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Actuators, Volume 13, Issue 10

October 2024 - 47 articles

Cover Story: A slender, soft robot was designed and tested in a swimming experiment in a still-water tank. The robot employs soft pneumatic muscles activated with a rhythmic input. The system was modeled as a fully coupled fluid–solid interaction (FSI) system. The experiments show successful swimming, and the proposed mode analysis algorithm allowed the modeling and explanation of the fluctuation. The results disclose the presence of traveling waves related to anguilliform waves obtained via the superposition of two main modes. The similarities of the results with natural anguilliform locomotion are discussed. It is concluded that soft robot undulation is ruled by dynamic modes induced by robot–environment interactions. View this paper
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Articles (47)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,080 Views
19 Pages

21 October 2024

With the development of technology, the working processes of rolling equipment have become more and more complex, and the traditional rolling model encounters difficulties in meeting current demands for accuracy. To reduce the thickness error of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,228 Views
20 Pages

21 October 2024

The increasing demand for innovative grippers and actuators for the automation sector encourages the development of new and innovative functional principles. Intelligent materials are particularly suitable for this purpose based on their high energy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,447 Views
19 Pages

21 October 2024

In order to obtain information regarding changes in the air cushion flow field and load-bearing characteristics of a single row hole air cushion belt conveyor, a structural model of the air cushion of the belt conveyor was established, with the singl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,090 Views
18 Pages

18 October 2024

Aiming at the problems of low trajectory tracking accuracy, serious chattering and poor robust performance of ball screw feed systems in traditional sliding mode control (SMC), in this paper, a global nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode control (G...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,355 Views
23 Pages

Three-Dimensional Outdoor Object Detection in Quadrupedal Robots for Surveillance Navigations

  • Muhammad Hassan Tanveer,
  • Zainab Fatima,
  • Hira Mariam,
  • Tanazzah Rehman and
  • Razvan Cristian Voicu

16 October 2024

Quadrupedal robots are confronted with the intricate challenge of navigating dynamic environments fraught with diverse and unpredictable scenarios. Effectively identifying and responding to obstacles is paramount for ensuring safe and reliable naviga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,509 Views
18 Pages

16 October 2024

Under extended-phase-shift (ESP) control, the current stress of the dual active bridge converter (DAB) is relatively high, which reduces the efficiency of the converter. To solve this problem, a particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm based on mi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,277 Views
15 Pages

ADRC Control of Ultra-High-Speed Electric Air Compressor Considering Excitation Observation

  • Jiaming Zhou,
  • Yingzheng Li,
  • Jinming Zhang,
  • Fengyan Yi,
  • Chunxiao Feng,
  • Caizhi Zhang,
  • Bo Deng,
  • Honglei Qi,
  • Yu Wang and
  • Shuo Wang

16 October 2024

With the increasing power of fuel cells, ultra-high-speed electric air compressors (UHSEACs) have been widely used. However, due to the ultra-high speeds involved, UHSEACs face problems such as long speed adjustment times and large speed fluctuations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,410 Views
19 Pages

16 October 2024

This study investigates the effects of humanoid robot appearance, emotional expression, and interaction skills on the uncanny valley phenomenon among university students using the social humanoid robot (SHR) Ameca. Two fundamental studies were conduc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,150 Views
15 Pages

A Pneumatic Fingerless Soft Gripper for Envelope Gripping

  • Shuman Xu,
  • Hongmei Du,
  • Shangsheng Zhang,
  • Ruicheng Lei,
  • Jian Wang,
  • Yulian Li and
  • Zengzhi Zhang

16 October 2024

In grasping operations, when facing unstructured environments, the use of soft-body grippers can be a good solution to the problem of grasping objects that are inconvenient to grasp due to their fragility and irregularity. However, as the soft-body g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,260 Views
18 Pages

15 October 2024

Nonlinear disturbances, such as friction, backlash, and base vibration, are the main factors restricting the further improvement of the dynamic performance of the Acquisition, Tracking and Pointing (ATP) system. However, the modeling and compensation...

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