Adhesive Soft Robot Skin with Integrated Micro Suction Cups

A Micro Mobile Robot with Suction Cups in the Abdominal Cavity for NOTES

Octopus-Inspired Innovative Suction Cups

Octopus show great adhesion capabilities thanks to their suckers covering their ventral side of their arms. Starting from biological investigation, we identified preliminary specifications for the design of innovative artificial suction cups, which could be used in the field of soft robotics. The main features of the biological sucker are maintained as leading criteria for the choice of the act...

Positive Pressure Induced Channeled Suction Cups

Leaking in water pipe is a critical issue in Middle Eastern countries such as Kuwait where water is scarce. In-pipe robots can be dispatched to discover the network and inspect the inner surface of the pipe. This thesis describes the design and characterization of suction pads for in-pipe robots. The suction cups are made of hyperelastic materials that contain air channels inside. Instead of us...

Analysis of Sliding Suction Cups for Negative Pressure Adhesion of a Robot Climbing on Concrete Walls

The success and efficiency of wall-climbing robots is not only a question of closed-loop control and electronics. Also materials have a large influence on the operability to make the systems light-weighted or more robust. This paper presents findings based on experiments to find an optimal material for inflatable adaptive sealings. Demands of such sliding sealings are robustness and good slidin...

Telemetric Artificial Skin for Soft Robot

Robots of new generation to coexist with human harmoniously will require the sensor skin that is soft to cover the whole body. But it would be very difficult to fabricate such a skin with existing technology, because it is laborious to place and wire vast amount of sensor elements on the 3-dimensionally configured robot surface. In this paper we propose a novel method to fabricate such a sensor...