7 accepted papers
Soft material robotic systems offer inherent safety and flexibility due to their low material stiffness. Therefore, soft material robots are prone to operate in unknown environments and fulfill tasks that involve and even exploit contact with the environment. Moving to the application of soft robots
Soft Robotics has established itself as an integral field in the broader discipline of general robotics through multiple advantages like inherent safety, adaptable morphology, and energy- and weight efficiency. Especially in environments hostile to humans and classical robots like the deep sea, soft…
To describe the mechanical behavior of a soft pneumatic actuator, we present a nonlinear rod theory, which recognizes the chamber pressurization as contribution to the resultant contact forces and couples. Accordingly, the pressure actuation can be considered as part of the rod’s constitutive laws,
Compared to their rigid counterparts, soft material robotic systems offer great advantages when it comes to flexibility and adaptability. Despite their advantages, modeling of soft systems is still a challenging task, due to the continuous and often highly nonlinear nature of deformation these syste…
Soft material robotics is a rather young research field in the robotics and material science communities. A popular design is the soft pneumatic actuator (SPA) which, if connected serially, becomes a highly compliant manipulator. This high compliance makes it possible to adapt to the environment and…
Soft material robots offer a number of advantages over traditional rigid robots in applications including human-robot interaction, rehabilitation and surgery. These robots can navigate around obstacles, elongate, squeeze through narrow openings or be squeezed - and they are considered to be inherent…
Soft material robotic systems provide increased adaptability and flexibility compared to conventional rigid metal robots. The soft systems benefit from their inherent compliance, which enables them to be used in applications that require safe interaction between humans and robots or manipulation in…