Folding and Bending Planar Coils for Highly Precise Soft Angle Sensing

Toward Modular Soft Robotics: Proprioceptive Curvature Sensing and Sliding-Mode Control of Soft Bidirectional Bending Modules.

Real-world environments are complex, unstructured, and often fragile. Soft robotics offers a solution for robots to safely interact with the environment and human coworkers, but suffers from a host of challenges in sensing and control of continuously deformable bodies. To overcome these challenges, this article considers a modular soft robotic architecture that offers proprioceptive sensing of ...

Average bending angle approach

A Stretchable and Highly Sensitive Graphene-Based Fiber for Sensing Tensile Strain, Bending, and Torsion.

Wearable sensors are increasingly finding their way into applications of kinesthetic sensing, personal health monitoring, and smart prosthetics/robotics. A graphene-based composite fiber sensor with a "compression spring" structure is fabricated, featuring the ability of detecting multiple kinds of deformation. This fiber sensor is integrated into wearable sensors for monitoring human activitie...

Eddy Field Measurement by Using Search Coils for Bending Magnet

In order to estimate a field disturbance of a guiding field of a synchrotron due to an eddy current, magnetic fields in a bending magnet have been measured. The magnet was excited by a sinusoidal current with a repetition of 30 Hz. Two search coils were used in the measurements. One is a reference coil and the other is a measurement coil. An imaginary part of an eddy field was derived from phas...

Origami: Folding creases through bending.

news & views infrared (Fig. 2b; orange-shaded regions). Within this spectral range, hBN is also a naturally hyperbolic material, whereby optical modes with very large momenta can be confined and propagated within the sub-diffractional volume of the material 11,12. As a result, optical confinement to volumes that are arbitrarily small with respect to the free-space wavelength should be feasible;...