Actuators, Volume 13, Issue 12

This review will examine the rapidly growing field of soft robotics, with a special emphasis on soft robotic actuators and their applications in bioengineering. Bioengineering has increasingly utilized soft robotics due to their mechanical adaptabili...

With the development of the low-altitude economy, the demand for low-altitude flight missions has steadily increased. However, such flights often encounter special circumstances requiring emergency landings. To address this, a forced landing guidance...

With the rapid increase in vehicle ownership and increasingly stringent emission regulations, addressing the energy consumption of and emissions from commercial vehicles have become critical challenges. This study introduces a multi-objective coopera...

This paper introduces the TacFR-Gripper, a novel reconfigurable soft robotic gripper inspired by the Fin-Ray effect and equipped with tactile skin. The gripper incorporates a four-bar mechanism for accurate finger bending and a reconfigurable design...

This paper presents a method to design a suspension controller with a human body model for ride comfort improvement and motion sickness mitigation. Generally, it has been known that the vertical acceleration of a sprung mass should be reduced for rid...

The coupling of topology transition with flexible deformation and rigid motion presents significant challenges in the dynamic modeling of flexible variable topology mechanisms. Existing dynamics models are mostly special-purpose models for their part...

The pure pursuit (PP) method has been widely employed in automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to address path tracking challenges. However, the traditional pure pursuit method exhibits certain limitations in tracking performance. For instance, selecting...

A well-known soft actuator, called ionic polymer–metal composite (IPMC), is a type of electroactive polymer (EAP) that operates in bending mode. Despite its ability to exhibit large bending, its bending controllability is often poor. Therefore,...

The growing diversity and number of industrial robots make energy consumption prediction and optimization increasingly essential. Current data-driven approaches, particularly those based on multi-layer perception (MLP), have shown feasibility but typ...

As an important component of the automatic hydraulic quick coupling device (AHQCD) on rescue vehicles, the hydraulic quick couplings (HQCs) are used to rapidly dock hydraulic lines and transport fluid while changing and operating hydraulic working to...