Paper Info
Title
An Integrated Framework for Modular Reconfigurable Soft Robots
Abstract
Soft robots have tremendous motion capability, and their modular methodology helps in setting up reconfigurable and flexible prototypes. In this paper, a user-friendly integrated framework for a modular reconfigurable soft robot system is proposed, which contains a generic electrical design pattern, and a software framework encapsulating a scalable middle tier and user-friendly GUI. This highly compact integrated framework can be deployed in different types of modular soft robot systems and controls every single module in such systems through an easy-to-use API. We applied this framework to three kinds of soft robot systems, namely, dual module, multi-legged, and pneumatic soft robots. The experiment results show the motion control validity, complete robot setup and control, and application scalability of the proposed framework.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ROBIO.2018.8665087
2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Soft robotics,Software,Hardware,Sensors,Pneumatic systems,Protocols
Motion control,Dual module,Soft robotics,Control engineering,Software,Modular design,Engineering,Robot,Software framework,Scalability,Embedded system
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-0377-8
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yihong Zhang1910.65
Manjia Su243.21
Yisheng Guan313745.41
Haifei Zhu42013.25
Shixin Mao532.42