Publications de Juan Manuel Florez Marin

Soft Pneumatic Actuator Fascicles for High Force and Reliability

Jamie Paik, Matthew Aaron Robertson, Juan Manuel Florez Marin, Hamed Sadeghi

Soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) are found in mobile robots, assistive wearable devices, and rehabilitative technologies. While soft actuators have been one of the most crucial elements of technology leading the development of the soft robotics field, they ...

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc2017

Modeling, Design, and Development of Soft Pneumatic Actuators with Finite Element Method

William Curtin, Jamie Paik, Philip Arthur Moseley, Harshal Arun Sonar, Gunjan Agarwal, Juan Manuel Florez Marin

This work presents a comprehensive open-source simulation and design tool for Soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) using finite element method, compatible and extensible to a diverse range of soft materials and design parameters. Thorough characterization of th ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Rehabilitative Soft Exoskeleton for Rodents

Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Jamie Paik, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Joachim von Zitzewitz, Sophie Marie Marthe Wurth, Rubia van den Brand, Juan Manuel Florez Marin, Laetitia Danielle Philippine Baud, Manan Kishore Shah

Robotic exoskeletons provide programmable, consistent and controllable active therapeutic assistance to patients with neurological disorders. Here we introduce a prototype and preliminary experimental evaluation of a rehabilitative gait exoskeleton that en ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Soft Pneumatic Actuators for Legged Locomotion

Jamie Paik, Juan Manuel Florez Marin, Yixin Bai, Benjamin Shih

Search and rescue robots are being used more frequently to access hazardous environments to assess situations and locate survivors. There are a wide range of existing mobile platforms for various situations and environments, but these robots are typically ...

2014