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  1. A Reconfigurable Fabric Based Pneumatic Actuator with Button Fastened Constraint Modules for Multi Mode Actuation

    Oct 8, 2026Kentaro Kimura, Hiroki Ishizuka, Yusuke Sakaue +2Soft Pneumatic ActuatorsSoft Robotics

    Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Osaka 560-0043, Japan

  2. TO-mdiSPAs: Topology Optimization of multi-directional Soft Pneumatic Actuators

    Sep 30, 2026Swagatam Islam Sarkar, Prabhat KumarTopology OptimizationSoft Pneumatic Actuators

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Telangana-502284, India

  3. Task-space model-based control of pneumatic soft actuators

    Aug 27, 2026Nithin S. Kumar, Joshua Gaston, D. Caleb Rucker +1Robotic ControlSoft Robotics

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235 · Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996

  4. Control-Oriented Learning for Dynamic Tracking and Stability Analysis of Soft Pneumatic Actuators

    Aug 25, 2026Nithin S. Kumar, Eric J. BarthExtended Dynamic Mode DecompositionSoft Pneumatic Actuators

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 37215

  5. Pneumatic Units for Logic-based Sequential Excitation (PULSE) in Wearable Haptic Devices

    Aug 20, 2026Jessica Healey, Anoush Sepehri, Michael T. Tolley +1Pneumatic ActuationSoft Pneumatic Actuators

    University of California, San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093, USA

  6. A Task-Agnostic Control Strategy for Dynamic Assistance with Pneumatically Actuated Soft Exosuits

    Aug 18, 2026Anoush Sepehri, Zachary Huang, Raymond de Callafon +2Assistive RoboticsUpper-Limb Exoskeletons

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA 92093, USA

  7. Manufacturing Complex Airtight Soft Pneumatic Actuators for Soft Robotics: Process Evaluation and Optimization

    Aug 13, 2026Mohammed AbboodiManufacturingSoft Pneumatic Actuators

  8. Intuitive Hand Positional Guidance Using McKibben-Based Surface Tactile Sensations to Shoulder and Elbow

    Aug 10, 2026Kenta Yokoe, Yuki Funabora, Tadayoshi AoyamaHaptic FeedbackSoft Pneumatic Actuators

    Department of Micro-Nano Mechanical Science and Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8603, Japan · Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, 102-0083, Japan · Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8603, Japan +2

  9. Fabric Pneumatic Artificial Muscles Based on the Drawstring Principle

    Jul 21, 2026Chendong Liu, Dapeng Yang, Yiming Dai +2Soft Pneumatic ActuatorsSoft Robotics

    State Key Laboratory of Robotics and Systems, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China.

  10. Towards Soft Robotic Exogloves for Musculoskeletal Manipulation to Reduce Pain and Spasticity

    Jul 8, 2026Antonia Salluce, Maeryn Erdheim, Gailen Davis +3Soft Pneumatic ActuatorsAssistive Robotics

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1 Castle Point Terrace, Hoboken, NJ, 07030, USA · Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1 Castle Point Terrace, Hoboken, NJ, 07030, USA

  11. Soft Pneumatic Actuators for Soft Robotics: A Motion-Based Review of Actuation Mechanisms and Performance Trade-offs

    May 24, 2026Mohammed AbboodiSoft Pneumatic ActuatorsSoft Robotics

  12. Analytical and Experimental Force Analysis of a Soft Linear Pneumatic Actuator

    May 21, 2026Mohammed AbboodiSoft Pneumatic ActuatorsSoft Robotics

  13. Modeling and Control of a Pneumatic Morphing Soft Quadrotor based on the SOFA Framework for Dynamic Soft Robotic Simulation

    May 20, 2026F. Labra Caso, V. Sumathy, P. Ferrentino +3Aerial RoboticsRobotics Simulation

    Robotics & AI Luleå University of Technology · IMEC Center VUB Brussels University

  14. Topology-Optimized Pneumatic Soft Actuator: Design and Experimental Validation

    May 19, 2026Sumit Mehta, Konstantinos PouliosTopology OptimizationSoft Pneumatic Actuators

    Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

  15. BiPneu: Design and Control of a Bipolar-Pressure Pneumatic System for Soft Robots

    May 12, 2026Yu Mei, Xinyu Zhou, Vedant Naik +2Robotic ControlRobust Control

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

  16. Elastomeric Strain Limitation for Design of Soft Pneumatic Actuators

    Apr 3, 2026Gregory M. CampbellSoft Pneumatic ActuatorsSoft Robotics

    Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania

  17. Design, Modelling and Characterisation of a Miniature Fibre-Reinforced Soft Bending Actuator for Endoluminal Interventions

    Mar 25, 2026Xiangyi Tan, Aoife McDonald-Bowyer, Danail Stoyanov +1Soft Pneumatic ActuatorsSoft Robotics

    All authors are with the UCL Hawkes Institute, University College London, WC1E 6BT, UK.

  18. Inductance-Based Force Self-Sensing in Fiber-Reinforced Pneumatic Twisted-and-Coiled Actuators

    Mar 19, 2026Yunsong Zhang, Tianlin Li, Mingyang Yang +1Soft Pneumatic ActuatorsSoft Robotics

    Robotics and Control Laboratory, School of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, and the State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex Systems, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

  19. Multi-Mode Pneumatic Artificial Muscles Driven by Hybrid Positive-Negative Pressure

    Mar 16, 2026Siyuan Feng, Ruoyu Feng, Shuguang LiPneumatic ActuationSoft Pneumatic Actuators

    Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China. · Beijing Key Laboratory of Transformative High-end Manufacturing Equipment and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.

  20. Fabric Pneumatic Artificial Muscle-Based Head-Neck Exosuit: Design, Modeling, and Evaluation

    Mar 13, 2026Katalin Schäffer, Ian Bales, Haohan Zhang +1Soft Pneumatic ActuatorsAssistive Robotics

    Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA. · Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, 1083 Budapest, Hungary. · Department of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA.

  21. Geometry-based pneumatic actuators for soft robotics

    Feb 27, 2026Rui Chen, Daniele Leonardis, Domenico Chiaradia +1Soft Pneumatic ActuatorsPneumatic Actuation

    Institute of Mechanical Intelligence, School of Advanced Studies Sant’Anna (SSSA), 56127 Pisa, Italy.

  22. Physics-Embedded Neural ODEs for Learning Antagonistic Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Dynamics

    Feb 27, 2026Xinyao Wang, Jonathan RealmutoPneumatic ActuationSoft Pneumatic Actuators

    Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA

  23. Snapping Actuators with Asymmetric and Sequenced Motion

    Feb 20, 2026Xin Li, Ye Jin, Mohsen Jafarpour +2Pneumatic ActuationSoft Robotics

  24. Design and Characterization of a Dual-DOF Soft Shoulder Exosuit with Volume-Optimized Pneumatic Actuator

    Feb 20, 2026Rui Chen, Domenico Chiaradia, Daniele Leonardis +1Pneumatic ActuationUpper-Limb Exoskeletons

    The authors are with the Institute of Mechanical Intelligence and Department of Excellence in Robotics & AI, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA), 56127 Pisa, Italy

  25. Soft Pneumatic Grippers: Topology optimization, 3D-printing and Experimental validation

    Nov 24, 2025Prabhat Kumar, Chandra Prakash, Josh Pinskier +2Topology OptimizationMechanism Design

    Department Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. India Institute of Technology Hyderbad, Telangana 502285, India · CSIRO Robotics, Pullenvale, QLD 4069, Australia · Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 2, Delft, 2628CD, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands