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Soft-Bodied Aerial Robot
Perching highlights the ability for aerial robots to save energy and maintain a vantage position for monitoring or surveillance. Existing aerial robots coordinate perching mechanisms and flight dynamics to achieve perching. However, there is often a dissociation between controlled collision and dynamic perching in existing designs of aerial robots,...
Published: 2/23/2023   |   Inventor(s): Wenlong Zhang, Karishma Patnaik, Pham Nguyen, Shatadal Mishra, Panagiotis Polygerinos
Keywords(s): Robotics
Category(s): Physical Science, Manufacturing/Construction/Mechanical
Untethered Knit Fabric Soft Continuum Robotic Module with Embedded Fabric Sensing
Background With interest in soft robotics on the rise, there have been extensive studies on soft materials, actuation, control, sensing, and even soft pneumatic pumps and valves. Soft robotic systems have the advantages of being lightweight, highly compliant, articulate, and inherently safe for interactions with human body and environment. Soft continuum...
Published: 2/23/2023   |   Inventor(s): Wenlong Zhang, Pham Nguyen, Zhi Qiao, Sam Seidel, Imran Mohd, Sunny Amatya
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Category(s): Physical Science, Manufacturing/Construction/Mechanical
Fabric-Reinforced Textile Actuators (FRTAs) for a Soft Robotic Hand
Background Soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) have been a cornerstone of soft robotics for various applications such as mobile and assistive devices. SPAs are generally lightweight with a high power-to-weight ratio, inexpensive to fabricate, compliant, and can safely interact with the user and surrounding environment. Motions enabled by SPAs include combinations...
Published: 2/23/2023   |   Inventor(s): Pham Nguyen, Wenlong Zhang, Panagiotis Polygerinos, Francisco Lopez Arellano
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Category(s): Physical Science, Manufacturing/Construction/Mechanical
Soft Wearable Device to Treat Plantar Flexion Contractures
Plantar flexion contracture (PFC), a painful condition where the ankle remains in a plantar flexed state, is common in patients who have suffered from traumatic brain injury, acquired brain injury or stroke. PFC makes it difficult for patients to walk, reduces their range of motion and causes gait changes. Current treatments for PFC, serial casts made...
Published: 9/18/2023   |   Inventor(s): Benjamin Shuch, Chaitanya Kulkarni, Sudhanshu Katarey, Harshit Dangaich, Saivimal Sridar, Pham Nguyen, Thomas Sugar
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Category(s): Life Science (All LS Techs), Manufacturing/Construction/Mechanical, Medical Devices
Soft Wearable Device to Aid in Hemiparetic Gait
Hemiparesis, which is muscle weakness or partial paralysis on one side of the body, affects about 8 out of 10 stroke survivors, resulting in reduced motor performance which can include difficulty walking or grasping items. Gait training has been found to improve muscular strength and movement coordination. While there are many devices to help with lower-limb...
Published: 2/23/2023   |   Inventor(s): Abhishu Patel, Ryan Borneman, Omik Save, Yashaswy Govada, Saivimal Sridar, Pham Nguyen, Thomas Sugar, Ammon Lovell
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Category(s): Life Science (All LS Techs), Manufacturing/Construction/Mechanical, Medical Devices
Assistive Device for Patients with Somatosensory Impairment in the hands
Patients with neurological conditions, particularly stroke patients, often suffer from somatosensory impairment, or loss of feeling, in their hands. Because they can’t gauge the force of their grip, they have difficulty picking up items and may inadvertently crush or drop them, causing embarrassment and reduced quality of life. While there are...
Published: 2/23/2023   |   Inventor(s): Luis Lopez, Lee Griffith, Robin Parmentier, Thomas Sugar, Saivimal Sridar, Pham Nguyen, Jeremy Palmiscno, Will Meredith
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Category(s): Life Science (All LS Techs), Manufacturing/Construction/Mechanical, Medical Devices, Medical Diagnostics/Sensors
Thermoplastic Polyesters Made From Biorenewable Feedstocks
Replaces Polyethylene Terephthalate in Multiple and Single-use Plastic Product ManufacturingThese biorenewable polyesters can replace polyethylene terephthalate (PET) to produce versatile plastic products including packaging, films, fibers and single-use beverage bottles. PET is a common commodity plastic currently comprising 13 percent of all plastic...
Published: 6/27/2021   |   Inventor(s): Stephen Miller, Ha Nguyen, Gabriel Short
Keywords(s): Bio Renewable, biosuccinic acid, polybutylene dimethoxyterephthalate, polydecylene dihydroxyterephthalate, polydecylene dimethoxyterephthalate, Polyester, polyethylene dihydroxyterephthalate, polyethylene dimethoxyterephthalate, Polyethylene Terephthalate, polyheptylene dimethoxyterephthalate, polyhexylene dihydroxyterephthalate, polyhexylene dimethoxyterephthalate, polynonylene dimethoxyterephthalate, polyoctylene dihydroxyterephthalate, polyoctylene dimethoxyterephthalate, polypentylene dimethoxyterephthalate, polypropylene dimethoxyterephthalate, Succinic acid, thermoplastic
Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering > Chemical, Technology Classifications > Engineering > Materials, Technology Classifications > Others > Cleantech
Soft Poly-Limbs: a New Paradigm of Mobile Manipulation for Daily Living Tasks
Background Prosthetic limbs are devices widely in use to remedy the impairment of functionality that results from the loss of a patient’s limb. Additionally, exoskeletons are “wearable robots” that provide a shell around the body and act as a bodily extension, increasing safety and functionality. These machines are frequently utilized...
Published: 2/23/2023   |   Inventor(s): Panagiotis Polygerinos, Pham Nguyen
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Category(s): Applied Technologies, Medical Devices, Physical Science, Physics, Manufacturing/Construction/Mechanical