Aug 1, 2023 · In this paper, the design of flexible materials, the AI real-time sensing and controlling of flexible manipulator are described, as well as the application and prospects are analyzed.

Sep 15, 2024 · Utilizing the admirable flexibility and strength of tensegrity structures, made of rigid bars and elastic strings, we introduce a new type of flexible robotic arm. This arm is constructed using a sequence of two-dimensional X-tensegrity inspired modules.

Jan 31, 2025 · The SpiRobs robotic arm operates through a sophisticated system of two or three cables that actuate its movements, giving the arm the ability to adjust its grip with a 15-degree conical angle. This design allows the robot to manage objects of varying sizes and shapes, and even support weights up to 260 times its own.

Mar 19, 2019 · Unlike conventional robot arms with hinged and swivel joints, new flexible arms being developed by Professor Stefan Seelecke and his research group at Saarland University are constructed using...

Dec 18, 2024 · This paper designs a tendon-actuated flexible robotic arm and studies the dynamics of the flexible robotic arm for capturing a floating target. The paper firstly establishes an accurate dynamic model of the flexible robotic arm by jointly using the absolute nodal coordinate formulation (ANCF) in the framework of the arbitrary Lagrangian ...

A collaborative robotic arm is engineered to work alongside human operators safely and efficiently. By facilitating human-robot interaction, these arms improve productivity, streamline processes, and enable flexible automation solutions tailored to specific laboratory needs.

Jan 23, 2025 · Using the same platform as Moss, Cordon developed a control system that mapped the displacement of the flexible robotic arm to the motion of a mobile base, enabling human-robot manipulation of a rigid object. “No one has ever really done collaborative manipulation with a soft robot, so this is a novel approach,” Cordon said. ...

Oct 21, 2024 · Each joint is actuated with a single tendon for active motion control in compression of the arm at the end-effector. Its elasto-mechanical design reduces weight and provides flexibility, allowing passive-compliant interactions without impacting the motors' integrity.

To address this problem, we have studied a high-payload robotic manipulator that bends and extends in 2D space. In this article, we propose the mechanical design for moving our manipulator in 3D space.

Oct 11, 2023 · In this article, we introduce a two-segment wire-driven flexible robotic arm. It is characterized by a high degree of flexibility and the rotatable housing of the robotic arm, which further increases the degree of freedom of wire-driven flexible robotic arms.

Oct 27, 2023 · What sets this soft robot arm apart is its remarkable ability to adapt to various shapes and surfaces. This flexibility makes it an ideal tool for intricate tasks such as picking fruits or...

Jan 24, 2025 · Building on this platform, another study developed a control system linking the motion of a flexible robotic arm to a mobile base, allowing for precise manipulation of rigid objects. This ...

May 13, 2024 · To maintain flexibility while improving control accuracy and output capacity, a rigid-flexible converged robotic arm is designed in this article using a foldable actuator that combines the benefits of soft and cable-driven robots.

Sep 15, 2024 · Utilizing the admirable flexibility and strength of tensegrity structures, made of rigid bars and elastic strings, we introduce a new type of flexible robotic arm. This arm is constructed using a sequence of two-dimensional X-tensegrity inspired modules.

Oct 18, 2024 · In this paper, a rigid–flexible supernumerary robotic arm/leg with FRAs was designed to realize both flexible operation and stable support. The analytic model of the SRL was constructed to declare the regulation law of the movement trajectory and stiffness profile.

The experimental results showed that the wearable flexible robotic arm developed in this paper had a certain degree of completion, its motion effect and control accuracy reached the design expectations, and it had certain application prospects.

Jan 29, 2025 · Using HeTRM, energy can be stored in a flexible joint and then released instantly, allowing it to wrap around objects, much like an octopus. ... Making the soft robotic arm involved a combination ...

6 days ago · The innovative structure introduced in this paper enables the force control of the gripper without adding force sensors at the end effector, and the gripper can adapt to the shape of the objects being grasped, achieving flexible gripping. The robotic arm adopts a lightweight design, which helps to reduce interference with the mobile platform ...

Flexible-link robotic manipulators have many advantages with respect to conventional rigid robots. These mechanisms are built using lighter, cheaper materials, which improve the payload to arm weight ratio, thus resulting in an increase of the speed with lower energy consumption.

Jun 12, 2023 · In this paper, we investigate the problem of a dynamic event-triggered robust controller design for flexible robotic arm systems with continuous-time phase-type semi-Markov jump process.

Rigid and flexible manipulators offer distinct advantages and drawbacks, with compliance emerging as a critical asset for effective aerial manipulation. In this concept, a new aerial platform with a soft con-tinuum arm was introduced in [14].

This paper surveys modeling and control problems of flexible robot arm systems. The flexibilities of the robot arm system are divided into two categories, namely the flexibility due to the nonlinearity in the drive system and the flexibility due to the elasticity of the arms which has properties of distributed parameter system.

19 hours ago · The robot arm could be controlled by tightening or loosening the threads. They note that the gelatin thread also served as a sensor as it changed resistance when the arm was bent. ... Flexible skin patch provides haptic feedback from a human operator to a remotely operated robot. Jan 18, 2022. Tiny soft robot can split into tinier bits then ...

In view of this, inspired by the biological structure of the Nycticorax Violaceus, a novel scalable flexible robotic arm for addressing complex spatial fault-tolerant manipulation requirements is proposed in this paper.

6 days ago · The cover art depicts symbolized figures in a peaceful garden that demonstrate how shape-changing mechanical metamaterials can be integrated into advanced robotic arms for daily life applications. These arms, based on multimodal multistable unit cells, preserve alternate configurations without requiring power while supporting significant loads.

Origami structure has the advantages of light weight and large deformation. Based on the axial deformation characteristics of Yoshimura and the radial deformation characteristics of Waterbomb, a flexible robot arm driven by the origami pneumatic muscles is designed.

This study aims at the development of a new flexible robotic arm using thin McKibben actuators mimicking the muscle structure of an octopus arm. The McKibben actuator is a well-known pneumatic artificial muscle, and we have developed extremely thin McKibben actuators by using a braiding machine.