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Designing a Hair-Clip Inspired Bistable Mechanism for Soft Fish Robots
Zechen Xiong, Hod Lipson
The Hair clip mechanism (HCM) is an in-plane prestressed bistable mechanism proposed in our previous research [1]~[5] to enhance the functionality of soft robotics. HCMs have sever…
CarbonFish -- A Bistable Underactuated Compliant Fish Robot capable of High Frequency Undulation
Zechen Xiong, Zihan Guo, Mark Liu +2
The Hair Clip Mechanism HCM represents an innovative in plane prestressed bistable mechanism, as delineated in our preceding studies, devised to augment the functional prowess of s…
Accelerating Aquatic Soft Robots with Elastic Instability Effects
Zechen Xiong, Suyu Luohong, Jeong Hun Lee +1
Sinusoidal undulation has long been considered the most successful swimming pattern for fish and bionic aquatic robots [1]. However, a swimming pattern generated by the hair clip m…
Rapid grasping of fabric using bionic soft grippers with elastic instability
Zechen Xiong, Zihan Guo, Li Yuan +3
Robot grasping is subject to an inherent tradeoff: Grippers with a large span typically take a longer time to close, and fast grippers usually cover a small span. However, many pra…
Fast Untethered Soft Robotic Crawler with Elastic Instability
Zechen Xiong, Yufeng Su, Hod Lipson
High-speed locomotion of animals gives them tremendous advantages in exploring, hunting, and escaping from predators in varying environments. Enlightened by the fast-running gait o…
Fast Swimming Robots Based on Elastic Instability
Zechen Xiong, Liqi Chen, Wenxiong Hao +2
Inspired by the snap-through action of a steel hairclip, we propose a design method for in-plane prestressed mechanisms that exhibit biomimetic morphing and high locomotion perform…
Pre-stressed Bi-stable Hair Clip Mechanism for Faster Swimming Robots
Zechen Xiong, Liqi Chen, Wenxiong Hao +2
Structural instability is a hazard that leads to catastrophic failure and is generally avoided through special designs. A trend, however, has emerged over the past decades pointing…