A jumping robot using soft pneumatic actuator

Feng, Nan; Rojas, Daniel; Tang, Kai; Cai, Lilong; Asfour, Tamim

doi:10.1109/icra.2015.7139633

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“…Also, integration of various new technologies has helped push the boundaries of soft robotics. Many of soft robotics projects ultimately attempted to make soft robotics more controllable, more predictable, more robust, and more manufacturable through innovation and study [151][152][153][154]. In addition to various attempts, there is still much to learn and explore in the field of soft robotics, particularly in regards to flexible power supplies, flexible drive components [147], and onboard controllers, which represent the next obstacles to the commercialization of soft robotics [10,21].…”

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confidence: 99%

Soft Robotics: A Review of Recent Developments of Pneumatic Soft Actuators

et al. 2020

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This paper focuses on the recent development of soft pneumatic actuators for soft robotics over the past few years, concentrating on the following four categories: control systems, material and construction, modeling, and sensors. This review work seeks to provide an accelerated entrance to new researchers in the field to encourage research and innovation. Advances in methods to accurately model soft robotic actuators have been researched, optimizing and making numerous soft robotic designs applicable to medical, manufacturing, and electronics applications. Multi-material 3D printed and fiber optic soft pneumatic actuators have been developed, which will allow for more accurate positioning and tactile feedback for soft robotic systems. Also, a variety of research teams have made improvements to soft robot control systems to utilize soft pneumatic actuators to allow for operations to move more effectively. This review work provides an accessible repository of recent information and comparisons between similar works. Future issues facing soft robotic actuators include portable and flexible power supplies, circuit boards, and drive components.

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confidence: 99%

Soft Robotics: A Review of Recent Developments of Pneumatic Soft Actuators

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“…This concept is at the core of a large number of soft robotic actuators and their various implementations. Simplest soft fluidic actuator designs involve bladders that may quickly be inflated with compressed air, thus generating the impulse needed for jumping robots (Ni et al, 2015 ), or creating fluid motion from mechanical action (Giorgio-Serchi et al, 2016 ) or from internal combustion (Loepfe et al, 2014 ; Schumacher et al, 2014 ). By giving the bladder a specific spatial architecture such as bellows (Tolley et al, 2014b ; Digumarti et al, 2017 ), or by thickening its extremities (Qi et al, 2015 ), one expansion direction may be favored with respect to the others.…”

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Soft Robots Manufacturing: A Review

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The growing interest in soft robots comes from the new possibilities offered by these systems to cope with problems that cannot be addressed by robots built from rigid bodies. Many innovative solutions have been developed in recent years to design soft components and systems. They all demonstrate how soft robotics development is closely dependent on advanced manufacturing processes. This review aims at giving an insight on the current state of the art in soft robotics manufacturing. It first puts in light the elementary components that can be used to develop soft actuators, whether they use fluids, shape memory alloys, electro-active polymers or stimuli-responsive materials. Other types of elementary components, such as soft smart structures or soft-rigid hybrid systems, are then presented. The second part of this review deals with the manufacturing methods used to build complete soft structures. It includes molding, with possibly reinforcements and inclusions, additive manufacturing, thin-film manufacturing, shape deposition manufacturing, and bonding. The paper conclusions sums up the pros and cons of the presented techniques, and open to developing topics such as design methods for soft robotics and sensing technologies.

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“…Interest in development of interactive robots capable of co-working and interacting with humans is gaining significant attention from different industries in recent years. Following this, pneumatic actuated systems could play a significant role in this context, as they are a simple solution to ensure safety requirements in cases of human–robot contact and offer motion capabilities which are not achievable using more rigid actuation solutions [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]. In fact, co-working robots based on electrical actuators require complex control strategies to reduce their natural high stiffness.…”

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Impact of 3D Printing Technique and TPE Material on the Endurance of Pneumatic Linear Peristaltic Actuators

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In this paper, additive manufacturing was used in order to produce hose prototypes for peristaltic linear pneumatic actuators. In order to optimise the endurance of the actuator, we 3D printed different thermoplastic polyurethane elastomers with different shore hardness levels using ARBURG Plastic Freeforming technology. Furthermore, effects of the hose geometries on the lifetime of the actuator were investigated. Experimental evidence showed that the lifetime of the actuator was dependent on the combination of the hose design and on the material used to manufacture the hose. Moreover, experimental tests showed that the use of the Aurburg-Freeformer 3D printing technology led to a much higher hose endurance than the one reported by using the fused layer manufacturing technique.

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A jumping robot using soft pneumatic actuator

Cited by 18 publications

References 25 publications

Soft Robotics: A Review of Recent Developments of Pneumatic Soft Actuators

Soft Robotics: A Review of Recent Developments of Pneumatic Soft Actuators

Soft Robots Manufacturing: A Review

Impact of 3D Printing Technique and TPE Material on the Endurance of Pneumatic Linear Peristaltic Actuators

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