All dataset and codes are shared publically here

2021

  1. Seppe Terryn, Jakob Langenbach , Ellen Roels, Joost Brancart,Camille Bakkali-Hassani, Quentin-Arthur Poutrel, Antonia Georgopoulou, Thomas George Thuruthel, Ali Safaei, Pasquale Ferrentino, Tutu Sebastian, Sophie Norvez, Fumiya Iida, Anton W. Bosman, François Tournilhac, Frank Clemens, Guy Van Assche, Bram Vanderborght (2021) A review on self-healing materials for soft robotics. ‘Materials Today’ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2021.01.009
  2. Thomas George Thuruthel, G. Picardi, F. Iida, C. Laschi and M. Calisti Learning to stop: a unifying principle for legged locomotion in varying environments. Royal Society Publications
  3. D. Hardman, J. Hughes, T. G. Thuruthel, K. Gilday and F. Iida, “3D Printable Sensorized Soft Gelatin Hydrogel for Multi-Material Soft Structures,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 5269-5275, July 2021, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2021.3072600. PDF version.
  4. Costi, L., George Thuruthel, T., & Iida, F. Topological Study on the Design of Soft Strain Sensors for Simultaneous Multi-point Contact Localization. RoboSoft 2021. Poster – PDF version.
  5. T. G. Thuruthel, J. Hughes, A. Georgopoulou, F. Clemens and F. Iida, “Using Redundant and Disjoint Time-Variant Soft Robotic Sensors for Accurate Static State Estimation,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 2099-2105, April 2021, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2021.3061399. PDF version.
  6. Moazzen, K., Rossegger, E., Alabiso, W., Shaukat, U., & Schlögl, S. (2021). Role of Organic Phosphates and Phosphonates in Catalyzing Dynamic Exchange Reactions in Thiol‐Click Vitrimers. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 2100072. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/macp.202100072.
  7. S. Terryn, J. Brancart, E. Roels, G. Van Assche and B. Vanderborght, “Room Temperature Self-Healing in Soft Pneumatic Robotics: Autonomous Self-Healing in a Diels-Alder Polymer Network,” in IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 44-55, Dec. 2020, doi: 10.1109/MRA.2020.3024275.
  8. Safaei, A.; Terryn, S.; Vanderborght, B.; Van Assche, G.; Brancart, J. The Influence of the Furan and Maleimide Stoichiometry on the Thermoreversible Diels–Alder Network Polymerization. Polymers 2021, 13, 2522. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym13152522
  9. Georgopoulou, A.; Bosman, A.W.; Brancart, J.; Vanderborght, B.; Clemens, F. Supramolecular Self-Healing Sensor Fiber Composites for Damage Detection in Piezoresistive Electronic Skin for Soft Robots. Polymers 2021, 13, 2983. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym13172983
  10. Lipase-Catalyzed EpoxyAcid Addition and Transesterification : from Model Molecule Studies to Network Build-Up C. Bakkali-Hassani, Q.-A. Poutrel, J. Langenbach, S. Chappuis, J.J. Blaker, M. Gresil, F. Tournilhac Biomacromolecules, asap, DOI:10.1021/acs.biomac.1c00820
  11. Epoxy homopolymerization as a tool to tune the thermo-mechanical properties and fracture toughness of vitrimers K. Tangthana-umrung, Q.-A. Poutrel, M. Gresil Macromolecules 2021, 54, 18, 8393–8406, DOI:10.1021/acs.macromol.1c00861

