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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2021 United Kingdom, Switzerland, Netherlands, United KingdomPublisher:MDPI AG Funded by:EC | SHEROEC| SHEROAuthors: George Thuruthel, Thomas; Bosman, Anton W; Hughes, Josie; Iida, Fumiya;George Thuruthel, Thomas; Bosman, Anton W; Hughes, Josie; Iida, Fumiya;pmc: PMC8706411
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Self-healing sensors have the potential to increase the lifespan of existing sensing technologies, especially in soft robotic and wearable applications. Furthermore, they could bestow additional functionality to the sensing system because of their self-healing ability. This paper presents the design for a self-healing sensor that can be used for damage detection and localization in a continuous manner. The soft sensor can recover full functionality almost instantaneously at room temperature, making the healing process fully autonomous. The working principle of the sensor is based on the measurement of air pressure inside enclosed chambers, making the fabrication and the modeling of the sensors easy. We characterize the force sensing abilities of the proposed sensor and perform damage detection and localization over a one-dimensional and two-dimensional surface using multilateration techniques. The proposed solution is highly scalable, easy-to-build, cheap and even applicable for multi-damage detection. This work was supported by the SHERO project, a Future and Emerging Technologies284(FET) programme of the European Commission (grant agreement ID 828818)
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen gold 7 citations 7 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!visibility 74visibility views 74 download downloads 37 Powered bymore_vert Europe PubMed Centra... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2021Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8706411Data sources: PubMed CentralSensorsOther literature type . Article . 2021 . 2022 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYFull-Text: http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/24/8284/pdfInfoscience - EPFL scientific publicationsArticleData sources: Infoscience - EPFL scientific publicationsadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2018Publisher:Frontiers Media SA Funded by:EC | MD PAEDIGREE, EC | FORECEE, EC | EPoS +24 projectsEC| MD PAEDIGREE ,EC| FORECEE ,EC| EPoS ,EC| GALAXY ,EC| IHMS ,EC| MiND ,EC| MYNEWGUT ,EC| ELITE ,EC| METAHIT ,EC| EnteroBariatric ,EC| MAARS ,EC| FunKeyGut ,EC| EVOTAR ,EC| FastBio ,EC| Eat2beNICE ,EC| SYSCID ,EC| ALLERGUT ,EC| AMYLOMICS ,EC| LIVESEED ,EC| CrUCCial ,EC| HUMAN MICROBIOTA ,EC| MIND THE GUT ,EC| METACARDIS ,EC| CURE ,EC| AD-gut ,EC| FABCARB ,EC| MultipleMSAuthors: Dirk, Hadrich;Dirk, Hadrich;The human microbiome has emerged as the crucial moderator in the interactions between food and our body. It is increasingly recognised that the microbiome can change our mind and health status, or switch on a wide range of diseases including cancer, cardio-metabolic diseases, allergies, and obesity. The causes of diseases are often only partially understood. However, nutrients, metabolites, and microbes are increasingly regarded as key players, even where the complete disease mechanisms remain unclear. The key to progress in the future will be to use and exploit additional, newly emerging disciplines such as metagenomics to complement patient information and to bring our understanding of diseases and the interrelation and effects of nutritional molecules to the next level. The EU has already funded 216 projects under the 7th Framework Programme and Horizon 2020 programmes to promote metagenomics and to advance our knowledge of microbes. This support started with the catalysing MetaHIT project that has produced a catalogue of gut microbes, and has arrived now at the very multi-disciplinary SYSCID action looking at how the microbiome is driving its resilience potential and our health. Together, these projects involve an investment of more than €498 M. However, in Horizon 2020, the new EU Health and Food Work Programmes for 2018–2020 go even further by setting new goals to find applications and to generate more knowledge on the microbiome, nutrition, various hosts of microbes, and their relation to health and disease. The big vision is to modulate health and diseases via the microbiome and nutrition, while at the same time other factors such as omics, molecular signatures, and lifestyle are constant. In this way, microbiome and nutrition research is moving from an isolated and despised offside position to a beacon of hope with a lot of potential and possibilities.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen gold 66 citations 66 popularity Top 1% influence Top 10% impulse Top 1% Powered by BIP!visibility 1visibility views 1 Powered bymore_vert Europe PubMed Centra... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2018Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6009232Data sources: PubMed Centraladd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2022 GermanyPublisher:Elsevier BV Funded by:EC | M-Runners, EC | HBP SGA1, UKRI | Offshore Infrastructure R... +2 projectsEC| M-Runners ,EC| HBP SGA1 ,UKRI| Offshore Infrastructure Robotic Inspection System (OSIRIS) ,EC| HBP SGA2 ,EC| THEKohler, Matthias; Bengtsson, Fredrik; Stratmann, Philipp; Röhrbein, Florian; Knoll, Alois; Albu-Schäffer, Alin Olimpiu; Jörntell, Henrik;Summary: The spinal cord is engaged in all forms of motor performance but its functions are far from understood. Because network connectivity defines function, we explored the connectivity of muscular, tendon, and tactile sensory inputs among a wide population of spinal interneurons in the lower cervical segments. Using low noise intracellular whole cell recordings in the decerebrated, non-anesthetized cat in vivo, we could define mono-, di-, and trisynaptic inputs as well as the weights of each input. Whereas each neuron had a highly specific input, and each indirect input could moreover be explained by inputs in other recorded neurons, we unexpectedly also found the input connectivity of the spinal interneuron population to form a continuum. Our data hence contrasts with the currently widespread notion of distinct classes of interneurons. We argue that this suggested diversified physiological connectivity, which likely requires a major component of circuitry learning, implies a more flexible functionality.