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  • Robotics and Soft Matter Physics
  • Sensorless Estimation in Soft Actuators

Background:

  • Soft robots require sensing for compliance and complex movements, with current methods relying on embedded extrinsic sensors.
  • The intrinsic sensing capabilities of soft robots, particularly pneumatically powered ones, remain largely unexplored.
  • Sensorless estimation, leveraging inherent system properties, offers a potential alternative to traditional sensing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and investigate sensorless estimation for pneumatically powered soft actuators.
  • To demonstrate the use of intrinsic pressure and volume properties for estimating output force and displacement.
  • To explore the benefits of combining sensorless estimation with conventional embedded sensors.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a sensorless estimation approach for pneumatically powered soft actuators.
  • Utilized intrinsic properties of pressure and volume to infer actuator performance.
  • Tested the method on a bending actuator under various conditions and compared with embedded sensor data.

Main Results:

  • Achieved force and displacement estimation errors below 10% and 15% respectively, even under novel test conditions.
  • Demonstrated that combining sensorless estimation with embedded sensors improves accuracy through redundancy.
  • Successfully modeled soft actuators as intrinsic sensors.

Conclusions:

  • Pneumatically powered soft actuators possess intrinsic sensing capabilities exploitable via sensorless estimation.
  • This method provides a new, easily implementable sensing modality for soft robots.
  • Sensorless estimation enhances the understanding and control of complex soft robot behaviors.