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Guy Van Assche

5 accepted papers

2022

A Healable Resistive Heater as a Stimuli-Providing System in Self-Healing Soft Robots

Seyedreza Kashef Tabrizian, Fatemeh Sahraeeazartamar, Joost Brancart, Ellen Roels, Pasquale Ferrentino, Julie Legrand +3
RA-L 2022

Self-healing polymers can address the damage susceptibility in soft robotics. However, in most cases, their healing requires a heat stimulus, provided by an external device. This letter presents a self-healing soft actuator with an integrated healable flexible heater, functioning as the stimuli-prov

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2022

Quasi-Static FEA Model for a Multi-Material Soft Pneumatic Actuator in SOFA

Pasquale Ferrentino, Antonio López-Díaz, Seppe Terryn, Julie Legrand, Joost Brancart, Guy Van Assche +3
RA-L 2022

The increasing interest in soft robotics has led to new designs that exploit the combination of multiple materials, increasing robustness and enhancing performance. However, the combination of multiple non-linear materials makes modelling and eventual control of these highly flexible systems challen

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2022

Topology optimized multi-material self-healing actuator with reduced out of plane deformation

Zhanwei Wang, Seppe Terryn, Julie Legrand, Pasquale Ferrentino, Seyedreza Kashef Tabrizian, Joost Brancart +3
IROS 2022poster

Recent advances in soft robotics in academia have led to the adoption of soft grippers in industrial settings. Due to their soft bending actuators, these grippers can handle delicate objects with great care. However, due to their flexibility, the actuators are prone to out-of-plane deformations upon…

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2018

A Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Manufactured Out of Self-Healing Polymers That Can Repair Macroscopic Damages

Seppe Terryn, Joost Brancart, Dirk Lefeber, Guy Van Assche, Bram Vanderborght
RA-L 2018

Pneumatic muscles are mostly constructed out of flexible membranes and are implemented in a wide range of robotic applications. In these soft materials, perforations are often caused by overpressuring of the muscles and wear. In many cases, this leads to limited numbers of actuation cycles. In this

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2015

Investigation of self-healing compliant actuators for robotics

Seppe Terryn, Glenn Mathijssen, Joost Brancart, Guy Van Assche, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber
ICRA 2015poster

Last 15 years, a wide range of self-healing (SH) materials has been developed and recently these materials are increasingly used in applications in multiple fields, like the automotive industry and aerospace. However, so far this material technology is not yet explored in robotics. The introduction…

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