Electroactive Polymer Gel Robots Modelling and Control of Artifical Muscles /

• Main Author: Otake, Mihoko (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, 59
• Subjects: Engineering.; Polymers.; Artificial intelligence.; System theory.; Control engineering.; Robotics.; Mechatronics.; Automation.; Biomedical engineering.; Robotics and Automation.; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics.; Polymer Sciences.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Systems Theory, Control.; Biomedical Engineering.
• Physical Description: 250 p. 177 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540447054
• ISSN: 1610-7438 ;

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.