..., “The Bouncing Motion Appearing in a Robotic System With Unilateral Constraint,” Nonlinear Dyn., 49(1–2), 217–232 ] is developed, in which a two-link robotic system comes into contact with a moving rail. The experimental results show that a tangential impact exists at the contact point and takes a peculiar...

... the actuator to expand radially and, due to the fiber constraint, contract longitudinally. This contraction provides a large force that can be used for robotic actuation. Based on large deformation membrane theory, the actuator is modeled as a fiber-reinforced cylinder with applied inner pressure and axial...

...T. G. Barnes; T. Q. Truong; G. G. Adams, Fellow ASME; N. E. McGruer Lobsters use their antennae to navigate among obstacles along the ocean floor. Effective ambulation requires that the lobster, or a biomimetic lobster robot whose behavior is patterned after a real lobster, must distinguish between...