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Abstract
Soft limbs with anisotropic stiffness are common in nature and enable animals to solve a variety of tasks, including locomotion and manipulation. This mixture of hardness and softness enables animals to efficiently control the unpredictable contact forces that occur while performing such asks. A challenge for soft robotics is to create artificial limbs that mimic natural mixtures of hardness and softness for use as a building block for soft, adaptable robots. This article presents the design of a novel pneumatic limb module with adjustable length and anisotropic stiffness. The artificial limb is designed with a rigid telescopic endoskeleton inside a rubber bellow, which we show is able to resist buckling, while remaining externally soft. Finally, we present the design of a hexapod walker based on the limb units.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 80 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Frontiers in Robotics and AI |
Volume | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Feb 2017 |
Research Groups and Themes
- Tactile Action Perception
Keywords
- Soft-Robotics
- Variable-length
- Pneumatic
- Robosoft
- Anisotropic-Stiffness
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- 2 Finished
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EPSRC Fellowship - Soft robotic technologies for next generation bio integrative medical devices
Rossiter, J. M. (Principal Investigator)
1/10/15 → 31/03/21
Project: Research
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Copy of Wearable soft robotics for independent living
Rossiter, J. M. (Principal Investigator)
1/07/15 → 31/12/18
Project: Research
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HexoFlexoBot
Rossiter, J. M. (Creator), University of Bristol, 30 Oct 2016
DOI: 10.5523/bris.l9g38ayyb4nm15x3sotqrlf2p, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/l9g38ayyb4nm15x3sotqrlf2p
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