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routesgold 5 citations 5 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!more_vert iScience; DLR public... arrow_drop_down iScience; DLR publication serverOther literature type . Article . 2022 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Preprint 2020Publisher:American Chemical Society (ACS) Funded by:EC | MADONNA, UKRI | Complex Chemical Systems ..., UKRI | Ultra-Reduced Polyoxometa... +5 projectsEC| MADONNA ,UKRI| Complex Chemical Systems Platform Exploring Inorganic Intelligence ,UKRI| Ultra-Reduced Polyoxometalates as Electron-Coupled-Proton-Systems for Energy Storage ,EC| SMART-POM ,UKRI| 3DSynth: Design and fabrication of cartridges for digital chemical synthesis ,UKRI| CHEMIFY: A System to Produce Universal Digital Chemical Synthesis ,UKRI| Programmable 'Digital' Synthesis for Discovery & Scale-up of Molecules, Clusters & Nanomaterials ,UKRI| Chemobots: Digital-Chemical-Robotics to Convert Code to Molecules and Complex SystemsHou, Wenduan; Bubliauskas, Andrius; Kitson, Philip J.; Francoia, Jean-Patrick; Powell-Davies, Henry; Parrilla Gutierrez, Juan Manuel; Frei, Przemyslaw; Manzano, J. Sebastián; Cronin, Leroy;We describe a system, ChemSCAD, for the creation of digital reactors based on the chemical operations, physical parameters, and synthetic sequence to produce a given target compound, to show that the system can translate the gram-scale batch synthesis of the antiviral compound Ribavirin (yield 43% over three steps), the narcolepsy drug Modafinil (yield 60% over three steps), and both batch and flow instances of the synthesis of the anticancer agent Lomustine (batch yield 65% over two steps) in purities greater than or equal to 96%. The syntheses of compounds developed using the ChemSCAD system, including reactor designs and analytical data, can be stored in a database repository, with the information necessary to critically evaluate and improve upon reactionware syntheses being easily shared and versioned. A digital-to-physical workflow with associated software for the easy design of 3D printable bespoke reactionware is presented, and its use is demonstrated for the synthesis of three API targets.
CORE (RIOXX-UK Aggre... arrow_drop_down ACS Central ScienceArticle . 2021 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Standard ACS AuthorChoice/Editors’ Choice Usage AgreementACS Central ScienceArticle . 2021Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7908023Data sources: PubMed Centralhttps://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/1...ArticleLicense: acs-specific: authorchoice/editors choice usage agreementData sources: UnpayWalladd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routesgold 38 citations 38 popularity Top 1% influence Top 10% impulse Top 1% Powered by BIP!download 33download downloads 33 Powered bymore_vert CORE (RIOXX-UK Aggre... arrow_drop_down ACS Central ScienceArticle . 2021 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Standard ACS AuthorChoice/Editors’ Choice Usage AgreementACS Central ScienceArticle . 2021Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7908023Data sources: PubMed Centralhttps://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/1...ArticleLicense: acs-specific: authorchoice/editors choice usage agreementData sources: UnpayWalladd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Preprint 2021 United KingdomPublisher:Research Square Platform LLC Funded by:EC | NIMA, EC | CONBOTS, EC | TRIMANUAL +1 projectsEC| NIMA ,EC| CONBOTS ,EC| TRIMANUAL ,EC| RESHAPENoccaro, A.; Eden, J.; Di Pino, G.; Formica, D.; Burdet, E.;AbstractThe successful completion of complex tasks like hanging a picture or laparoscopic surgery requires coordinated motion of more than two limbs. User-controlled supernumerary robotic limbs (SL) have been proposed to bypass the need for coordination with a partner in such tasks. However, neither the capability to control multiple limbs alone relative to collaborative control with partners, nor how that capability varies across different tasks, is well understood. In this work, we present an investigation of tasks requiring three-hands where the foot was used as an additional source of motor commands. We considered: (1) how does simultaneous control of three hands compare to a cooperating dyad; (2) how this relative performance was altered by the existence of constraints emanating from real or virtual physical connections (mechanical constraints) or from cognitive limits (cognitive constraints). It was found that a cooperating dyad outperformed a single user in all scenarios in terms of task score, path efficiency and motion smoothness. However, while the participants were able to reach more targets with increasing mechanical constraints/decreasing number of simultaneous goals, the relative difference in performance between a dyad and a participant performing trimanual activities decreased, suggesting further potential for SLs in this class of scenario.
