Future industrial systems require humans and robots to work together safely and intuitively to optimize the production of goods. As a team, humans provide skills, experience, and knowledge, while robots offer physical assistance and take care of the performance of repetitive tasks at high speed. While this human-robot collaboration can minimize companies’ response time to changes in supply or demand, several safety concerns need to be addressed before human operators can safely work near industrial robots. Soft robots, fabricated using elastic and compliant materials, have been developed to become intrinsically safe to human co-workers and to provide different manipulation approaches that exploit the deformability of the robot to enhance robotic dexterity while interacting with delicate and brittle materials. These soft robotic systems, however, required the development of new flexible sensors and control methods to achieve the accuracy of existing industrial robots. This chapter describes the development of soft robotic industrial systems. First, the design principles and manufacturing methods to create dexterous soft robots will be reviewed. Next, the main modeling and control methods used to implement soft robots in industrial environments will be described. Finally, current soft robotics challenges and emerging industrial applications for soft cyber-physical systems will be analyzed.
Soft Robotic Industrial Systems
Automation,Collaboration,E-Services
International Conference on Production Research ; 2021 ; Taichung, Taiwan July 18, 2021 - July 21, 2021
2023-10-18
19 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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