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
Authors and affiliations
- 1.Research into Artifacts, Center for EngineeringUniversity of TokyoKashiwa-shiJapan
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