Scientific Reports arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2021Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8096970Data sources: PubMed CentralSpiral - Imperial College Digital RepositoryArticle . 2021License: CC BYData sources: Spiral - Imperial College Digital Repositoryadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen gold 17 citations 17 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!visibility 2visibility views 2 download downloads 6 Powered bymore_vert Scientific Reports arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2021Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8096970Data sources: PubMed CentralSpiral - Imperial College Digital RepositoryArticle . 2021License: CC BYData sources: Spiral - Imperial College Digital Repositoryadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2020 TurkeyPublisher:Frontiers Media SA Funded by:EC | socSMCs, EC | EnTimeMentEC| socSMCs ,EC| EnTimeMentJudith Bütepage; Ali Ghadirzadeh; Ali Ghadirzadeh; Özge Öztimur Karadaǧ; Özge Öztimur Karadaǧ; Mårten Björkman; Danica Kragic;WOS: 000531230100001 PubMed: 33501215 To coordinate actions with an interaction partner requires a constant exchange of sensorimotor signals. Humans acquire these skills in infancy and early childhood mostly by imitation learning and active engagement with a skilled partner. They require the ability to predict and adapt to one's partner during an interaction. In this work we want to explore these ideas in a human-robot interaction setting in which a robot is required to learn interactive tasks from a combination of observational and kinesthetic learning. To this end, we propose a deep learning framework consisting of a number of components for (1) human and robot motion embedding, (2) motion prediction of the human partner, and (3) generation of robot joint trajectories matching the human motion. As long-term motion prediction methods often suffer from the problem of regression to the mean, our technical contribution here is a novel probabilistic latent variable model which does not predict in joint space but in latent space. To test the proposed method, we collect human-human interaction data and human-robot interaction data of four interactive tasks "hand-shake," "hand-wave," "parachute fist-bump," and "rocket fist-bump." We demonstrate experimentally the importance of predictive and adaptive components as well as low-level abstractions to successfully learn to imitate human behavior in interactive social tasks. EU through the project socSMCs (H2020-FETPROACT-2014); Swedish Foundation for Strategic ResearchSwedish Foundation for Strategic Research; EnTimeMent [H2020-FETPROACT-824160]; Knut and AliceWallenberg FoundationKnut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation This work was supported by the EU through the project socSMCs (H2020-FETPROACT-2014) and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research and EnTimeMent (H2020-FETPROACT-824160), and the Knut and AliceWallenberg Foundation.
Europe PubMed Centra... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2020Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7806025Data sources: PubMed CentralarXiv.org e-Print ArchiveOther literature type . Preprint . 2019Data sources: arXiv.org e-Print ArchiveFrontiers in Robotics and AI; Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat Üniversitesi Kurumsal Akademik SistemiArticle . 2020 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYhttps://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv...Article . 2019License: arXiv Non-Exclusive DistributionData sources: Dataciteadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen gold 14 citations 14 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!visibility 38visibility views 38 Powered bymore_vert Europe PubMed Centra... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2020Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7806025Data sources: PubMed CentralarXiv.org e-Print ArchiveOther literature type . Preprint . 2019Data sources: arXiv.org e-Print ArchiveFrontiers in Robotics and AI; Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat Üniversitesi Kurumsal Akademik SistemiArticle . 2020 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYhttps://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv...Article . 2019License: arXiv Non-Exclusive DistributionData sources: Dataciteadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2018 ItalyPublisher:Public Library of Science (PLoS) Funded by:EC | GrapheneCore2, EC | NeurofibresEC| GrapheneCore2 ,EC| NeurofibresAnand Kumar Mishra; Francesca Tramacere; Roberto Guarino; Nicola M. Pugno; Barbara Mazzolai;Plants use many strategies to move efficiently in soil, such as growth from the tip, tropic movements, and morphological changes. In this paper, we propose a method to translate morphological features of Zea mays roots into a new design of soft robots that will be able to move in soil. The method relies on image processing and curve fitting techniques to extract the profile of Z. mays primary root. We implemented an analytic translation of the root profile in a 3D model (CAD) to fabricate root-like probes by means of 3D printing technology. Then, we carried out a comparative analysis among the artificial root-like probe and probes with different tip shapes (cylindrical, conical, elliptical, and parabolic) and diameters (11, 9, 7, 5, and 3 mm). The results showed that the energy consumption and the penetration force of the bioinspired probe are better with respect to the other shapes for all the diameters of the developed probes. For 100 mm of penetration depth and 7 mm of probe diameter, the energy consumption of the bioinspired probe is 89% lesser with respect to the cylindrical probe and 26% lesser with respect to the conical probe. The penetration performance of the considered tip shapes was evaluated also by means of numerical simulations, obtaining a good agreement with the experimental results. Additional investigations on plant root morphology, movement strategies, and material properties can allow the development of innovative bioinspired solutions exploitable in challenging environments. This research can bring to breakthrough scenarios in different fields, such as exploration tasks, environmental monitoring, geotechnical studies, and medical applications.
