Abstract: Fluid filled fiber reinforced elastomeric enclosures (FREEs) have been a popular choice for actuators in prosthetics and soft robots owing to their high power density and cost effective manufacturing. While a narrow class ...

Abstract: Load flow visualization, which is an important step in structural and machine assembly design may aid in the analysis and eventual synthesis of compliant mechanisms. In this paper, we present a kinetostatic formulation to ...

Abstract: Compliant mechanisms with evenly distributed stresses have better loadbearing ability and larger range of motion than mechanisms with compliance and stresses lumped at flexural hinges. In this paper, we present a metric ...

Abstract: A typographical error first appearing in Eq. (A8) was cut and pasted into Eqs. (A10) and (A14). This error appears only in these equations as written in Appendix A.3. It does not affect the code used, results reported, or ...

Abstract: Fiber-reinforced elastomeric enclosures (FREEs) generate sophisticated motions, when pressurized, including axial rotation, extension, and compression, and serve as fundamental building blocks for soft robots in a variety ...