5 accepted papers
With the growth of logistics automation, there is an increasing demand for advanced grippers. This study presents a gripper that integrates suction cups into the fingertips to overcome the limitations of traditional robotic gripping methods. Designed with a 5-degree-of-freedom structure, the gripper
Artificial muscles have been developed for various input power sources. Among them, thermally driven actuators can be easily actuated at a low voltage without an additional device using the Joule heating. Therefore, these actuators can be considered suitable for developing lightweight robots. Shape
Shape memory alloy actuators (SMA) are widely used in robots owing to their flexibility and light weight. However, there is a drawback in that SMAs need to be used as a bundle owing to their lower force density than the motor. In addition, SMAs require continuous current to maintain a contracted sta
This paper presents a 1-link robotic arm that is antagonistically driven by one pair of a high performance super-coiled polymer actuators with an embedded controller. The actuator which is made from Spandex and nylon fibers is low-cost, easy to fabricate and light-weight. Moreover, it can generate l…
This paper presents a fabric actuator consisting of ordinary polymer fibers, conductive fibers, and twisted and coiled soft actuators (TCAs). Previous studies have developed a Spandex TCA (STCA) that is driven at a lower temperature than the conventional Nylon TCA and exhibits greater actuation stra…