IRIS - Institutional... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2018Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5991344Data sources: PubMed Centraladd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen gold 17 citations 17 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!visibility 1visibility views 1 Powered bymore_vert IRIS - Institutional... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2018Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5991344Data sources: PubMed Centraladd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2021 United KingdomPublisher:MDPI AG Funded by:EC | CONBOTS, EC | ph-coding, UKRI | Micro-Robotics for Surger... +2 projectsEC| CONBOTS ,EC| ph-coding ,UKRI| Micro-Robotics for Surgery ,EC| NIMA ,EC| ReHybZebin Huang; Ziwei Wang; Weibang Bai; Yanpei Huang; Lichao Sun; Bo Xiao; Eric M. Yeatman;Human operators have the trend of increasing physical and mental workloads when performing teleoperation tasks in uncertain and dynamic environments. In addition, their performances are influenced by subjective factors, potentially leading to operational errors or task failure. Although agent-based methods offer a promising solution to the above problems, the human experience and intelligence are necessary for teleoperation scenarios. In this paper, a truncated quantile critics reinforcement learning-based integrated framework is proposed for human–agent teleoperation that encompasses training, assessment and agent-based arbitration. The proposed framework allows for an expert training agent, a bilateral training and cooperation process to realize the co-optimization of agent and human. It can provide efficient and quantifiable training feedback. Experiments have been conducted to train subjects with the developed algorithm. The performances of human–human and human–agent cooperation modes are also compared. The results have shown that subjects can complete the tasks of reaching and picking and placing with the assistance of an agent in a shorter operational time, with a higher success rate and less workload than human–human cooperation.
Europe PubMed Centra... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2021Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8708703Data sources: PubMed CentralSensorsOther literature type . Article . 2021 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYFull-Text: http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/24/8341/pdfSpiral - Imperial College Digital RepositoryArticle . 2021License: CC BYData sources: Spiral - Imperial College Digital Repositoryadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen gold 10 citations 10 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!visibility 3visibility views 3 Powered bymore_vert Europe PubMed Centra... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2021Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8708703Data sources: PubMed CentralSensorsOther literature type . Article . 2021 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYFull-Text: http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/24/8341/pdfSpiral - Imperial College Digital RepositoryArticle . 2021License: CC BYData sources: Spiral - Imperial College Digital Repositoryadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2021 Switzerland, United KingdomPublisher:Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Funded by:EC | SHEROEC| SHEROThuruthel, TG; Hughes, J; Georgopoulou, A; Clemens, F; Iida, F;Soft robotic sensors have been limited in their applications due to their highly nonlinear time variant behavior. Current studies are either looking into techniques to improve the mechano-electrical properties of these sensors or into modelling algorithms that account for the history of each sensor. Here, we present a method for combining multi-material soft strain sensors to obtain equivalent higher quality sensors; better than each of the individual strain sensors. The core idea behind this work is to use a combination of redundant and disjoint strain sensors to compensate for the time-variant hidden states of a soft-bodied system, to finally obtain the true strain state in a static manner using a learning-based approach. We provide methods to develop these variable sensors and metrics to estimate their dissimilarity and efficacy of each sensor combinations, which can double down as a benchmarking tool for soft robotic sensors. The proposed approach is experimentally validated on a pneumatic actuator with embedded soft strain sensors. Our results show that static data from a combination of nonlinear time variant strain sensors is sufficient to accurately estimate the strain state of a system. © 2016 IEEE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen hybrid 12 citations 12 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!visibility 12visibility views 12 download downloads 28 Powered bymore_vert https://doi.org/10.1... arrow_drop_down Infoscience - EPFL scientific publicationsArticleData sources: Infoscience - EPFL scientific publicationsadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2022 FrancePublisher:Oxford University Press (OUP) Funded by:EC | GrowBotEC| GrowBotAuthors: Romain Lehnebach; Cloé Paul-Victor; Elisa Courric; Nick P Rowe;Romain Lehnebach; Cloé Paul-Victor; Elisa Courric; Nick P Rowe;Many climbing plants have microspines on their stems, which facilitate attachment and prevent slipping and falling from host plant supports. Extending via growth through complex environments and anchoring stems to substrates with minimal contact forces are key benefits for climbing plants. Microspines are also highly desirable features for new technologies and applications in soft robotics. Using a novel sled-like device, we investigated static and sliding attachment forces generated by stems in 10 species of tropical climber from French Guiana differing in size and climbing habit. Eight species showed higher static and sliding forces when their stems were pulled in the basal direction against a standard surface than in the apical direction. This anisotropic behaviour suggests that tropical climbers have evolved different ratchet-like mechanisms that allow easy sliding forwards but are resistant to slipping downwards. The presence of a downwards ‘stick-and-slip’ phenomenon, where static attachment is not significantly stronger than maximal sliding attachment, was present in most species apart from three showing relatively weak attachment by microspines. This indicates that diverse microspine attachment strategies exist in climbing plants. This diversity of functional properties offers a range of potential design specifications for climbing strategies on different substrates for artificial climbing artefacts. International audience
