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Hydraulic Volumetric Soft Everting Vine Robot Steering Mechanism for Underwater Exploration
Danyaal Kaleel, Benoit Clement, Kaspar Althoefer
Despite a significant proportion of the Earth being covered in water, exploration of what lies below has been limited due to the challenges and difficulties inherent in the process…
Deformable Tip Mount for Soft Growing Eversion Robots
Cem Suulker, Sophie Skach, Danyaal Kaleel +4
Here we present a flexible tip mount for eversion (vine) robots. This soft cap allows attaching a payload to an eversion robot while allowing moving through narrow openings, as wel…
A Soft Robotic Gripper with Active Palm for In-Hand Object Reorientation
Thomas Mack, Ketao Zhang, Kaspar Althoefer
The human hand has an inherent ability to manipulate and re-orientate objects without external assistance. As a consequence, we are able to operate tools and perform an array of ac…
Eversion Robots for Mapping Radiation in Pipes
Thomas Mack, Mohammed Al-Dubooni, Kaspar Althoefer
A system and testing rig were designed and built to simulate the use of an eversion robot equipped with a radiation sensor to characterise an irradiated pipe prior to decommissioni…
Robotic surface exploration with vision and tactile sensing for cracks detection and characterisation
Francesca Palermo, Bukeikhan Omarali, Changae Oh +2
This paper presents a novel algorithm for crack localisation and detection based on visual and tactile analysis via fibre-optics. A finger-shaped sensor based on fibre-optics is em…
Integrating Elastic Bands to Enhance Performance for Textile Robotics
Cem Suulker, Sophie Skach, Kaspar Althoefer
The elastic bands integrated using the ruffles technique proved to be effective in enhancing the performance of the soft robotic structures. In the actuator application, the elasti…