Engineering design of fluid-filled soft covers for robotic contact interfaces: Guidelines, nonlinear modeling, and experimental validation

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 436-449

  Berselli, Giovanni ^a   Piccinini, Marco ^b   Palli, Gianluca ^c   Vassura, Gabriele ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Finite deformations; finite element analysis (FEA); hyperelasticity; quasi linear model; viscoelastic contact

Indexed keywords

FINITE DEFORMATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS (FEA); HYPER-ELASTICITY; QUASI-LINEAR MODEL; VISCOELASTIC CONTACT;

BIOMIMETICS; CURVE FITTING; DAMPING; DEFORMATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FLUIDS; ROBOTICS; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; TISSUE;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 79958772997     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2011.2132970     Document Type: Article

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