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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2021 United Kingdom, Switzerland, Netherlands, United KingdomPublisher:MDPI AG Funded by:EC | SHEROEC| SHEROAuthors: George Thuruthel, Thomas; Bosman, Anton W; Hughes, Josie; Iida, Fumiya;George Thuruthel, Thomas; Bosman, Anton W; Hughes, Josie; Iida, Fumiya;pmc: PMC8706411
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Self-healing sensors have the potential to increase the lifespan of existing sensing technologies, especially in soft robotic and wearable applications. Furthermore, they could bestow additional functionality to the sensing system because of their self-healing ability. This paper presents the design for a self-healing sensor that can be used for damage detection and localization in a continuous manner. The soft sensor can recover full functionality almost instantaneously at room temperature, making the healing process fully autonomous. The working principle of the sensor is based on the measurement of air pressure inside enclosed chambers, making the fabrication and the modeling of the sensors easy. We characterize the force sensing abilities of the proposed sensor and perform damage detection and localization over a one-dimensional and two-dimensional surface using multilateration techniques. The proposed solution is highly scalable, easy-to-build, cheap and even applicable for multi-damage detection. This work was supported by the SHERO project, a Future and Emerging Technologies284(FET) programme of the European Commission (grant agreement ID 828818)
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen gold 7 citations 7 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!visibility 74visibility views 74 download downloads 37 Powered bymore_vert Europe PubMed Centra... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2021Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8706411Data sources: PubMed CentralSensorsOther literature type . Article . 2021 . 2022 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYFull-Text: http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/24/8284/pdfInfoscience - EPFL scientific publicationsArticleData sources: Infoscience - EPFL scientific publicationsadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2018Publisher:Frontiers Media SA Funded by:EC | MD PAEDIGREE, EC | FORECEE, EC | EPoS +24 projectsEC| MD PAEDIGREE ,EC| FORECEE ,EC| EPoS ,EC| GALAXY ,EC| IHMS ,EC| MiND ,EC| MYNEWGUT ,EC| ELITE ,EC| METAHIT ,EC| EnteroBariatric ,EC| MAARS ,EC| FunKeyGut ,EC| EVOTAR ,EC| FastBio ,EC| Eat2beNICE ,EC| SYSCID ,EC| ALLERGUT ,EC| AMYLOMICS ,EC| LIVESEED ,EC| CrUCCial ,EC| HUMAN MICROBIOTA ,EC| MIND THE GUT ,EC| METACARDIS ,EC| CURE ,EC| AD-gut ,EC| FABCARB ,EC| MultipleMSAuthors: Dirk, Hadrich;Dirk, Hadrich;The human microbiome has emerged as the crucial moderator in the interactions between food and our body. It is increasingly recognised that the microbiome can change our mind and health status, or switch on a wide range of diseases including cancer, cardio-metabolic diseases, allergies, and obesity. The causes of diseases are often only partially understood. However, nutrients, metabolites, and microbes are increasingly regarded as key players, even where the complete disease mechanisms remain unclear. The key to progress in the future will be to use and exploit additional, newly emerging disciplines such as metagenomics to complement patient information and to bring our understanding of diseases and the interrelation and effects of nutritional molecules to the next level. The EU has already funded 216 projects under the 7th Framework Programme and Horizon 2020 programmes to promote metagenomics and to advance our knowledge of microbes. This support started with the catalysing MetaHIT project that has produced a catalogue of gut microbes, and has arrived now at the very multi-disciplinary SYSCID action looking at how the microbiome is driving its resilience potential and our health. Together, these projects involve an investment of more than €498 M. However, in Horizon 2020, the new EU Health and Food Work Programmes for 2018–2020 go even further by setting new goals to find applications and to generate more knowledge on the microbiome, nutrition, various hosts of microbes, and their relation to health and disease. The big vision is to modulate health and diseases via the microbiome and nutrition, while at the same time other factors such as omics, molecular signatures, and lifestyle are constant. In this way, microbiome and nutrition research is moving from an isolated and despised offside position to a beacon of hope with a lot of potential and possibilities.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen gold 66 citations 66 popularity Top 1% influence Top 10% impulse Top 1% Powered by BIP!visibility 1visibility views 1 Powered bymore_vert Europe PubMed Centra... