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Junhao Zhang, Yinglong Chen, Yi Liu and Yongjun Gong
For decades, underwater vehicles have been performing underwater operations, which are critical to the development and upgrading of underwater robots. With the advancement of technology, various types of robots have been developed. The underwater robotic...
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Qimeng Liu, Hao Chen, Zhenhua Wang, Qu He, Linke Chen, Weikun Li, Ruipeng Li and Weicheng Cui
Recent research on robotic fish mainly focused on the bionic structure design and realizing the movement with smart materials. Although many robotic fish have been proposed, most of these works were oriented toward shallow water environments and are most...
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Carl Strathearn
This study employs a novel 3D engineered robotic eye system with dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) pupils and a 3D sculpted and colourised gelatin iris membrane to replicate the appearance and materiality of the human eye. A camera system for facial ex...
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Jung-Hwan Youn, Seung Mo Jeong, Geonwoo Hwang, Hyunwoo Kim, Kyujin Hyeon, Jihwan Park and Ki-Uk Kyung
The main application area of dielectric elastomers is soft robotics as muscle-like actuators.
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Yu Zhang, Yubin Liu, Xin Sui, Tianjiao Zheng, Dongyang Bie, Yulin Wang, Jie Zhao and Yanhe Zhu
Soft modular robots have advantages, including infinite degrees of freedom and various configurations. Most soft robots are actuated by inflating air pressure into their chambers. However, each chamber is connected to a tube that provides the air supply,...
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Zengqi Peng and Jian Huang
Rehabilitation and nursing-care robots have become one of the prevalent methods for assistant treatment of motor disorder patients in the field of medical rehabilitation. Traditional rehabilitation robots are mostly made of rigid materials, which signifi...
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Hong Fu and Wenzeng Zhang
The CTSA-II hand developed in this paper can be used to grab objects, especially in places where general grabbing is required, such as industrial production lines, service robots, etc.
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Shanhai Jin, Xiaogang Xiong, Dejin Zhao, Changfu Jin and Motoji Yamamoto
As a walking assistive device for elderly persons, one of the major aims should be to improve and rehabilitate gait characteristics after long-term repeated use of the device. However, most of the existing research on walking assistive devices only empha...
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Qiuxuan Wu, Yueqin Gu, Yancheng Li, Botao Zhang, Sergey A. Chepinskiy, Jian Wang, Anton A. Zhilenkov, Aleksandr Y. Krasnov and Sergei Chernyi
The cable-driven soft arm is mostly made of soft material; it is difficult to control because of the material characteristics, so the traditional robot arm modeling and control methods cannot be directly applied to the soft robot arm. In this paper, we c...
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Zhifeng Qi and Xiuting Sun
In complex and extreme environments, such as pipelines and polluted waters, gait programming has great significance for multibody segment locomotion robots. The earthworm-like locomotion robot is a representative multibody bionic robot, which has the cha...
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Lingkun Chen, Shusheng Bi, Yueri Cai, Yong Cao and Guang Pan
Bionic propulsion has advantages over traditional blade propellers, such as efficiency and noise control. Existing research on ray-inspired robot fish has mainly focused on a single type of pectoral fin as bionic propeller, which only performed well in t...
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Boai Sun, Weikun Li, Zhangyuan Wang, Yunpeng Zhu, Qu He, Xinyan Guan, Guangmin Dai, Dehan Yuan, Ang Li, Weicheng Cui and Dixia Fan
Compared with traditional underwater vehicles, bio-inspired fish robots have the advantages of high efficiency, high maneuverability, low noise, and minor fluid disturbance. Therefore, they have gained an increasing research interest, which has led to a ...
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Yuhao Lai, Ruijun Ma, Yu Chen, Tao Wan, Rui Jiao and Huandong He
The accurate detection of pineapples of different maturity levels in a complex field environment is the key step to achieving the early yield estimation and mechanized picking of pineapple. This study proposes a target detection model based on the improv...
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Yunqian Ma, Yuliang Wei and Deyi Kong
This paper presents the design and development of a miniature integrated jumping and running robot that can adjust its route trajectory and has passive self-righting. The jumping mechanism of the robot was developed by using a novel design strategy that ...
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Xiong Yang, Haotian She, Haojian Lu, Toshio Fukuda and Yajing Shen
The bipedal robot is one of the most attractive robots types given its similarity to the locomotion of human beings and its ability to assist people to walk during rehabilitation. This review summarizes the chronological historical development of bipedal...
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Alex Kai-Yuan Lo, Yu-Huan Yang, Tsen-Chang Lin, Chen-Wen Chu and Pei-Chun Lin
We report on the model-based development of a monkey robot that is capable of performing continuous brachiation locomotion on swingable rod, as the intermediate step toward studying brachiation on the soft rope or on horizontal ropes with both ends fixed...
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Nikolaos Kladovasilakis, Ioannis Kostavelis, Paschalis Sideridis, Eleni Koltzi, Konstantinos Piliounis, Dimitrios Tzetzis and Dimitrios Tzovaras
During the last decade, soft robotic systems, such as actuators and grippers, have been employed in various commercial applications. Due to the need to integrate robotic mechanisms into devices operating alongside humans, soft robotic systems concentrate...
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Usman Asad, Shummaila Rasheed, Waqas Akbar Lughmani, Tayyaba Kazim, Azfar Khalid and Jürgen Pannek
Exponentially growing technologies such as intelligent robots in the context of Industry 4.0 are radically changing traditional manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing with increased productivity and flexibility. Workspaces are being transformed into ...
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José Emilio Traver, Cristina Nuevo-Gallardo, Paloma Rodríguez, Inés Tejado and Blas M. Vinagre
Ionic polymer-metal composites (IPMCs) are electrically driven materials that undergo bending deformations in the presence of relatively low external voltages, exhibiting a great potential as actuators in applications in soft robotics, microrobotics, and...
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