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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"soft robotics"”.
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Design and fabrication of next-generation biological soft robotics
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Between rigid and soft robotics : discrete assembly of heterogeneous cellular structures
… to create mechanisms, end effectors, and limbs. Soft robotics is a subfield of robotics which utilizes highly compliant materials to create bio-inspired movement. The field is of high interest at the moment, as it presents new opportunities for adapting and navigating in environments difficult …
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Soft Robotics Applied to the Development of a Diaphragm Assist System
… and swallowing. This thesis works towards a soft robotic alternative that aims to intervene internally at the diaphragm as opposed to the mouth. For medical problems that are mechanical in nature, soft robotics offer a promising solution by coupling advanced robotic control with soft elements …
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Modeling and design of fiber reinforced pneumatic actuators for soft robotics applications
Soft robotics is an emerging branch of robotics where the objective is to make robot structures soft and compliant. These robots trade accuracy and load bearing ability with adaptability and safety. Such robots require soft actuators to generate force and/or motion. Fiber reinforced pneumatic …
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One-Dimensional Nanostructured Materials And Manufacturing of Deformable Electronics For Healthcare and Soft Robotics
Engineered electronic systems in soft format with their ability to accommodate mechanical deformations are the drivers for emerging wearable health monitors, implantable electronics, AI-augmented bionic prosthetics and intelligent soft robotics. One dimensional (1D) nanostructures of electronic …
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Gauging student interests and comfort with robotics terms after participating in a soft robotics activity
Robotics has been successfully used in a wide array of educational applications, from K-12 classrooms in the pre-engineering setting to university laboratories teaching advanced applications. However, studies revealed that the participants in robotics education are predominantly male. It is …
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A Biologically Inspired Soft-Bodied Bellows-Driven Stomach Robot: Concept, Design and Validation
… expand like biological examples. Therefore, a soft-bodied stomach robot can simulate peristaltic waves realistically and perform in-vitro simulations and experiments. Soft robotics is an emerging field that introduces promising engineering methods that replicate biological behaviours. Soft …
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Design and testing of fiber-constrained electroactive polymer
Soft robotics take advantage of active materials to regenerate many complex motions, including low-force functions, such as camouflage, micro-grabbing, or agile locomotion of micro robot. For these applications, traditional actuators, like electric motors and combustion engines, are unnecessarily …
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Design and Characterization of a Pressure Controller Test Stand for Soft Pneumatic Actuator Testing
Soft pneumatic actuator design has been of interest to the soft robotics community in recent years for their potential to expand the roles of robotics systems in human-interacting medical devices and delicate manufacturing processes. Unfortunately, it is difficult to analytically predict the …
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Design and Performance of a Highly Mobile, Climbing, Wheeled, Soft-bodied Robot
… uninhibited. There is also an unexplored area in robotics at the intersection of wheeled and soft robotics. This thesis aims to address the need of a highly mobile small robot while initiating the exploration of this promising merger of fields. This work presents a design and proof-of-concept …
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Electroactive polymer actuators: theory and computations
… polymer actuators an attractive choice for soft robotics applications, where they are sometimes referred to as “artificial muscles”. We present continuum-mechanical theories and finite element computations for three common types of electroactive polymer actuators: (1) ionic polymer-metal …
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Soft Robotic Platforms for the Simulation of Cardiovascular Disease and Device Development
… This thesis delves into the exploration of soft robotics in disease modeling, a promising avenue for faithfully replicating the biomechanical aspects of human disease in a patient-specific manner. In addition to supporting the development and evaluation of medical devices, high-fidelity …
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Additively Manufactured Dielectric Elastomer Actuators: Development and Performance Enhancement
… recently emerging and actively growing areas of soft robotics and morphing structures promise endless opportunities in a wide range of engineering fields, including biomedical, industrial, and aerospace. Soft actuators and sensors are essential components of any soft robot or morphing structure. …
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An investigation into biomimetic gripping based on insect tarsal chains
… this fact has resulted in the inception of soft grippers - systems that are softer, more compliant and - often - come without discrete joints. These properties make them more robust against uncertainties in gripping tasks, and uncontrolled environments. While soft robotics as a field has …
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Soft Morphological Computation
Soft Robotics is a relatively new area of research, where progress in material science has powered the next generation of robots, exhibiting biological-like properties such as soft/elastic tissues, compliance, resilience and more besides. One of the issues when employing soft robotics technologies …
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3D-PRINTED MICROFLUIDICS FOR BIOMIMICRY
… organ-on-a-chip) and macroscale (i.e., soft robotics).
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Biofunctional hydrogels for skeletal muscle constructs
… and force regimes. Hence, the interest in soft robotics and regenerative medicine methods to engineer skeletal muscle has increased in recent years. The challenges to generate a functional muscle strip are typical to those of tissue engineering, where common issues such as cell source, …
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Pneumatic variable stiffness soft robot end effectors
… the item being held. The relatively new field of soft robotics is inspired by nature, particularly animals which do not have skeletons but which still have the ability to move and grasp in a skilful manner. Soft robotics seeks to replicate this ability through the use of new actuation technologies …
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Design tools for linear viscoelastic fluids
… materials (non-Newtonian fluids and soft solids) demonstrate useful and novel properties in both engineered and biological systems. Incorporating these materials in rational engineering design stands to vastly enhance the design space and allow for improvements in technology in areas …
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Design and Kinematics of a Dielectric Elastomer Actuated Micro Dragonfly Robot
… a unique way compared to other hovering insects. Soft robotics are used to learn more about their flapping motion. An at-scale dragonfly robot is designed around Dielectric Elastomer Actuators that compress and expand 0.5mm. With this knowledge, MATLAB was used to predict the linkage sizes that …
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