Stiffness

Series elastic actuators

Gill A. Pratt, Matthew M. Williamson

Citations: 2177 • 2002

Robot Analysis: The Mechanics of Serial and Parallel Manipulators

Lung‐Wen Tsai

Citations: 1851 • 1999

A 3D-printed, functionally graded soft robot powered by combustion

Nicholas W. Bartlett, Michael T. Tolley, Johannes T. B. Overvelde, James C. Weaver, Bobak Mosadegh, Katia Bertoldi, George M. Whitesides, Robert J. Wood

Citations: 1036 • 2015

Graphene kirigami

Melina Blees, Arthur Barnard, Peter A. Rose, Samantha P. Roberts, Kathryn L. McGill, Pinshane Y. Huang, Alexander Ruyack, Joshua W. Kevek, Bryce Kobrin, David A. Muller, Paul L. McEuen

Citations: 877 • 2015

Designing Responsive Buckled Surfaces by Halftone Gel Lithography

Jungwook Kim, James Hanna, Myunghwan Byun, Christian D. Santangelo, Ryan C. Hayward

Citations: 872 • 2012

Compliant actuator designs

Ronald Van Ham, Thomas G. Sugar, Bram Vanderborght, Kevin W. Hollander, Dirk Lefeber

Citations: 823 • 2009

Force Modeling for Needle Insertion Into Soft Tissue

Allison M. Okamura, Christina Simone, M.D. O'Leary

Citations: 815 • 2004

A Unified Passivity-based Control Framework for Position, Torque and Impedance Control of Flexible Joint Robots

Alin Albu‐Schäffer, Christian Ott, Gerd Hirzinger

Citations: 805 • 2007

Needle insertion into soft tissue: A survey

Niki Abolhassani, Rajni V. Patel, Mehrdad Moallem

Citations: 696 • 2006

Fast and "Soft-Arm" Tactics

Antonio Bicchi, Giovanni Tonietti

Citations: 641 • 2004

Multi-functional dielectric elastomer artificial muscles for soft and smart machines

Iain A. Anderson, Todd Gisby, Thomas G. McKay, Benjamin O’Brien, Emilio P. Calius

Citations: 612 • 2012

Running in the real world: adjusting leg stiffness for different surfaces

Daniel P. Ferris, Micky Louie, Claire T. Farley

Citations: 588 • 1998

The NIST robocrane

James S. Albus, Roger Bostelman, Nicholas G. Dagalakis

Citations: 575 • 1993

Design and Control of a Variable Stiffness Actuator for Safe and Fast Physical Human/Robot Interaction

Giovanni Tonietti, Riccardo Schiavi, Antonio Bicchi

Citations: 535 • 2006

A new variable stiffness design: Matching requirements of the next robot generation

Sebastian Wolf, Gerd Hirzinger

Citations: 530 • 2008

Fast‐Response, Stiffness‐Tunable Soft Actuator by Hybrid Multimaterial 3D Printing

Yuan‐Fang Zhang, Ningbin Zhang, Hardik Hingorani, Ningyuan Ding, Dong Wang, Chao Yuan, Biao Zhang, Guoying Gu, Qi Ge

Citations: 504 • 2019

Leveraging elastic instabilities for amplified performance: Spine-inspired high-speed and high-force soft robots

Yichao Tang, Yinding Chi, Jiefeng Sun, Tzu-Hao Huang, Omid Haji Maghsoudi, Andrew J. Spence, Jianguo Zhao, Hao Su, Jie Yin

Citations: 479 • 2020

Force Tracking Impedance Control of Robot Manipulators Under Unknown Environment

Seul Jung, T.C. Hsia, R.G. Bonitz

Citations: 472 • 2004

A three-dimensional actuated origami-inspired transformable metamaterial with multiple degrees of freedom

Johannes T. B. Overvelde, Twan A. de Jong, Yanina Shevchenko, Sergio Becerra, George M. Whitesides, James C. Weaver, Chuck Hoberman, Katia Bertoldi

Citations: 450 • 2016

Compliant actuation of rehabilitation robots

Heike Vallery, Jan F. Veneman, Edwin van Asseldonk, R. Ekkelenkamp, Martin Buss, Herman van der Kooij

Citations: 448 • 2008