic assistive glove

SS Yun, BB Kang, KJ Cho - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Customization is an important issue for assistive gloves because it affects glove
performance. In this letter, we propose an assembly based customizable soft pneumatic …

Vacuum‐powered soft pneumatic twisting actuators to empower new capabilities for soft robots

Z Jiao, C Ji, J Zou, H Yang… - Advanced Materials …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Vacuum‐powered soft pneumatic actuators (V‐SPAs) are a promising enabling technology
for a wide range of emerging applications, including artificial muscles, programmable …

Printed silicone pneumatic actuators for soft robotics

B Sparrman, C Du Pasquier, C Thomsen, S Darbari… - Additive …, 2021 - Elsevier
A silicone-based embedded additive manufacturing method, called Rapid Liquid Printing
(RLP) is applied to the fabrication of soft pneumatic actuators to investigate and demonstrate …

Self‐Amputating and Interfusing Machines

B Yang, AM Nasab, SJ Woodman, E Thomas… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Biological organisms exhibit phenomenal adaptation through morphology‐shifting
mechanisms including self‐amputation, regeneration, and collective behavior. For example …

4D printing: historical evolution, computational insights and emerging applications

MR Manshor, YA Alli, H Anuar… - Materials Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Four-dimensional printing (4DP) has gained tremendous interest in the field of
materials and manufacturing due to its shape changing properties. Unlike three-dimensional …