Control strategies for soft robotic manipulators: A survey

T George Thuruthel, Y Ansari, E Falotico, C Laschi - Soft robotics, 2018‏ - liebertpub.com
With the rise of soft robotics technology and applications, there have been increasing
interests in the development of controllers appropriate for their particular design. Being …

Design, fabrication and control of soft robots

D Rus, MT Tolley - Nature, 2015‏ - nature.com
Conventionally, engineers have employed rigid materials to fabricate precise, predictable
robotic systems, which are easily modelled as rigid members connected at discrete joints …

Soft manipulators and grippers: A review

J Hughes, U Culha, F Giardina, F Guenther… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2016‏ - frontiersin.org
Soft robotics is a growing area of research which utilizes the compliance and adaptability of
soft structures to develop highly adaptive robotics for soft interactions. One area in which soft …

Intelligent soft surgical robots for next‐generation minimally invasive surgery

J Zhu, L Lyu, Y Xu, H Liang, X Zhang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Endowed with the expected visions for future surgery, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has
become one of the most rapid develo** areas in modern surgery. Soft robotics, which …

A recipe for soft fluidic elastomer robots

AD Marchese, RK Katzschmann, D Rus - Soft robotics, 2015‏ - liebertpub.com
This work provides approaches to designing and fabricating soft fluidic elastomer robots.
That is, three viable actuator morphologies composed entirely from soft silicone rubber are …

Design, kinematics, and control of a soft spatial fluidic elastomer manipulator

AD Marchese, D Rus - The International Journal of Robotics …, 2016‏ - journals.sagepub.com
This paper presents a robotic manipulation system capable of autonomously positioning a
multi-segment soft fluidic elastomer robot in three dimensions. Specifically, we present an …

Visual servoing of soft robot manipulator in constrained environments with an adaptive controller

H Wang, B Yang, Y Liu, W Chen… - … ASME transactions on …, 2016‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is unavoidable for a soft manipulator to interact with environments during some tasks.
These interactions may affect the soft manipulator and make the kinematic model different …

Underwater soft robotics: A review of bioinspiration in design, actuation, modeling, and control

SM Youssef, MA Soliman, MA Saleh, MA Mousa… - Micromachines, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Nature and biological creatures are some of the main sources of inspiration for humans.
Engineers have aspired to emulate these natural systems. As rigid systems become …

Design and control of a soft and continuously deformable 2d robotic manipulation system

AD Marchese, K Komorowski… - … conference on robotics …, 2014‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we describe the design, fabrication, control, and experimental validation of a
soft and highly compliant 2D manipulator. The arm consists of several body segments …

Vision-based online learning kinematic control for soft robots using local gaussian process regression

G Fang, X Wang, K Wang, KH Lee… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft robots, owing to their elastomeric material, ensure safe interaction with their
surroundings. These robot compliance properties inevitably impose a tradeoff against …