Design and analysis of a robust, low-cost, highly articulated manipulator enabled by jamming of granular media

Hyper-redundant manipulators can be fragile, expensive, and limited in their flexibility due to the distributed and bulky actuators that are typically used to achieve the precision and degrees of freedom (DOFs) required. Here, a manipulator is proposed that is robust, high-force, low-cost, and highl...

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Main Authors: Lobovsky, Maxim B., Keating, Steven John, Setapen, Adam M., Gero, Katy I., Hosoi, Anette E., Iagnemma, Karl, Cheng, Nadia Gen San
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79716
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4940-7496
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8775-5590