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Hundred Drones Land in a Minute
Daiki Fujikura, Kenjiro Tadakuma, Masahiro Watanabe +3
Currently, drone research and development has received significant attention worldwide. Particularly, delivery services employ drones as it is a viable method to improve delivery e…
Retraction Mechanism of Soft Torus Robot with a Hydrostatic Skeleton
Tomoya Takahashi, Masahiro Watanabe, Kenjiro Tadakuma +2
Soft robots have attracted much attention in recent years owing to their high adaptability. Long articulated soft robots enable diverse operations, and tip-extending robots that na…
Fire Resistance Deformable Soft Gripper Based on Wire Jamming Mechanism
Kenjiro Tadakuma, Toshiaki Fujimoto, Masahiro Watanabe +1
Able to grasp objects of any shape and size, universal grippers using variable stiffness phenomenon such as granular jamming have been developed for disaster robotics application.…
Internally-Balanced Magnetic Mechanisms Using Magnetic Spring for Producing Large Amplified Clamping Force
Tori Shimizu, Kenjiro Tadakuma, Masahiro Watanabe +3
To detach a permanent magnet with a controlled force much smaller than its original attractive force, the Internally-Balanced Magnetic Unit (IB Magnet) was invented and has been ap…
Radial-Layer Jamming Mechanism for String Configuration
Rio Mukaide, Kenjiro Tadakuma, Masahiro Watanabe +4
Grippers can be attached to objects in a rigid mode, and they are therefore used in various applications, for example granular jamming gripper. This paper introduces a cutting-edge…
Floating Displacement-Force Conversion Mechanism as a Robotic Mechanism
Kenjiro Tadakuma, Tori Shimizu, Sosuke Hayashi +4
To attach and detach permanent magnets with an operation force smaller than their attractive force, Internally-Balanced Magnetic Unit (IB Magnet) has been developed. The unit utili…