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2018Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6009232Data sources: PubMed Centraladd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2022 GermanyPublisher:Elsevier BV Funded by:EC | M-Runners, EC | HBP SGA1, UKRI | Offshore Infrastructure R... +2 projectsEC| M-Runners ,EC| HBP SGA1 ,UKRI| Offshore Infrastructure Robotic Inspection System (OSIRIS) ,EC| HBP SGA2 ,EC| THEKohler, Matthias; Bengtsson, Fredrik; Stratmann, Philipp; Röhrbein, Florian; Knoll, Alois; Albu-Schäffer, Alin Olimpiu; Jörntell, Henrik;Summary: The spinal cord is engaged in all forms of motor performance but its functions are far from understood. Because network connectivity defines function, we explored the connectivity of muscular, tendon, and tactile sensory inputs among a wide population of spinal interneurons in the lower cervical segments. Using low noise intracellular whole cell recordings in the decerebrated, non-anesthetized cat in vivo, we could define mono-, di-, and trisynaptic inputs as well as the weights of each input. Whereas each neuron had a highly specific input, and each indirect input could moreover be explained by inputs in other recorded neurons, we unexpectedly also found the input connectivity of the spinal interneuron population to form a continuum. Our data hence contrasts with the currently widespread notion of distinct classes of interneurons. We argue that this suggested diversified physiological connectivity, which likely requires a major component of circuitry learning, implies a more flexible functionality.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routesgold 5 citations 5 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!more_vert iScience; DLR public... arrow_drop_down iScience; DLR publication serverOther literature type . Article . 2022 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Elsevier TDMadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Preprint 2020Publisher:American Chemical Society (ACS) Funded by:EC | MADONNA, UKRI | Complex Chemical Systems ..., UKRI | Ultra-Reduced Polyoxometa... +5 projectsEC| MADONNA ,UKRI| Complex Chemical Systems Platform Exploring Inorganic Intelligence ,UKRI| Ultra-Reduced Polyoxometalates as Electron-Coupled-Proton-Systems for Energy Storage ,EC| SMART-POM ,UKRI| 3DSynth: Design and fabrication of cartridges for digital chemical synthesis ,UKRI| CHEMIFY: A System to Produce Universal Digital Chemical Synthesis ,UKRI| Programmable 'Digital' Synthesis for Discovery & Scale-up of Molecules, Clusters & Nanomaterials ,UKRI| Chemobots: Digital-Chemical-Robotics to Convert Code to Molecules and Complex SystemsHou, Wenduan; Bubliauskas, Andrius; Kitson, Philip J.; Francoia, Jean-Patrick; Powell-Davies, Henry; Parrilla Gutierrez, Juan Manuel; Frei, Przemyslaw; Manzano, J. Sebastián; Cronin, Leroy;We describe a system, ChemSCAD, for the creation of digital reactors based on the chemical operations, physical parameters, and synthetic sequence to produce a given target compound, to show that the system can translate the gram-scale batch synthesis of the antiviral compound Ribavirin (yield 43% over three steps), the narcolepsy drug Modafinil (yield 60% over three steps), and both batch and flow instances of the synthesis of the anticancer agent Lomustine (batch yield 65% over two steps) in purities greater than or equal to 96%. The syntheses of compounds developed using the ChemSCAD system, including reactor designs and analytical data, can be stored in a database repository, with the information necessary to critically evaluate and improve upon reactionware syntheses being easily shared and versioned. A digital-to-physical workflow with associated software for the easy design of 3D printable bespoke reactionware is presented, and its use is demonstrated for the synthesis of three API targets.
CORE (RIOXX-UK Aggre... arrow_drop_down ACS Central ScienceArticle . 2021 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Standard ACS AuthorChoice/Editors’ Choice Usage AgreementACS Central ScienceArticle . 2021Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7908023Data sources: PubMed Centralhttps://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/1...ArticleLicense: acs-specific: authorchoice/editors choice usage agreementData sources: UnpayWalladd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routesgold 38 citations 38 popularity Top 1% influence Top 10% impulse Top 1% Powered by BIP!download 33download downloads 33 Powered bymore_vert CORE (RIOXX-UK Aggre... arrow_drop_down ACS Central ScienceArticle . 2021 . Peer-reviewedLicense: Standard ACS AuthorChoice/Editors’ Choice Usage AgreementACS Central ScienceArticle . 2021Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7908023Data sources: PubMed Centralhttps://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/1...ArticleLicense: acs-specific: authorchoice/editors choice usage agreementData sources: UnpayWalladd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Preprint 2021 United KingdomPublisher:Research Square Platform LLC Funded by:EC | NIMA, EC | CONBOTS, EC | TRIMANUAL +1 projectsEC| NIMA ,EC| CONBOTS ,EC| TRIMANUAL ,EC| RESHAPENoccaro, A.; Eden, J.; Di Pino, G.; Formica, D.; Burdet, E.;AbstractThe successful completion of complex tasks like hanging a picture or laparoscopic surgery requires coordinated motion of more than two limbs. User-controlled supernumerary robotic limbs (SL) have been proposed to bypass the need for coordination with a partner in such tasks. However, neither the capability to control multiple limbs alone relative to collaborative control with partners, nor how that capability varies across different tasks, is well understood. In this work, we present an investigation of tasks requiring three-hands where the foot was used as an additional source of motor commands. We considered: (1) how does simultaneous control of three hands compare to a cooperating dyad; (2) how this relative performance was altered by the existence of constraints emanating from real or virtual physical connections (mechanical constraints) or from cognitive limits (cognitive constraints). It was found that a cooperating dyad outperformed a single user in all scenarios in terms of task score, path efficiency and motion smoothness. However, while the participants were able to reach more targets with increasing mechanical constraints/decreasing number of simultaneous goals, the relative difference in performance between a dyad and a participant performing trimanual activities decreased, suggesting further potential for SLs in this class of scenario.
