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Muscle-inspired Actuation

Muscle-Inspired Actuation is a type of soft robotic actuation mechanism that emulates the structural and functional characteristics of biological muscle tissue to generate controllable, reversible, and often distributed motion in underwater robots through biomimetic principles.

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2017–2026

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Soft Robot Arm Inspired by the Octopus

Cecilia Laschi, Matteo Cianchetti, Barbara Mazzolai et al. · Advanced Robotics · 2012 · 961 citations

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Polymer artificial muscles

Tissaphern Mirfakhrai, John D. W. Madden, Ray H. Baughman · Materials Today · 2007 · 914 citations · Full text

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Controlled flight of a microrobot powered by soft artificial muscles

Yufeng Chen, Huichan Zhao, Jie Mao et al. · Nature · 2019 · 833 citations · Full text

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Peano-HASEL actuators: Muscle-mimetic, electrohydraulic transducers that linearly contract on activation

Nicholas Kellaris, Vidyacharan Gopaluni Venkata, Garrett M. Smith et al. · Science Robotics · 2018 · 533 citations

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Control of pneumatic muscle actuators

Darwin G. Caldwell, Gustavo A. Medrano‐Cerda · IEEE Control Systems · 1995 · 469 citations

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Authors

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  1. KS
    Koichi Suzumori

    Okayama University, Japan

    13 publications · 598 citations

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  2. DG
    Darwin G. Caldwell

    Italian Institute of Technology, Italy

    11 publications · 945 citations

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  3. RH
    Ray H. Baughman

    The University of Texas at Dallas, United States

    9 publications · 854 citations

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  4. YT
    Yonas Tadesse

    The University of Texas at Dallas, United States

    8 publications · 284 citations

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  5. HK
    Hiroshi Kobayashi

    Tokyo University of Science, Japan

    8 publications · 370 citations

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Institutions

433

  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    17 h-index

    61 publications

    9.3K citations

  2. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

    15 h-index

    74 publications

    3K citations

  3. The University of Texas at Dallas

    Richardson, United States

    13 h-index

    58 publications

    4.5K citations

  4. Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

    Pisa, Italy

    12 h-index

    49 publications

    6.3K citations

  5. Italian Institute of Technology

    Genoa, Italy

    12 h-index

    34 publications

    2.3K citations

  6. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    11 h-index

    76 publications

    3.5K citations

  7. Tokyo Institute of Technology

    Tokyo, Japan

    10 h-index

    26 publications

    1.3K citations

  8. Sungkyunkwan University

    Seoul, South Korea

    10 h-index

    62 publications

    1.8K citations

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  1. Smart Materials and Structures

    SMS · 17 publications · 876 citations

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  2. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

    14 publications · 580 citations

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  4. Advanced Materials

    10 publications · 1.4K citations

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  5. Advanced Robotics

    10 publications · 1.2K citations

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