Reconfigurable Soft Robots by Building Blocks.

ABSTRACT: Soft robots are of increasing interest as they can cope with challenges that are poorly addressed by conventional rigid-body robots (e.g., limited flexibility). However, due to their flexible nature, the soft robots can be particularly prone to exploit modular designs for enhancing their reconfigurability, that is, a concept which, to date, has not been explored. Therefore, this paper presents a design of soft building blocks that can be disassembled and reconfigured to build different modular configurations of soft robots such as robotic fingers and continuum robots. First, a numerical model is developed for the constitutive building block allowing to understand their behavior versus design parameters, then a shape optimization algorithm is developed to permit the construction of differen

SUBMITTER: Atia MGB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9685464 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature