Electroactive Polymer Gel Robots: Modelling and Control of Artifical Muscles
โ Scribed by Mihoko Otake (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 244
- Series
- Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics 59
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
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.
โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages -
Introduction....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Adsorption-Induced Deformation Model of Electroactive Polymer Gel....Pages 19-33
Parameter Identification by One Point Observation....Pages 35-60
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Interaction-Based Design of Deformable Machines....Pages 63-76
Spatially-Varying Electric Field Design by Planer Electrodes....Pages 77-116
Shape Design through Geometric Variation....Pages 117-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Polarity Reversal Method for Shape Control....Pages 137-164
Lumped-Driven Method for Motion Control....Pages 165-199
Conclusion and Future Works....Pages 201-216
Back Matter....Pages -
โฆ Subjects
Control , Robotics, Mechatronics; Polymer Sciences; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Systems Theory, Control; Biomedical Engineering
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