August 2022 - 37 articles
Interest in soft gloves, both robotic and haptic, has enormously grown over the past decade, due to their inherent compliance, which makes them particularly suitable for direct interaction with the human hand. Robotic soft gloves have been developed...
This paper describes a control strategy for a linkage finger exoskeleton mechanism with two degrees of freedom. To characterise the performance of the proposed finger motion assistance device, a replica of a human finger is prototyped to mimic human...
In the context of suspension design, the installation ratio (or motion ratio) is a parameter that relates wheel movement with spring deflection, quite an important kinematic property of a suspension. Yet, no study in the literature provides a clear r...
This paper presents a flexure-based displacement reduction mechanism driven by a voice coil motor to improve the motion resolution and eliminate the hysteresis nonlinearity of the traditional piezo-actuated micropositioning/nanopositioning stages. Th...
To produce multi-modal mobility in complicated situations is a significant issue for soft robots. In this study, we show the conception, construction, and operation of an inchworm-impersonating dielectric elastomer-activated soft robot. The robot is...
Electromechanical actuators (EMAs), as the critical actuator system of next-generation aircraft, have attracted the attention of many institutions and enterprises around the world. However, due to harsh working conditions, their reliability cannot sa...
In order to solve the problems of limited installation space and strict additional quality, the effects of internal distributed nonlinear energy sinks (NES) considering optimal locations on a composite truss core sandwich plate are investigated in th...
A novel MEMS continuous deformable mirror (DM) is presented. The mirror can be integrated into optical systems to compensate for monochromatic and chromatic aberrations. It is comprised of a 1.6 mm circular plate supported by eight evenly spaced flex...
Ice formation on aerodynamic surfaces is a safety-related issue in aviation. Thermal, mechanical, or hybrid systems are used to prevent or eliminate ice formation. To increase energy efficiency, new methods are being researched and tested, using new...
This paper mainly studies the transition gait planning by updating the parameters of snack robot motion control function through ROS nodes, including a straight running gait into a turning gait. In the practical scenario, when changing the control pa...
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