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Novel design and position control strategy of a soft robot arm (2018)
Journal Article
Al-Ibadi, A., Nefti-Meziani, S., Davis, S., & Theodoridis, T. (2018). Novel design and position control strategy of a soft robot arm. Robotics, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics7040072

This article presents a novel design of a continuum arm, which has the ability to extend and bend efficiently. Numerous designs and experiments have been done to different dimensions on both types of McKibben pneumatic muscle actuators (PMA) in order... Read More about Novel design and position control strategy of a soft robot arm.

Design of two segments continuum robot arm based on pneumatic muscle actuator (PMA) (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Ibadi, A., Nefti-Meziani, S., Davis, S., & Theodoridis, T. (2018, September). Design of two segments continuum robot arm based on pneumatic muscle actuator (PMA). Presented at 24th International Conference on Automation & Computing, Newcastle, UK

This paper proposes a novel continuum robot arm based on the pneumatic muscle actuator (PMA). The simple design of the extensor and the contractor PMAs are used to implement the extension and the contraction sections respectively. Five actuators a... Read More about Design of two segments continuum robot arm based on pneumatic muscle actuator (PMA).

The design and mathematical model of a novel variable stiffness extensor-contractor pneumatic artificial muscle (2018)
Journal Article
Al-Fahaam, H., Nefti-Meziani, S., Theodoridis, T., & Davis, S. (2018). The design and mathematical model of a novel variable stiffness extensor-contractor pneumatic artificial muscle. Soft Robotics, 5(5), 576-591. https://doi.org/10.1089/soro.2018.0010

This article presents the design of a novel Extensor-Contractor Pneumatic Artificial Muscle (ECPAM). This new actuator has numerous advantages over traditional pneumatic artificial muscles. These include the ability to both contract and extend relati... Read More about The design and mathematical model of a novel variable stiffness extensor-contractor pneumatic artificial muscle.

Novel soft bending actuator based power augmentation hand exoskeleton controlled by human intention (2018)
Journal Article
Al-Fahaam, H., Davis, S., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Theodoridis, T. (2018). Novel soft bending actuator based power augmentation hand exoskeleton controlled by human intention. Intelligent Service Robotics, 11(3), 247-268. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11370-018-0250-4

This article presents the development of a soft material power augmentation wearable robot using novel bending soft artificial muscles. This soft exoskeleton was developed as a human hand power augmentation system for healthy or partially hand disabl... Read More about Novel soft bending actuator based power augmentation hand exoskeleton controlled by human intention.

Design, fabrication and testing of a 2 DOF compliant flexural microgripper (2018)
Journal Article
Dsouza, R., Navin, K., Theodoridis, T., & Sharma, P. (2018). Design, fabrication and testing of a 2 DOF compliant flexural microgripper. Microsystem Technologies, 24(9), 3867-3883. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-018-3861-y

This paper presents the development of a monolithic two degrees of freedom (2 DOF), piezoelectric actuated microgripper for the manipulation of micro-objects. Micromanipulation and microassembly are the major subjects of interest in recent times and... Read More about Design, fabrication and testing of a 2 DOF compliant flexural microgripper.

A variable stiffness soft gripper using granular jamming and biologically inspired pneumatic muscles (2018)
Journal Article
Al Abeach, L., Nefti-Meziani, S., Theodoridis, T., & Davis, S. (2018). A variable stiffness soft gripper using granular jamming and biologically inspired pneumatic muscles. Journal of Bionic Engineering, 15(2), 236-246. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42235-018-0018-8

As the domains in which robots operate change the objects a robot may be required to grasp and manipulate are likely to vary significantly and often. Furthermore there is increasing likelihood that in the future robots will work collaboratively along... Read More about A variable stiffness soft gripper using granular jamming and biologically inspired pneumatic muscles.