— Soft robotic systems have applications in industrial, medical, and security applications. Many applications require these robots to be small and lightweight. One challenge in d...
Nadia Cheng, Genya Ishigami, Stephan Hawthorne, Ha...
Developing real robots that can exploit dynamic interactions with the environment requires the use of actuators whose behaviour can vary from high stiffness to complete complianc...
—Advanced automotive control applications such as steer-by-wire are typically implemented as distributed systems comprising many embedded processors, sensors, and actuators inter...
Nagarajan Kandasamy, John P. Hayes, Brian T. Murra...
- This paper presents a new control method to drive an array of wet Shape Memory Alloy actuators utilizing a Matrix Manifold and Valve system (MMV). The MMV architecture allows a v...
In this paper, we present a new portable force feedback device for surgery simulations. Dielectric elastomer spring roll linear actuators for this device were manufactured, and ch...
Rui Zhang, Patrick Lochmatter, Andreas M. Kunz, G&...
We propose a generalized model with configurable discretizer actuators as a solution to the problem of the discretization of massive numerical datasets. Our solution is based on a ...