Intelligent soft robotic grippers for agricultural and food product handling: A brief review with a focus on design and control

Y Liu, J Hou, C Li, X Wang - Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in material sciences, control algorithms, and manufacturing techniques have
facilitated rapid progress in soft grippers, propelling their adoption in various fields. In this …

A Comparative Analysis and Sco** Review of Soft–Rigid and Industrial Parallel Rigid Grippers

L Li, D Crosby, M Shuttleworth, OF Argin… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In this research, it is aimed to present a comparative analysis of soft–rigid industrial parallel
rigid grippers to compare their technical capabilities and assess the potential for soft–rigid …

Wiring-claw gripper for soft-stable picking up multiple objects

WT Chow - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Efficiently picking up multiple objects is an emergent challenge for soft robotics. Our work
focused on a novel gripper in picking up multiple objects in one gras** trial. The objects …

Soft Finger Rehabilitation Exoskeleton of Biomimetic Dragonfly Abdominal Ventral Muscles: Center Tendon Pneumatic Bellows Actuator

D Duanmu, X Li, W Huang, Y Hu - Biomimetics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The development of soft robotics owes much to the field of biomimetics, where soft actuators
predominantly mimic the movement found in nature. In contrast to their rigid counterparts …

Reconfigurable, Transformable Soft Pneumatic Actuator with Tunable Three-Dimensional Deformations for Dexterous Soft Robotics Applications

DCY Wong, M Li, S Kang, L Luo, H Yu - Soft Robotics, 2024 - liebertpub.com
Numerous soft actuators based on pneumatic network (PneuNet) design have already been
proposed and extensively employed across various soft robotics applications in recent …

Soft-Rigid Hybrid Revolute and Prismatic Joints Using Multilayered Bellow-Type Soft Pneumatic Actuators: Design, Characterization, and Its Application as Soft-Rigid …

PS Lee, C Sjaarda, RZ Gao, J Dupuis… - Soft …, 2024 - liebertpub.com
Despite the exponentially expanding capabilities of robotic systems with the introduction of
soft robotics, the lack of practical considerations in designing and integrating soft robotic …

DexiTac: Soft Dexterous Tactile Grip**

C Lu, K Tang, M Yang, T Yue, H Li… - … ASME Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gras** objects—whether they are flat, round, or narrow and whether they have regular or
irregular shapes—introduces difficulties in determining the ideal gras** posture, even for …

Spatial Position–Force Perception for a Soft Parallel Joint via Pressure-Deformation Self-Sensing

Y Su, X Chen, Z Fang, D Liu, J Lam… - … /ASME Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic perception, the ability to detect internal position and orientation and external stimuli,
enables robots to interact safely with humans and manipulate safely in unstructured …

Soft robotic joints with anisotropic stiffness by multiobjective topology optimization

S Chen, G Zhou, D Li, Z Song… - IEEE/ASME Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft robots inherit several merits associated with compliant mechanisms, including
frictionless, monolithic fabrication, and backlash-free operation. Moreover, the incorporation …

A Dexterous and Compliant (DexCo) Hand Based on Soft Hydraulic Actuation for Human Inspired Fine In-Hand Manipulation

J Zhou, J Huang, Q Dou, P Abeel… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Human beings possess a remarkable skill for fine in-hand manipulation, utilizing both
intrafinger interactions (in-finger) and finger–environment interactions across a wide range …