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 …

Soft grippers for automatic crop harvesting: A review

E Navas, R Fernández, D Sepúlveda, M Armada… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Agriculture 4.0 is transforming farming livelihoods thanks to the development and adoption
of technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and robotics, traditionally …

Desktop fabrication of monolithic soft robotic devices with embedded fluidic control circuits

Y Zhai, A De Boer, J Yan, B Shih, M Faber, J Speros… - Science Robotics, 2023 - science.org
Most soft robots are pneumatically actuated and fabricated by molding and assembling
processes that typically require many manual operations and limit complexity. Furthermore …

Gras** with kirigami shells

Y Yang, K Vella, DP Holmes - Science Robotics, 2021 - science.org
The ability to grab, hold, and manipulate objects is a vital and fundamental operation in
biological and engineering systems. Here, we present a soft gripper using a simple material …

A prestressed soft gripper: design, modeling, fabrication, and tests for food handling

Z Wang, Y Torigoe, S Hirai - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study presented a prestressed soft gripper fabricated with 3-D printing technology. The
gripper can realize a large contact area while gras** and simultaneously generate large …

Electro-pneumatic pumps for soft robotics

RS Diteesawat, T Helps, M Taghavi, J Rossiter - Science robotics, 2021 - science.org
Soft robotics has applications in myriad fields from assistive wearables to autonomous
exploration. Now, the portability and the performance of many devices are limited by their …

RBO Hand 3: A Platform for Soft Dexterous Manipulation

S Puhlmann, J Harris, O Brock - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we present the RBO Hand 3, a highly capable and versatile anthropomorphic
soft hand based on pneumatic actuation. The RBO Hand 3 is designed to enable dexterous …

A 3D-printed omni-purpose soft gripper

C Tawk, A Gillett, M in het Panhuis… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Numerous soft grippers have been developed based on smart materials, pneumatic soft
actuators, and underactuated compliant structures. In this article, we present a three …

Enhancing the universality of a pneumatic gripper via continuously adjustable initial grasp postures

Y Cui, XJ Liu, X Dong, J Zhou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, various soft universal grippers have been developed due to their reduced control
complexity and satisfying gras** capability. The grip** range of a gripper plays a key …