5 accepted papers
Flapping wing air vehicles(FWAV) or ornithopters are bio-inspired aerial robots that mimic the flying principles of insects and birds. Autonomous take-off is an important capability for FWAV to enhance its performance and extend its working time, which is equipped by almost every kind of bird. As a…
Jumping is an advantageous locomotion method to extend the motion range, overcome obstacles, and adapt to unstructured environments; however, it is challenging for robotic jumpers to simultaneously maintain structural compliance and achieve powerful, multidirectional jumping. This letter introduces
This paper presents a model-based approach to reconstructing the large deformations of slender flexible beams through strain-gauge deflection sensors. Using the principal axes decomposition of structural compliance, a closed-form kinetostatics model can be obtained to characterize the non-linear for…
We introduce an underactuated differential-based robot gripper able to perform self-adaptive grasping with passive disturbance rejection. The gripper utilises three car differential systems to achieve self-adaptiveness with a single actuator: a base differential for distributing power from the motor…
Pneumatic actuators have been widely used in robotics due to their inherent compliance and relatively high strength. In this letter, the authors report on the design, analysis and experimental validation of a novel pneumatic/cable-driven hybrid linear actuator whose structure is a combination of ori