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 …

Control strategies for soft robot systems

J Wang, A Chortos - Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soft robots have recently attracted increased attention because their characteristics of low‐
cost fabrication, durability, and deformability make them uniquely suited for applications in …

Soft robots modeling: A structured overview

C Armanini, F Boyer, AT Mathew… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The robotics community has seen an exponential growth in the level of complexity of the
theoretical tools presented for the modeling of soft robotics devices. Different solutions have …

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 …

Model-based reinforcement learning for closed-loop dynamic control of soft robotic manipulators

TG Thuruthel, E Falotico, F Renda… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dynamic control of soft robotic manipulators is an open problem yet to be well explored and
analyzed. Most of the current applications of soft robotic manipulators utilize static or quasi …

Challenges of continuum robots in clinical context: a review

T da Veiga, JH Chandler, P Lloyd… - Progress in …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
With the maturity of surgical robotic systems based on traditional rigid-link principles, the rate
of progress slowed as limits of size and controllable degrees of freedom were reached …

3D/4D-printed bending-type soft pneumatic actuators: Fabrication, modelling, and control

A Zolfagharian, MAP Mahmud, S Gharaie… - Virtual and Physical …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This article reviews soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) that are manufactured entirely via
additive manufacturing methods. These actuators are known as four-dimensional (4D) …

Machine learning for soft robotic sensing and control

K Chin, T Hellebrekers, C Majidi - Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, the progress of machine learning methods in the field of soft robotics, specifically in
the applications of sensing and control, is outlined. Data‐driven methods such as machine …

Hierarchical control of soft manipulators towards unstructured interactions

H Jiang, Z Wang, Y **, X Chen, P Li… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Performing daily interaction tasks such as opening doors and pulling drawers in
unstructured environments is a challenging problem for robots. The emergence of soft …

Closed-loop dynamic control of a soft manipulator using deep reinforcement learning

A Centurelli, L Arleo, A Rizzo, S Tolu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The focus of the research community in the soft robotic field has been on develo**
innovative materials, but the design of control strategies applicable to these robotic platforms …