Scientific Reports arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2021Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8096970Data sources: PubMed CentralSpiral - Imperial College Digital RepositoryArticle . 2021License: CC BYData sources: Spiral - Imperial College Digital Repositoryadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen gold 17 citations 17 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!visibility 2visibility views 2 download downloads 6 Powered bymore_vert Scientific Reports arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2021Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8096970Data sources: PubMed CentralSpiral - Imperial College Digital RepositoryArticle . 2021License: CC BYData sources: Spiral - Imperial College Digital Repositoryadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2020 TurkeyPublisher:Frontiers Media SA Funded by:EC | socSMCs, EC | EnTimeMentEC| socSMCs ,EC| EnTimeMentJudith Bütepage; Ali Ghadirzadeh; Ali Ghadirzadeh; Özge Öztimur Karadaǧ; Özge Öztimur Karadaǧ; Mårten Björkman; Danica Kragic;WOS: 000531230100001 PubMed: 33501215 To coordinate actions with an interaction partner requires a constant exchange of sensorimotor signals. Humans acquire these skills in infancy and early childhood mostly by imitation learning and active engagement with a skilled partner. They require the ability to predict and adapt to one's partner during an interaction. In this work we want to explore these ideas in a human-robot interaction setting in which a robot is required to learn interactive tasks from a combination of observational and kinesthetic learning. To this end, we propose a deep learning framework consisting of a number of components for (1) human and robot motion embedding, (2) motion prediction of the human partner, and (3) generation of robot joint trajectories matching the human motion. As long-term motion prediction methods often suffer from the problem of regression to the mean, our technical contribution here is a novel probabilistic latent variable model which does not predict in joint space but in latent space. To test the proposed method, we collect human-human interaction data and human-robot interaction data of four interactive tasks "hand-shake," "hand-wave," "parachute fist-bump," and "rocket fist-bump." We demonstrate experimentally the importance of predictive and adaptive components as well as low-level abstractions to successfully learn to imitate human behavior in interactive social tasks. EU through the project socSMCs (H2020-FETPROACT-2014); Swedish Foundation for Strategic ResearchSwedish Foundation for Strategic Research; EnTimeMent [H2020-FETPROACT-824160]; Knut and AliceWallenberg FoundationKnut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation This work was supported by the EU through the project socSMCs (H2020-FETPROACT-2014) and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research and EnTimeMent (H2020-FETPROACT-824160), and the Knut and AliceWallenberg Foundation.
Europe PubMed Centra... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2020Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7806025Data sources: PubMed CentralarXiv.org e-Print ArchiveOther literature type . Preprint . 2019Data sources: arXiv.org e-Print ArchiveFrontiers in Robotics and AI; Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat Üniversitesi Kurumsal Akademik SistemiArticle . 2020 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYhttps://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv...Article . 2019License: arXiv Non-Exclusive DistributionData sources: Dataciteadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen gold 14 citations 14 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!visibility 38visibility views 38 Powered bymore_vert Europe PubMed Centra... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2020Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7806025Data sources: PubMed CentralarXiv.org e-Print ArchiveOther literature type . Preprint . 2019Data sources: arXiv.org e-Print ArchiveFrontiers in Robotics and AI; Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat Üniversitesi Kurumsal Akademik SistemiArticle . 2020 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYhttps://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv...Article . 2019License: arXiv Non-Exclusive DistributionData sources: Dataciteadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2018 ItalyPublisher:Public Library of Science (PLoS) Funded by:EC | GrapheneCore2, EC | NeurofibresEC| GrapheneCore2 ,EC| NeurofibresAnand Kumar Mishra; Francesca Tramacere; Roberto Guarino; Nicola M. Pugno; Barbara Mazzolai;Plants use many strategies to move efficiently in soil, such as growth from the tip, tropic movements, and morphological changes. In this paper, we propose a method to translate morphological features of Zea mays roots into a new design of soft robots that will be able to move in soil. The method relies on image processing and curve fitting techniques to extract the profile of Z. mays primary root. We implemented an analytic translation of the root profile in a 3D model (CAD) to fabricate root-like probes by means of 3D printing technology. Then, we carried out a comparative analysis among the artificial root-like probe and probes with different tip shapes (cylindrical, conical, elliptical, and parabolic) and diameters (11, 9, 7, 5, and 3 mm). The results showed that the energy consumption and the penetration force of the bioinspired probe are better with respect to the other shapes for all the diameters of the developed probes. For 100 mm of penetration depth and 7 mm of probe diameter, the energy consumption of the bioinspired probe is 89% lesser with respect to the cylindrical probe and 26% lesser with respect to the conical probe. The penetration performance of the considered tip shapes was evaluated also by means of numerical simulations, obtaining a good agreement with the experimental results. Additional investigations on plant root morphology, movement strategies, and material properties can allow the development of innovative bioinspired solutions exploitable in challenging environments. This research can bring to breakthrough scenarios in different fields, such as exploration tasks, environmental monitoring, geotechnical studies, and medical applications.
IRIS - Institutional... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2018Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5991344Data sources: PubMed Centraladd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen gold 17 citations 17 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!visibility 1visibility views 1 Powered bymore_vert IRIS - Institutional... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2018Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5991344Data sources: PubMed Centraladd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2021 United KingdomPublisher:MDPI AG Funded by:EC | CONBOTS, EC | ph-coding, UKRI | Micro-Robotics for Surger... +2 projectsEC| CONBOTS ,EC| ph-coding ,UKRI| Micro-Robotics for Surgery ,EC| NIMA ,EC| ReHybZebin Huang; Ziwei Wang; Weibang Bai; Yanpei Huang; Lichao Sun; Bo Xiao; Eric M. Yeatman;Human operators have the trend of increasing physical and mental workloads when performing teleoperation tasks in uncertain and dynamic environments. In addition, their performances are influenced by subjective factors, potentially leading to operational errors or task failure. Although agent-based methods offer a promising solution to the above problems, the human experience and intelligence are necessary for teleoperation scenarios. In this paper, a truncated quantile critics reinforcement learning-based integrated framework is proposed for human–agent teleoperation that encompasses training, assessment and agent-based arbitration. The proposed framework allows for an expert training agent, a bilateral training and cooperation process to realize the co-optimization of agent and human. It can provide efficient and quantifiable training feedback. Experiments have been conducted to train subjects with the developed algorithm. The performances of human–human and human–agent cooperation modes are also compared. The results have shown that subjects can complete the tasks of reaching and picking and placing with the assistance of an agent in a shorter operational time, with a higher success rate and less workload than human–human cooperation.