2020

  1. Roels, E., Terryn, S., Brancart, J., Verhelle, R., Van Assche, G., & Vanderborght, B. (2020). Additive Manufacturing for Self-Healing Soft Robots. Soft Robotics.
  2. Shih, B., Shah, D., Li, J.,  Thuruthel,  T.  G., Iida, F., Park, Y.  L., Bao,  Z.,Kramer, R., & Tolley, M. T. (2019).  Electronic Skins and Machine Learning for Intelligent Soft Robots. Science Robotics 
  3. Thuruthel, T. G., Gilday K., & Iida, F. (2020). Drift-Free Latent Space Representation for Soft Strain Sensors. IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics. 
  4. Terryn, S.; Roels, E.; Brancart, J.; Assche, G.V.; Vanderborght, B. Self-Healing and High Interfacial Strength in Multi-Material Soft Pneumatic Robots via Reversible Diels–Alder Bonds. Actuators 2020, 9, 34.
  5. George Thuruthel, T., Hughes, J., & Iida, F. Joint Entropy-based Morphology Optimization of Soft Strain SensorNetworks for Functional Robustness. IEEE Sensors Journal
  6. Georgopoulou A. and Clemens F. (2020) Piezoresistive Elastomer-Based Composite Strain Sensors and Their Applications. ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2, 7, 1826–1842.
  7. Georgopoulou A., Sebastian T., Clemens F. (2020) Thermoplastic elastomer composite filaments for strain sensing applications extruded with a fused deposition modelling 3D printer. Flexible and Printed Electronics, 5, 035002
  8. Georgopoulou A., Kummerlöwe C., Clemens F. (2020) Effect of the Elastomer Matrix on Thermoplastic Elastomer-Based Strain Sensor Fiber Composites. Sensors, 20(8), 2399 
  9. George Thuruthel T, Renda F and Iida F (2020) First-Order Dynamic Modeling and Control of Soft Robots. Front. Robot. AI 7:95. doi: 10.3389/frobt.2020.00095
  10. Quentin-Arthur Poutrel, Jonny J. Blaker, Constantinos Soutis, François Tournilhac and Matthieu Gresil (2020) Dicarboxylic acid-epoxy vitrimers: influence of the off-stoichiometric acid content on cure reactions and thermo-mechanical properties. Polymer Chemistry, 11, 33, 5289-5398.

Previous Publications

  1. Terryn, S., Brancart, J., Lefeber, D., Van Assche, G. and Vanderborght, B., 2017. Self-healing soft pneumatic robots. Science Robotics, 2(9), p.eaan4268.
  2. Roels, E., Terryn, S., Brancart, J., Van Assche, G., & Vanderborght, B. (2019, April). A Multi-Material Self-Healing Soft Gripper. In 2019 2nd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) (pp. 316-321). IEEE.
  3. Denissen, W., Droesbeke, M., Nicolaÿ, R., Leibler, L., Winne, J.M. and Du Prez, F.E., 2017. Chemical control of the viscoelastic properties of vinylogous urethane vitrimers. Nature communications, 8, p.14857.
  4. Hughes, Josie, and Fumiya Iida. “Tactile sensing applied to the universal gripper using conductive thermoplastic elastomer.” Soft robotics 5.5 (2018): 512-526.
  5. Cordier, P., Tournilhac, F., Soulié-Ziakovic, C. and Leibler, L., 2008. Self-healing and thermoreversible rubber from supramolecular assembly. Nature, 451(7181), p.977.
  6. Montarnal, D., Capelot, M., Tournilhac, F. and Leibler, L., 2011. Silica-like malleable materials from permanent organic networks. Science, 334(6058), pp.965-968.
  7. Culha, U., Nurzaman, S., Clemens, F. and Iida, F., 2014. SVAS3: strain vector aided sensorization of soft structures. Sensors, 14(7), pp.12748-12770.
  8. Mattmann, C., Clemens, F. and Tröster, G., 2008. Sensor for measuring strain in textile. Sensors, 8(6), pp.3719-3732.
  9. Clemens, F.J., Koll, B., Graule, T., Watras, T., Binkowski, M., Mattmann, C. and Silveira, I., 2013. Development of piezoresistive fiber sensors, based on carbon black filled thermoplastic elastomer compounds, for textile application. In Advances in Science and Technology (Vol. 80, pp. 7-13). Trans Tech Publications.
  10. Terryn, S., Mathijssen, G., Brancart, J., Lefeber, D., Van Assche, G., & Vanderborght, B. (2015). Development of a self-healing soft pneumatic actuator: A first concept. Bioinspiration & biomimetics, 10(4), 046007.
  11. Terryn, S., Mathijssen, G., Brancart, J., Verstraten, T., Van Assche, G., & Vanderborght, B. (2016). Toward self-healing actuators: A preliminary concept. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 32(3), 736-743.