Review of Soft Robot

Abstract:

Robot technology is widely applicated in fields such as industral manufacture, medical service, exploration and exploitation, bio engineering, rescue, etc. Traditional robots have rigid underlying structures that limit their ability to interact with their environment. Soft robots are the novel bionic continuum robots, which can change their own size and shape in large range and have great potentials in the unstructured enviroment. This paper presents a review about the bionic mechaism, driving mode, modeling and control strategy for soft bodied robots. Some bottlenecks constraints and feasible solutions of soft robot technology are also summarized by means of analysis and classification. Finally, the trends in robot technology are investigated.

Key words:soft robot; bionic mechanism; driving mode; model; control strategy