Laser Pouch Motors: Selective and Wireless Activation of Soft Actuators by Laser-Powered Liquid-to-Gas Phase Change

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العنوان: Laser Pouch Motors: Selective and Wireless Activation of Soft Actuators by Laser-Powered Liquid-to-Gas Phase Change
المؤلفون: Yoshihiro Kawahara, Noriaki Kida, Ryuma Niiyama, Koya Narumi, Ken-ichi Nakahara, Naoki Takamura, Takefumi Hiraki, Hiroshi Okamoto
المصدر: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 5:4180-4187
بيانات النشر: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020.
سنة النشر: 2020
مصطلحات موضوعية: 0209 industrial biotechnology, Control and Optimization, business.industry, Computer science, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical engineering, Soft robotics, 02 engineering and technology, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Laser, Computer Science Applications, law.invention, Human-Computer Interaction, 020901 industrial engineering & automation, Artificial Intelligence, Control and Systems Engineering, law, Wireless, Robot, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 0210 nano-technology, business, Actuator
الوصف: Untethered control of soft-bodied robots is attractive for interactions in a variety of unstructured and dynamic environments. However, soft robotics systems are currently limited in terms of wireless, selective, and scalable control of multiple actuators. Therefore, we propose a method to wirelessly drive multiple soft actuators by laser projection. A small amount of low-boiling-point liquid inside a planar thin pouch can be heated by a laser and evaporated to inflate the whole body. Laser projection enables both wireless energy supply and the selection of target actuators. Further, the low-boiling-point liquid serves as an actuation source and as a receiver of laser irradiation. Thus, we do not need additional components such as electric circuits and batteries to achieve simple and scalable implementation of multiple soft actuators. We evaluated the mechanical properties and demonstrated that the system can wirelessly control the gestures of fingers of a robot hand. We also verified that our method can activate a group of mobile soft robots simultaneously and individually while tracking the actuator positions. Our approach contributes to the scalable deployment of soft robotic systems by removing tethers for power and communication.
تدمد: 2377-3774
DOI: 10.1109/lra.2020.2982864
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::2dca17846385b8f2d51a0ccaa0f44e2f
https://doi.org/10.1109/lra.2020.2982864
Rights: CLOSED
رقم الانضمام: edsair.doi...........2dca17846385b8f2d51a0ccaa0f44e2f
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE
الوصف
تدمد:23773774
DOI:10.1109/lra.2020.2982864