Songwen Jiang

Increasing the Payload and Terrain Adaptivity of an Untethered Crawling Robot Via Soft-Rigid Coupled Linear Actuators

Fluidic Elastomer Actuators (FEAs) provide new opportunities for developing agile, adaptive, and strong mobile robots for field explorations. In this letter, we propose a soft-rigid coupled linear FEA with a bio-comparable energy density of 10.9 J/kg at 50 kPa. This actuator achieves an increased bl