Continuously-deformable and stiffness-tunable soft manipulator achieving unmanned COVID-19 pandemic sampling

Junshi Zhang; Lei Liu; Mingliang Zhu; Dichen Li; Jian Lu

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e13731

Continuously-deformable and stiffness-tunable soft manipulator achieving unmanned COVID-19 pandemic sampling

Junshi Zhang (Co-first Author), Lei Liu^* (Co-first Author), Mingliang Zhu, Dichen Li, Jian Lu^*

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Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Abstract

In recent years, COVID-19 has spread across the whole world, and manpowered collection of pharyngeal samples undoubtedly increases the possibility of cross-infections. In this article, based on our previous fabricated soft manipulator (Cell Reports Physical Science, 2021, 2, 100600), we performed the COVID-19 sampling on real human volunteers by exploiting a pre-programmed unmanned system. The unmanned sampling system mainly includes a soft manipulator and a rigid motion platform, which are adjusted by pneumatic control box and the motor control modules, respectively. Drawn on the lead-through teaching method, the unmanned sampling of COVID-19 is realized by recording the applied pressure in soft manipulator and the feed motion of rigid platform. This research provides a potential approach for unmanned COVID-19 sampling, solving the risk of cross-infection during manual collection. © 2023 The Authors.

Original language	English
Article number	e13731
Journal	Heliyon
Volume	9
Issue number	2
Online published	14 Feb 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e13731
Publication status	Published - Feb 2023

Research Keywords

COVID-19
Lead-through teaching
Soft manipulator
Unmanned sampling

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