Electroactive Polymer Gel Robots
Modelling and Control of Artifical Muscles
Part of the Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics book series (STAR, volume 59)
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About this book
Introduction
The monograph written by Mihoko Otake combines ideas from chemistry and physics, material science and engineering for the revolutionary development of the so-called gel robots. Electroactive polymers are introduced to build new types of muscular-like actuation for deformable robots. The coverage spans from modelling and design to the development, control and experimental testing. A number of methods are proposed for describing the shapes and motions of such systems. The results are demonstrated for beam-shaped gels curling around an object and starfish-shaped gel robots turning over.
Keywords
Design of Deformable Machines Modelling of Functional Materials Motion Control Polymer Polymer Gel Shape Control robot
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44705-4
- Copyright Information Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
- Publisher Name Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
- eBook Packages Engineering
- Print ISBN 978-3-540-23955-0
- Online ISBN 978-3-540-44705-4
- Series Print ISSN 1610-7438
- Series Online ISSN 1610-742X
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