Europe PubMed Centra... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2021Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8708703Data sources: PubMed CentralSensorsOther literature type . Article . 2021 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYFull-Text: http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/24/8341/pdfSpiral - Imperial College Digital RepositoryArticle . 2021License: CC BYData sources: Spiral - Imperial College Digital Repositoryadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen gold 10 citations 10 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!visibility 3visibility views 3 Powered bymore_vert Europe PubMed Centra... arrow_drop_down Europe PubMed CentralArticle . 2021Full-Text: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC8708703Data sources: PubMed CentralSensorsOther literature type . Article . 2021 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYFull-Text: http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/24/8341/pdfSpiral - Imperial College Digital RepositoryArticle . 2021License: CC BYData sources: Spiral - Imperial College Digital Repositoryadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2021 Switzerland, United KingdomPublisher:Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Funded by:EC | SHEROEC| SHEROThuruthel, TG; Hughes, J; Georgopoulou, A; Clemens, F; Iida, F;Soft robotic sensors have been limited in their applications due to their highly nonlinear time variant behavior. Current studies are either looking into techniques to improve the mechano-electrical properties of these sensors or into modelling algorithms that account for the history of each sensor. Here, we present a method for combining multi-material soft strain sensors to obtain equivalent higher quality sensors; better than each of the individual strain sensors. The core idea behind this work is to use a combination of redundant and disjoint strain sensors to compensate for the time-variant hidden states of a soft-bodied system, to finally obtain the true strain state in a static manner using a learning-based approach. We provide methods to develop these variable sensors and metrics to estimate their dissimilarity and efficacy of each sensor combinations, which can double down as a benchmarking tool for soft robotic sensors. The proposed approach is experimentally validated on a pneumatic actuator with embedded soft strain sensors. Our results show that static data from a combination of nonlinear time variant strain sensors is sufficient to accurately estimate the strain state of a system. © 2016 IEEE.
https://doi.org/10.1... arrow_drop_down Infoscience - EPFL scientific publicationsArticleData sources: Infoscience - EPFL scientific publicationsadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess RoutesGreen hybrid 12 citations 12 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!visibility 12visibility views 12 download downloads 28 Powered bymore_vert https://doi.org/10.1... arrow_drop_down Infoscience - EPFL scientific publicationsArticleData sources: Infoscience - EPFL scientific publicationsadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2022 FrancePublisher:Oxford University Press (OUP) Funded by:EC | GrowBotEC| GrowBotAuthors: Romain Lehnebach; Cloé Paul-Victor; Elisa Courric; Nick P Rowe;Romain Lehnebach; Cloé Paul-Victor; Elisa Courric; Nick P Rowe;Many climbing plants have microspines on their stems, which facilitate attachment and prevent slipping and falling from host plant supports. Extending via growth through complex environments and anchoring stems to substrates with minimal contact forces are key benefits for climbing plants. Microspines are also highly desirable features for new technologies and applications in soft robotics. Using a novel sled-like device, we investigated static and sliding attachment forces generated by stems in 10 species of tropical climber from French Guiana differing in size and climbing habit. Eight species showed higher static and sliding forces when their stems were pulled in the basal direction against a standard surface than in the apical direction. This anisotropic behaviour suggests that tropical climbers have evolved different ratchet-like mechanisms that allow easy sliding forwards but are resistant to slipping downwards. The presence of a downwards ‘stick-and-slip’ phenomenon, where static attachment is not significantly stronger than maximal sliding attachment, was present in most species apart from three showing relatively weak attachment by microspines. This indicates that diverse microspine attachment strategies exist in climbing plants. This diversity of functional properties offers a range of potential design specifications for climbing strategies on different substrates for artificial climbing artefacts. International audience
ZENODO; Journal of E... arrow_drop_down ZENODO; Journal of Experimental BotanyOther literature type . Article . 2023 . 2022 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYHAL Descartes; Mémoires en Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication; HAL-IRDArticle . 2022License: CC BYFull-Text: https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03764436/documentadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routeshybrid 3 citations 3 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!visibility 11visibility views 11 download downloads 15 Powered bymore_vert ZENODO; Journal of E... arrow_drop_down ZENODO; Journal of Experimental BotanyOther literature type . Article . 2023 . 2022 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYHAL Descartes; Mémoires en Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication; HAL-IRDArticle . 2022License: CC BYFull-Text: https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03764436/documentadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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