Employing Pneumatic, Telescopic Actuators for the Development of Soft and Hybrid Robotic Grippers.

ABSTRACT: Traditionally, the robotic end-effectors that are employed in unstructured and dynamic environments are rigid and their operation requires sophisticated sensing elements and complicated control algorithms in order to handle and manipulate delicate and fragile objects. Over the last decade, considerable research effort has been put into the development of adaptive, under-actuated, soft robots that facilitate robust interactions with dynamic environments. In this paper, we present soft, retractable, pneumatically actuated, telescopic actuators that facilitate the efficient execution of stable grasps involving a plethora of everyday life objects. The efficiency of the proposed actuators is validated by employing them in two different soft and hybrid robotic grippers. The hybrid gripper uses t

SUBMITTER: Gerez L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7806047 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature