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most citedAn Ultrasensitive 3D Printed Tactile Sensor for Soft Robotics

16 citations · 19 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.RO2023

A Compliant Robotic Leg Based on Fibre Jamming

Lois Liow, James Brett, Josh Pinskier +4

Humans possess a remarkable ability to react to unpredictable perturbations through immediate mechanical responses, which harness the visco-elastic properties of muscles to maintai…

cs.RO2022

A Comprehensive Dataset of Grains for Granular Jamming in Soft Robotics: Grip Strength and Shock Absorption

David Howard, Jack O'Connor, Jordan Letchford +4

We test grip strength and shock absorption properties of various granular material in granular jamming robotic components. The granular material comprises a range of natural, manuf…

cs.RO2022

Active Vibration Fluidization for Granular Jamming Grippers

Cameron Coombe, James Brett, Raghav Mishra +2

Granular jamming has recently become popular in soft robotics with widespread applications including industrial gripping, surgical robotics and haptics. Previous work has investiga…

cs.RO2022

The Jamming Donut: A Free-Space Gripper based on Granular Jamming

Therese Joseph, Sarah Baldwin, Lillian Guan +2

Fruit harvesting has recently experienced a shift towards soft grippers that possess compliance, adaptability, and delicacy. In this context, pneumatic grippers are popular, due to…

cs.RO2022

Automated design of pneumatic soft grippers through design-dependent multi-material topology optimization

Josh Pinskier, Prabhat Kumar, Matthijs Langelaar +1

Soft robotic grasping has rapidly spread through the academic robotics community in recent years and pushed into industrial applications. At the same time, multimaterial 3D printin…

cs.RO2021

Getting a Grip: in Materio Evolution of Membrane Morphology for Soft Robotic Jamming Grippers

David Howard, Jack O'Connor, Jordan Letchford +5

The application of granular jamming in soft robotics is a recent and promising new technology offer exciting possibilities for creating higher performance robotic devices. Granular…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 2 cited

Vibration Improves Performance in Granular Jamming Grippers

Raghav Mishra, Tyson Philips, Gary W. Delaney +1

Granular jamming is a popular soft robotics technology that has seen recent widespread applications including industrial gripping, surgical robotics and haptics. However, to date t…

cs.RO2021★ 1 cited

Jammkle: Fibre jamming 3D printed multi-material tendons and their application in a robotic ankle

James Brett, Katrina Lo Surdo, Lauren Hanson +2

Fibre jamming is a relatively new and understudied soft robotic mechanism that has previously found success when used in stiffness-tuneable arms and fingers. However, to date resea…

cs.RO2021

Shape, Size, and Fabrication Effects in 3D Printed Granular Jamming Grippers

David Howard, Jack O'Connor, James Brett +1

Granular jamming is a popular soft actuation mechanism that provides high stiffness variability with minimum volume variation. Jamming is particularly interesting from a design per…

physics.app-ph2018★ 16 cited

An Ultrasensitive 3D Printed Tactile Sensor for Soft Robotics

Saeb Mousavi, David Howard, Shuying Wu +1

A new method is presented to manufacture piezoresistive tactile sensors using fused deposition modelling (FDM)printing technology with two different filaments made of thermoplastic…