Design and control of soft biomimetic pangasius fish robot using fin ray effect and reinforcement learning.

Soft robots provide a pathway to accurately mimic biological creatures and be integrated into their environment with minimal invasion or disruption to their ecosystem. These robots made from soft deforming materials possess structural properties and behaviors similar to the bodies and organs of living creatures. However, they are difficult to develop in terms of integrated actuation and sensing, accurate modeling, and precise control.

Modeling of Soft Pneumatic Actuators with Different Orientation Angles Using Echo State Networks for Irregular Time Series Data.

Modeling of soft robotics systems proves to be an extremely difficult task, due to the large deformation of the soft materials used to make such robots. Reliable and accurate models are necessary for the control task of these soft robots. In this paper, a data-driven approach using machine learning is presented to model the kinematics of Soft Pneumatic Actuators (SPAs).

Underwater Soft Robotics: A Review of Bioinspiration in Design, Actuation, Modeling, and Control.

Nature and biological creatures are some of the main sources of inspiration for humans. Engineers have aspired to emulate these natural systems. As rigid systems become increasingly limited in their capabilities to perform complex tasks and adapt to their environment like living creatures, the need for soft systems has become more prominent due to the similar complex, compliant, and flexible characteristics they share with intelligent natural systems.

Modelling and implementation of soft bio-mimetic turtle using echo state network and soft pneumatic actuators.

Advances of soft robotics enabled better mimicking of biological creatures and closer realization of animals' motion in the robotics field. The biological creature's movement has morphology and flexibility that is problematic deportation to a bio-inspired robot. This paper aims to study the ability to mimic turtle motion using a soft pneumatic actuator (SPA) as a turtle flipper limb.

Tactile sensing biohybrid soft E-skin based on bioimpedance using aloe vera pulp tissues.

Soft and flexible E-skin advances are a subset of soft robotics field where the soft morphology of human skin is mimicked. The number of prototypes that conformed the use of biological tissues within the structure of soft robots-to develop "Biohybrid Soft Robots"-has increased in the last decade. However, no research was conducted to realize Biohybrid E-skin.