Soft Robotics in Body Assistance: An Intelligent Rehabilitation Device with Soft Continuum Actuation

Soft robotic glove for combined assistance and at-home rehabilitation

This paper presents a portable, assistive, soft robotic glove designed to augment hand rehabilitation for individuals with functional grasp pathologies. The robotic glove utilizes soft actuators consisting of molded elastomeric chambers with fiber reinforcements that induce specific bending, twisting and extending trajectories under fluid pressurization. These soft actuators were mechanically p...

Soft Computing for Intelligent Control and Mobile Robotics

This paper describes the design of a locomotion controller to regulate the pose of a nonholonomic mobile robot with frontal differential driving wheels, and a swivel castor wheel in rear. Differently to common proposals base on dynamic models, this controller uses the kinematics model and the mobile robot architecture to generate the adequate linear and angular speeds to reach the desired pose....

Soft Robotics: The Next Generation of Intelligent Machines

Researchers from robotics and artificial intelligence increasingly agree that ideas from biology and self-organization can strongly benefit the design of autonomous robots. Biological organisms which are for the better part built from soft materials, have evolved to perform and survive in a world characterized by rapid changes, high uncertainty, indefinite richness, and limited availability of ...

Multi-Modal, Device-Assisted-Soft-Tissue- Mobilization in Physical Rehabilitation

Propulsion-Based Soft Robotic Actuation

The use of air propulsion to drive limb motion in soft robotics has been a largely untapped field even though the technology has been around since the 1700s. Air propulsion can generate greater degrees of motion in limb actuators compared to widely-experimented pneumatic actuators operating on expandable air channels, which are limited by air pressure input, minimum size and cyclic fatigue. To ...